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Firefox 3.5 Beta

Andy — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:02:19 +0000

Ok, i’ve had about as much of Firefox 3 as i can take! It’s an unreliable (on my pc) memory sucking piece of shite. This has become more noticable after using Google Chrome and the new Intenet Explorer. I don’t know what’s gone wrong at the Firefox camp but they’re certainly not the cool cats that they used to be. If it wasn’t for the vast amount of add-ons i could see very little reason for using it to be honest and if the sleeker and speedier Chrome has as a big a selection of add-ons i’d dump Firefox like *snaps fingers* that!

I find that whenever i click on certain links (not all, just particular types) Firefox 3 crashes on me. For instance, in WordPress if i try to click ‘Insert Image’ to either upload a photo or add one from Flickr Firefox just shuts down on me. Every single time wtihout fail. Very annoying. So i’ve just downloaded Firefox 3.5 Beta and i’m hoping i get on a bit better with this one. Half of my add-ons don’t work but that’s to be expected seeing as it’s Beta but if it stops crashing on me then i can live with that until the full blown release. Fingers crossed . . . .

Firefox is Firefucked?

Andy — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 00:00:12 +0000

Now, i hate Internet Explorer with a passion^[1], for anyone designing websites, forum or blog themes it’s an absolute nightmare! The amount of tweakery pokery you have to go through to get some things to work … well it’s enough to make you scream. Which is why i praised the lord when Firefox came along. It seems like no matter what you throw at it, it just works. Or at least it did. I don’t know what in whore of Babylon hell they have done with Firefox 3 but on my pc it’s almost as unstable as Internet Explorer. It’s often crashing on me when i click on download links.

So now what? There’s Flock browser but that’s just a rip off of Firefox i think with a few social bits ‘n’ bobs bolted on. There’s Google Chrome which although is nice and speedy, it doesn’t display all websites properly. I guess there’s always Safari … but i’d miss my Firefox add-ons! *gahhhh!*. I hope they fix whatever the problem is and i know i’m not the only one having this problem with it. They should have left it as Firefox 2 – you know what they say, if it aint broke …

as does anyone in their right mind