Consolidate (Phoenix) preferences into fewer general categories (currently many panels, few prefs per panel, some extraneous, some (still) poorly worded, e.g. using "directory" instead of windows-standard "folder," having buttons called "Manage Images" when we provide no image management (in the traditional sense), etc.) Seven basic categories. Since there is no hierarchy here they can be presented in a flat list, maybe/hopefully with icons. Seven is slightly too many and the text is sligtly too large for them to stretch across the top of the window so it'll have to be down the left, as it is now. Navigation Home Page ( Home Page, no changes ) Windows and Tabs ( Open links in the background ) Default Browser ( Default, no changes ) Privacy ( no changes ) Fonts & Colors ( no changes ) Web Page Features [ ] Enable Java [ ] Enable Plugins (e.g. Macromedia Flash) [ ] Enable JavaScript Allow Scripts to: [ ] Load Images ( Manage Images * ) [ ] for originating [ ] Block Popup Windows +----+ Downloads (*) Ask me every time [ NOTE - currently it says 'rememeber the last place I saved' or some such... but my experience is that it always asks although the dialog that it asks DOES open rooted on the last folder I saved. I think the wording should thus be 'always ask' - with the dialog's recollection of the last place I saved being the expected behaviour. Let me know if I am misinterpreting this. ] ( ) Always use this folder [ ] ( browse... ) [ ] Anonymous FTP passwd [ ] [ NOTE - most likely to be download related ] Connection ( no changes ) Themes and Extensions Themes replace fixed image/description areas with an HTML area that shows either a description minipage or a fabricated page for older themes. Extensions add a "settings" button to invoke extension-specific preferences to keep clutter out of the preferences dialog and keep things usable. Rather than worry about what the default panel is, have the panel just remember the last panel you were in.