Thursday, October 11, 2007
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Today I downloaded IE7 and set it to my default browser, leaving Firefox after about 5 years of use. Firefox is still a good browser, but with IE implementing tabbed browsing I don't have to put up with the annoyances of Firefox to get tabs. Here are the 10 main reasons I am switching.

1. Tools-->Options-->Show Passwords-->Show Passwords WTF? I should have stopped using firefox when someone showed me this for the first time.

2. The real last straw was Firefox's support for EV(Extended Verification) certificates. I can't find any solid information if they will be supported in FF3, or even when FF3 is scheduled to come out. I found this post, but this kind of attitude of denouncing a decision after it has been made rather than trying to help the process really bothers me. 

3. Auto update. I don't know why firefox updates in the background and then gives me a crap dialog box to "install now or later" nagging me every time I start it. Did they get bought out by Adobe?

4. Firefox still has memory problems. If I surf for 2-3 hours, opening a lot of tabs, and then trim down to 2-3 base tabs Firefox will still be around 200meg.

5. Buggy CSS. As much as firefox fans crow about how good their CSS is, there are still way to many bugs/inconsistencies.

6. Too many versions. There are too many versions and no clear road map. We don't really need 2.0.3, and all the versions give fan boys a crutch, "Well, have you updated to 2.0.3a? That will fix your problem"

7. Firefox crashes too much. I'm on my computer all day on XP and Server 2003 and programs don't really crash anymore. Sometimes I kill them, but Firefox crashes at least once a month.

8. Too much blame on extensions. Any problem with FF is shoved off to "its probably an extension". Extensions should not be allowed to crash the main program.

9. If I open a new tab and type the url too fast, it does not work. This, surprisingly, is my second biggest reason for leaving Firefox. I used to be able to Ctrl-T, and start typing. Now when I try the cursor is in the address bar blinking, but typing does nothing. I have to lose focus of the address bar and then put it back in.

10. If I have too many tabs open, copy/past breaks. That is, I cannot copy from Firefox to another app. I can copy from notepad to another app, but not Firefox. I cannot reproduce this on purpose, so I don't know for sure it is FF, but I suspect.



Posted By: Chris Burkhardt on October 11, 2007  #    Disclaimer  |  Comments [1]  |  Related posts:
Firefox margin-top CSS bug

Tuesday, October 16, 2007 7:47:08 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)
Yeah, I know what you mean. In the beginning I think they (FF) had a clear vision of what they wanted to accomplish but now it's fuzzy and lost in cyberspace. Actually, if I would have never "upgraded" I wonder if it would work just as well as it did. It shows me that no one should just automatically assume to upgrade because you might just be downgrading. Just because they claim that it's an upgrade doesn't mean that it's been tested.

I even found one time, not too long ago, how to stop allowing FF to get up to 200M in memory - it's there right now - because I upgraded and lost that command for the registry I guess. If I ever find that fix I'll have to file it away. Basically that's why I quit aol (amongst many reasons - horrible company) because I have to go back in everywhere I've fixed and fix their "upgrades".

Yeah, I do find myself using them less and less. Even now it's making my keyboarding trail something awful.
Jose
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