Comment Oh dear, ribbon bar :-( (Score 1) 1124
Why is Firefox going backwards in usability? Despite all the publicity surrounding Microsoft's Ribbon bar, why do people put it in their software? Its horrible. It makes usability really suffer. What to do is not obvious. Where is the menu bar? Dunno, I can't see it. Hmm, well what do I do to get to see it? Dunno, its hidden. Try something. Like what? I dunno. Many minutes later after a lot of random mouse clicking (which does nothing) and key pressing, someone presses "Alt", at which point the menu magically appears. Wow, thats intuitive. NOT.
If I struggle with it, how on earth is my father, who is 70 soon, going to live with it? Well he isn't. He's self taught and I'm often surprised at the things he does on his own (installed Ubuntu without asking for any help +1 for Ubuntu the installer is that good), but Ribbons will floor him, for sure.
The Ribbon bar is about as a good a UI decision as Apple's single button mouse on the grounds that users aren't bright enough to understand multiple buttons. Doh!