Firefox 3 Beta1 and zooming

Here is another piece of experience with Beta 1 of Firefox 3:

One new feature is full page zooming. This new feature combines three aspects:

1. Not only text gets zoomed but design elements and pictures too.
2. Firefox remembers the zooming level for each page.
3. The traditional text-only zooming is no longer possible.
   

While I appreciate aspects 1 and 2 I think that the lake of text-only zooming is problematic. Picture zooming can result in ugly looking pictures. Especially at websites where picture quality matters but the text is too small for comfortable reading text-only zooming is needed.

What I would love to see is the option to choose between text-only and full-page zooming. In both possibilities the settings should be automatically saved. It also would be great if both options could be combined. For example I would like to use page-zooming up to the level where picture quality is still ok. Then I would like to zoom the text up to the point where the page design is still intact.

Another problem is that Firefox significantly slows down while zoomed pages are open (tested with Linux. This might vary depending on your operation system). I guess/hope this problem will be solved in the final version.