To put it mildly, I hate what LL has done to the new viewer look. I started in late 2007, and while I had a lot to learn about sl, everyone does when they're new. When they made the decision to put out Viewer 2 - thinking it would "attract" more people, and "be easier" to use, it made the viewer, in my opinion, awful. I don't like the big honking bar on the side for one thing - it takes up far too much space, and it's harder for me to work with. Secondly - the viewer control SUCKS bigtime. Someone told me they were going to fix it, yet I tried the new beta today, and it is still awful!!! It doesn't work as smoothly as on the older viewer, and it is far too big! I have recently seen something about FUI ( flexible User Interface) - and I saw a video of another viewer's work on changing the way the UI looks, more like the older one. LL - take a lesson from that and go back to the older viewer's look, it was SO MUCH BETTER.