i agree:

background styling field would be nice (modify repeat, and position)

what would be even better is having an opacity slider near the color chooser in cell properties :)

folder refresh - i think selective folder refresh could be done by selecting "refresh" on all the cells withing the folder.. (if i understand correctly)

note: i believe FD2 is for Firefox 3 only

i think there is no reason not to upgrade to firefox3, its better than v2 in every way =]

r u talking about the fd toolbar button?

well if u have the setting:
"Thumbnails in new tabs" - checkmarked in the FD settings

- and have a "new tab" button in the toolbar - you wouldnt need the center button to open fd..

is this what u meant?

>what would be even better is having an opacity slider near the color chooser in cell properties :) <

I can't disagree with you there. :-)

>folder refresh - i think selective folder refresh could be done by selecting "refresh" on all the cells withing the folder.. (if i understand correctly)<

Yes exactly, by being able to select or deselect refresh for all the cells in the folder.

The main difficulty I have in fact is with global refresh. If it is selected in error then one cannot stop it, and Firefox has to be closed by force.
An alternative would be to have the option in
Preferences to remove Global Refresh entirely from the Fast Dial context menu.

well, it doesnt necessarily need to be a field. just some way of modifying the background position, and repeat setting (for tiled backgrounds)

if it were a field, one could just use CSS
ex:
background-repeat: no-repeat;
or
background-position: top left;