My Firefox bookmarks sort to folders before files when I sort by name. They have always done so.

You must have an extension that is doing that. It’s not the default nature of Firefox’s bookmarks.

I would also like to enable extensions without re-starting but it is not usually an issue. It only matters when I want to use the extension straight away.

What people don’t realize is that the quality of the themes is really bad. 90% of the Firefox themes don’t look like Web 2.0 themes should be: sleek, polished, unobtrusive, uncluttered. For stunning themes Opera beats Firefox, hands down! Maxthon also has better looking themes!

Thank you! Now I don’t feel like I’m crazy for wanting a good looking theme. Although I believe that Opera’s theme has also worn out it’s welcome since it has been around for several versions. I think Flock’s is very good, and Internet Explorer 7’s is pretty slick on Vista with the transparency.

Someone else had mentioned that above, and I try to minimize the number of extensions that I use. It’s not something that I use enough to justify installing an extension, but I would use it once or twice a week probably.

What people don’t realize is that the quality of the themes is really bad. 90% of the Firefox themes don’t look like Web 2.0 themes should be: sleek, polished, unobtrusive, uncluttered. For stunning themes Opera beats Firefox, hands down! Maxthon also has better looking themes!

What I would like in Firefox is not a new feature but a more responsive menu and interface. In opera the switch from one tab to another or selecting a menu item is done instantaneously — in Opera 9.5 this has been improved even more (even though there was no need for speed improvement!)

I agree with you on #5. That was something I loved about Opera.

That’s one of the reasons it was kind of fun trying out themes in Opera. You never had to restart to see what it actually looked like.

They’ve already got that in there…there is always a restart button on the add-ons screen now instead of just after installing an extension.

And I do know about clearing your private data, but sometimes I only want to remove items from particular sites. The example that I gave was while doing my finances I don’t want any cookies to be stored or pages to be cached. A button to disable those features on a temporary basis would therefore be nice…without needing an extension.

Thanks for pointing out the Personal Menu restart option though, that is pretty nice. I didn’t know it had that feature.

Anyways, here are my replies to your 5:
1. I agree completely. I usually just alphabetize and then throw it on manual to put the folders back where they need to be.

2. True, as well…though with some chrome hacks it’s fairly easy to do this.

3. As Andrew pointed out, there are hundreds of themes for Firefox…<_<

4. Stealther extension FTW. Also you can just do the Clear Private data thing…that lets you selectively kill what you do and don’t want to delete.

5. Agreed for the most part…but ultimately since I have a restart button and I usually only have like 5-10 tabs open at a time, restarting doesn’t really bug me.

My 5 would be:
1. make it not such a big RAM hog
2. toolbar customization. I think it’s easier to move buttons and crap around than it is in Opera…but Opera definitely kicks Firefox’s ass when it comes to where you want certain toolbars to appear.
3. SPEED DIAL . Never gonna happen, especially since there’s already an extension…but whatever.

And I can’t think of much else….