What irritates me about the new start menu is that it's utterly impossible to edit.
For example, I like to have all my audiogames in a folder called ---- well audiogames, and then subfolders for each developer. Yes, I could use desktop shortcuts, but being as most programs install a program group in the start menu with stuff like read manual, go to website etc, its' frankly stupid to not have access to those things, or worse, be able to create similar shortcuts for say something like crazy party with all my other games.
I don't really mind the change of direction with the start menu, since alphabetising things isn't such a bad idea, but why the hell! do we have no control over what goes where?
either way never mind, I have it now as I'm used to, complete using the desktop for shortcuts to stuff I actually want shortcut keys for such as vlc media player and the mail program.
speaking of mail and mosilla and such.
I do mean to try thunderbird, since the iwndows mail program is only a stop gap measure, in particular I'd like something with a semi decent contacts manager the way outlook express had, since right now sending an email to anyone I don't remember the address of is a pest, and the windows contact manager is very clunky, even with narrator.
With Firefox, on the one hand the occasional nvda slowdown in ie and the tendency of nvda to get caught up in the search bar is a miner pest, on the other hand when I last tried firefox I really didn't like the bookmarks system.
I have probably 15 years worth of favourites again insubfolders upon subfolders for everything from audiogames, to game soundtracks, to tv nostalgic things, online classic books softare and various other subjects.
while I know firefox can import favourites into it's bookmarks, I then found the process of actually managing the bookmarks menu to be really irritating, eg, trying to put things in subfolders or rename things or access specific ones, especially the rather odd way it displays subfolder contents in the main menu rather than in a submenu.
If Firefox bookmarks was just a standard windows folder list that I could cut and paste and move around as I do the favourites menu, or if firefox would use the favourites folder anyway, I'd have no hesitation in trying it out and possibly switching, actually since the favourites are just urls stored on the system I really don't see why firefox has to use it's own internal data storage systeminstead, especially one which doesn't seem possible to access through windows explorer.
If I've got this wrong, feel free to correct me, since as I said I have nothing against firefox and I do find the mild slowdown and nvda's rather odd habbit of getting stuck in the ie toolbars a bit whacky.
Just to put this in perspective, at the moment I get to this forum by finding the favourites folder (I've created a start menu link), hitting "A" for my audiogames subfolder, then hitting 2 which is the forum (1 being the main front page).
With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)