An Unholy Mess
Firefox doesn’t love me anymore. I’m so distraught and dissappointed that Firefox is still having major issues and bugs since their ‘upgrade’ to Version 2. Ive been using Internet Exploder since a week after Firefox upgraded itself which is a degrading experience, but at least its a means to an end while I work. I miss the sweet plugins that I became so dependent on, like the developer tools and the wonderful tab options that once wooed me.
Is anyone else experiencing these problems?
- Frequent spontaneous browser crashes and freezes - every 5 or 10 minutes
- Each time the browser opens it never remembers the last session or my homepage and always opens a helpful “You’ve upgraded to the latest version of Firefox!” page just to irritate me further. Ive tried uninstalling Tab Mix Plus plugin to no avail.
- Any window that pops up usually shows a saved page from the previous session instead of the page you want.
- Using the Google Toolbar causes more frequent crashes
I was once such a devoted Firefox disciple, but my faith is being severely tested. I am beginning to believe there is no browser God.
October 24th, 2007 at 4:55pm
FF was giving me loads of problems after upgrading to 2.0, but since then there’ve been a few minor updates and I’ve noticed an improvement, though I still don’t think it’s as reliable as 1.5 was. It’s on v. 2.0.0.7 now and I barely notice it crashing, and it always remembers what tabs I had open previously.
The latest update which seems to have fixed the problem only came out a few days ago, I believe.
I think I’m going to be using Safari once I get Leopard, though FF 3 looks even better, but again, we’ll have to see how much bloat comes along with it.
October 25th, 2007 at 4:02am
My FF 2 is working fine on Vista - probably the only thing that works well on Vista. :P Try removing it completely and installing the latest one.
October 25th, 2007 at 5:02am
I’m using Flock now since I encountered the same problems. Flock is based on FF but works perfect! (I have no shares ;-) )
October 25th, 2007 at 6:26am
no problems here, but I don’t have many add-ins, only web dev, google, downthemall.
October 25th, 2007 at 10:16am
Hmmm… lost of things. I’m going to try out Flock. I’ll also try reinstalling again, but this time I’ll use a registry cleaner and install my plugins one at a time to see what happens… if it doesnt start acting up before the plugins are installed.
Its good to have you back eazy!