This new benchmark shows that native linux version of Firefox is very slow comparing to Windows version, even when run on Wine.

Based on idea 5321, by Eldmannen (about removing yahoo).

We should remove ebay from the default installed searches, because:
- It reduces competition with other auction sites.
- Recently there was a uproar about changes in ebay which make in some case make it unfair. I agree!
- Ebay VERY heavily pushes Paypal, which is acknowledged by many to be very dodgy. A lot of people know someone who has been screwed by ebay. And here in aus, I had to upgrade my account because they had a bug which prevented me accessing my money (which is very unprofessional). The freenet Project owner was also screwed by ebay (and it demonstrated they don't research at all claims made against customers), and another friend of mine was charged 2x the amount he was supposed to be receiving because someone used a stolen credit card against him (so seems they profit from illegal credit cards).
- If ebay was a bank, they would have a 24/7 riot outside their building by customers who were screwed.
- Ebay doesn't exactly listen to feedback. If are a typical large company, where you have no way of providing feedback (if you scream at them over the phone, maybe they will let you speak to a manager). But they clearly dont care much (no forums).

Its to our advantage to promote competition within the auction sites. More competition means lower costs for us, and better payment methods. We should try to encourage the development of a world wide auction site that is more consumer/seller friendly, that actually promotes active feedback and improvement.

There is nothing stopping a patch being applied to the firefox code to prevent ebay being a default search engine (and it shouldn't be hard to do).

Most applications allow you to horizontally scroll when you use the scrollwheel over a horizontal scrollbar, but this doesn't happen neither on Firefox nor OpenOffice.org (Writer, Calc, etc). This can be a problem when you're watching a wide page.

If someone is using a dark theme with Ubuntu, he will probably see all the input boxes and buttons filled with dark colours. This should be fixed, not everybody uses the default light theme.

On my mobile device when browsing the web, I can click a tel: href and have my mobile device ask if I want to call, I can click sms: href's and have it start a new sms to the provided number. On windows I can click a skype: link and it is auto handled by skype etc.

It seems browsers on Windows and even mobile devices have more functionality in this regard than Firefox on Ubuntu.

In intrepid, when firefox opens the dialog to allow you to specify the name and path where you want to save a file; the dialog only shows your local places, i.e. it does not show your network places. So, you cannot save the file in a network share.

This is specifically for those moments when you browse through your imagefolder to find a specific picture to upload and all you see are 8x8 microthumbnails of the pictures and their filenames. The large thumbnail view like in vista and windows XP would be a very good source for reference. I don't know if Microsoft has any patents on this so I'll leave it to it if it's so.

For any ubuntu users that are also channers, this would be a great improvement.

When one attempts to play a video in Firefox (at, e.g. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/elegant/program.html ), there is a prompt to install a browser plugin.

Unfortunately, this prompt provides six options for Quicktime, and four options for RealVideo.

No hints are provided to the user as to which plugin is most likely to work. If they guess wrong, there’s no easy way to change their mind.

When I upload photos I often have one small and one large version of the photo. To see which one was the small one I always need to go back in nautilus to see what the size of the files was.

If we have the file/image-size in the upload window I can see it immediately. This makes using it again a little bit more intuitive.

When you want to upload a foto on a webpage (webmail/fickr etc.) you get the upload selection window in which you need to select a photo. You cannot see thumbnails in this view, which is quite annoying. So you need to go back in the file manager and see what the exact file name is of the photo to select it.

If ubuntu wants to become more accepted by multimedia using people (http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/07/shuttleworths_u.html ), it needs to be extremely user friendly with simple things like this..