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My Mozilla Firefox Review
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| StereoPrincess |
So this is coming from a person that does not surf 1000s of sites, I got mainly to about 10 sites but I use the Internet for research purposes for school.
I'm sorry to say, to all those Firefox lovers but there is something wrong with this software. First of all, over the last month that I have been using this program it has crashed on me more often than Internet Explorer ever did over years of use. Maybe I use it for things that don't work too well with it. Mostly .pdf files when I have to download articles. Like this morning, I had to restart 5 times until I finally went to Explorer and open the .pdf with no problems. I even tried saving the target but it froze again.
I like the tab surfing, but if the program crashes so much I lose all the tabs and can't remember what I was looking at.
The forum plugin was nice. The gmail plugin is . It doesn't update the emails properly. It would show 0 but I would have 5 emails waiting or it would show 5 emails but I have already read those.
Tell me, am I doing something wrong? |
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| girllovingtvibe |
| yep - I went back to my original browser because it caused me too many problems and I do surf the web a lot. |
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| StereoPrincess |
| quote: | Originally posted by girllovingtvibe
yep - I went back to my original browser because it caused me too many problems and I do surf the web a lot. |
i thought i was the only loser that didn't like mozilla. i thought there was something wrong with me. |
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| tw1tch |
It does have issues with PDF's, I've seen other talk about it. Mine will freeze up sometimes when I'm trying to close the PDF page, but it comes back.
As for the overall, other than PDF's which I don't personally load up too much, I hate doing it, Acrobat's a pig. I love RSS bookmarks and tabbed browsing. I hate having a million windows open, comes from wanting everything neat and tidy. My desktop has 4 icons on it. :) |
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| AwakenedAddict |
Yea, pdf support is weak on firefox.. but it does everything else very well IMHO.
I tend just to save pdf files and open them in acrobat after i've previewed them maybe once in firefox.
Margs, are you using the newest release of firefox?
Also, the plug-ins aren't coded by the firefox team, it's mostly 3rd party-developed. Thats why a lot of them do not work perfectly. |
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| amb_ |
| quote: | Originally posted by tw1tch
...other than PDF's which I don't personally load up too much, I hate doing it, Acrobat's a pig. |
Too bad Windows hasn't had any postscript variant integrated into its core for 2D graphics acceleration... Apple's OSX, drawing on technology over a decade old, has achieved this quite well through its Quartz graphic subsystem.
Perhaps in Longhorn? |
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| rabbitjoker |
| FireFox actually chugs slower than my IE 6 in load-up time on a machine I have. I don't use it. |
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| stren |
| i use it rarely on my windows 98. It has issues with loading graphics as well. Foxytunes plugin is nice tho |
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| Durafei |
| quote: | | I like the tab surfing, but if the program crashes so much I lose all the tabs and can't remember what I was looking at. |
First make sure you have the latest release. Current release is 1.0, all earlier versions were BETAs and had known bugs.
| quote: | | The gmail plugin is . |
Don't use it. It's a hack - Google does not endorse such products and they might stop working ANY day should Google update something about Gmail. Use Google's own Gmail Notifier
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ften than Internet Explorer ever did over years of use. Maybe I use it for things that don't work too well with it. Mostly .pdf files when I have to download articles. Like this morning, I had to restart 5 times until I finally went to Explorer and open the .pdf with no problems. I even tried saving the target but it froze again.
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Yeah.. I have to agree with you there. However, I will still blame Acrobat for releasing that piece of software Acrobat Reader, which SUCKS ! I usually surf "in the opposite direction" whenever I see an acrobat document. |
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| Pettiscool |
your computer is fuxorxz
format, reinstall firefox, dont use ie.
done deal |
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| amb_ |
| quote: | Originally posted by StereoPrincess
So this is coming from a person that does not surf 1000s of sites, I got mainly to about 10 sites but I use the Internet for research purposes for school.
I'm sorry to say, to all those Firefox lovers but there is something wrong with this software. First of all, over the last month that I have been using this program it has crashed on me more often than Internet Explorer ever did over years of use. Maybe I use it for things that don't work too well with it. Mostly .pdf files when I have to download articles. Like this morning, I had to restart 5 times until I finally went to Explorer and open the .pdf with no problems. I even tried saving the target but it froze again.
I like the tab surfing, but if the program crashes so much I lose all the tabs and can't remember what I was looking at.
The forum plugin was nice. The gmail plugin is . It doesn't update the emails properly. It would show 0 but I would have 5 emails waiting or it would show 5 emails but I have already read those.
Tell me, am I doing something wrong? |
Sorry to hear you've had a negative experience with Firefox.
Like Kevin mentioned, Adobe is the one responsible for the in-line (opening in the browser window) PDF plugin, and I have to agree that it's little more than ca-ca. There are known issues with Adobe's version 6.x.x browser plugin and a quick search on Google will show the countless people frustrated with the PDF plugin and both Firefox and IE. There is a solution that removes the plugin equation, which involves changing Firefox to use the actual Adobe Acrobat viewer, and setting the viewer application to forgo all of the web extensions (unreliable plugin stuff).
Since a lot of plugins are designed and maintained by 3rd parties, it's sometimes difficult to see where the fault lies. But like you said, IE was a lot more stable all-around, evem with using the Adobe PDF plugin to view PDFs inside of an IE browser window...
I've been using Firefox on Windows (2k server, XP) and on Mac (OSX 10.2.8) for quite some time and have rarely come across any life-stopping issues. Browsing, especially without any crashing or interruption, is super important when I'm working, and I'm quite satisfied with the level of performance I've come to enjoy with Firefox.
Everyone's hardware, operating system, configured 3rd-party plugins, and so forth create a huge amount of variables that affects how good the browser is going to run. I like this browser for its compliance to web standards, blazing rendering engine, and low overhead. YMMV. |
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| StereoPrincess |
| quote: | Originally posted by Durafei
I usually surf "in the opposite direction" whenever I see an acrobat document. |
i can't tho. i need those articles. and i can't deal with it freezing all the time. i never have the same problem with IE. |
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