I liked 2 the best, especially with a dock. I understand what they were attempting in 3, but it was such a letdown. Writing everything in JS was a weird decis

I liked 2 the best, especially with a dock. I understand what they were attempting in 3, but it was such a letdown. Writing everything in JS was a weird decision. I remember for the first few releases, having to constantly restart the shell because the JS engine leaked so badly. You could watch RSS grow indefinitely everytime you moused over the top left corner. It's a lot better now, usable with a few extensions...but I still think what a waste it was tossing 2 like they did. Extensions are an OK idea, but because they're mostly JS and CSS, there doesn't seem to be much safety there. It's very common for them to break each release because of some obscure attribute change.