There’s a lot to like about Firefox 2 but there are a few changes that long-time users such as me are finding quite annoying. The new default theme looks consistently bad across platforms (and particularly so in Mac OS X). Fortunately, designers Kevin Gerich and Stephen Horlander have updated the venerable Firefox 1.x default themes Pinstripe (Mac OS X) and Winstripe (Windows) for use in Firefox 2. Secondly, the Find As You Type search bar has been pointlessly “simplified”. Once again the customisability of Firefox comes into its own here, and it’s simply a matter of inserting the following line into your local userchrome.css file.
/* Use the old-style / and ‘ QuickFind Bar behaviour */
#FindToolbar > * {display:-moz-box}
Later on I also noticed that there was a tendency for the OK button in the Open File dialogue box to be greyed out when trying to download ZIP files and PDFs. It turns out that this is a bug associated with a corrupted mimeTypes.rdf file on your system (bug 264492).
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