I used to use the galeon web browser. I got used to having tabs on the right side of my browser; I can have lots of tabs and read what is in them. This works in part because I devote one workspace entirely to a full-screen browser.

When galeon maintenance ceased, I did not update until I found the vertigo Firefox extension. Then I stayed on Firefox 1.5.0.x until vertigo supported Firefox 2. Now, I have been staying on Firefox 2 because vertigo does not support Firefox 3. This is starting to feel familiar.

Today, I found a mention of Tree Style Tab as supported by Firefox 3. Trying it out, I was pleasantly surprised; the configuration options are better, and I like the tree style where you can see which tabs were opened from other tabs (this can be disabled if you don't like that feature, though).

Now, the only thing that keeps pushing me back to Firefox 2 is the fact that Firefox 3 does not actually bring up a window, even if I specify -safe-mode, unless I completely remove my .mozilla directory. I haven't yet figured out what it is in my .mozilla directory that is confusing Firefox 3 that badly. This makes me sad.

Update: The problem was that this build of Firefox 3 (I don't know about any other builds) has a broken profile manager, and my profiles.ini setting of StartWithLastProfile=0 causes Firefox to start the profile manager and quit. Changing that 0 to a 1 works around the problem for now; I *usually* choose the default profile anyway, and I do know how to edit profiles.ini to change the default profile even without the profile manager working.