Comment 86 for bug 14838

Yeah, I too think this is the wrong decision, for most of the reasons listed above.
I'd like to add (and I really did read all those posts so as not to dup) a
detail: for many new users, the right and middle buttons don't exist --
especially the middle button (on most mice, it's a _scroll wheel_, which only
happys to also act like a button).
Picture a user with a one-button mouse (i.e. with ubuntu on mac hardware, or
just a newbie who never uses the other two buttons). With the old behavior, they
are faced with two many windows. They can close the extra windows by dragging
their mouse the big X in the upper right and closing it. They might be annoyed,
but they would know what to do.
With the new ubuntu-mode, a user who wants to have a parent and child open at
the same time has no recourse. Or rather, the only recourse they have is to open
the child, and then open the parent by using the little un-button-like button in
the lower left-hand corner. In other words, they don't really have a way to have
parent and child open at the same time.
As stated countless times, this undoes the main advantage of spatial browsing.
Anyway, I just installed ubuntu for a brand new computer user (who will be
taught to use a computer by a daughter familiar with Mac OS), not having
realized this change had been made. I'm disappointed to realize his browsing
will be complicated by default (and I'm not at all confident I can explain to
the daughter how to navigate gconf and change the default).
I would love to see this changed back. I'd also like to hear what this
advantages ubuntu-spatial offers over browser-mode.