Top Sites: It gives you a window full of thumbnails for the sites you visit most often. Hmm, so if someone visits mostly news sites, they do so because they like to read stories, not look at pictures that cover the entire web page. So when their favorite sites are shrunk down to a thumbnail, they're unreadable. Therefore, what the fuck good does a bunch of thumbnails do? Also, they have to be generated by downloading the entire web page, so there's a shitload of internet traffic being wasted, and we certainly don't need any more of that these days.
Cover Flow view of bookmarks: A good idea 1% of the time.
Tabs on top: You just have to see this abomination to appreciate how utterly stupid it is. It destroys the look of the titlebar. It destroys the behavior of the titlebar. They react to background clicks, which is not a good thing. To sum up: fucking stupid.
Luckily, you can completely turn this shit off. Apple sure has been pissing me off the last few years. Still, they aren't Microsoft.
Edit: I also hate the loss of the page load progress in the address field, replaced by a indeterminate busy spinny thing. The page load progress is so helpful. I'm always keeping an eye on it so I know if the page is really done. This is useful when filling out a form, which may not be completely loaded, or long blog type pages that have hundreds of images on many different sites; if you see it's going slow, you should refrain from scrolling, because image loads will cause the page to jump away from where you've scrolled to, or you can see it'll take forever so you can cancel the load. A simple spinny thing only says, "yup, still a–loadin'. Not sure when we'll be done, and I'm not about to give you even a rough guess." Stupid spinny thing. Thankfully there's also a hidden pref to revert to the old, useful way.
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