[geeks] Firefox regression...

[velociraptor]

I installed FF3 on a couple of Linux boxes, and based on that
experience, I'll be holding on to FF2 on my 'doze box.  I mostly use
Camino on OS X, with a little Safari thrown in for good measure.  I
only use FF on OS X when I absolutely have to due to "your browser is
not compatible" b.s or web testing when I'm working on CSS and such.

I've also removed all extensions to FF except for Adblock+ and
Filterset G on 'doze.  I keep a couple of more web debugging
extensions in FF on OS X for testing (turned off unless needed).

I've tried Opera on Linux, and I just don't like it.

=Nadine=

On 6/15/08, Mark <md.benson at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've used it on Windows and IE7 beats FF3 for most stuff. I hate to
> say it but IMHO IE7 is a great browser. It's still not perfect but
> it's good enough, and considering it's predecessors, it's
> revolutionary for an MS browser.
>
> On OS X Safari beats FF3's ass into a cocked hat all over the place.
> It's faster, crashes less, hardly ever memory leaks, it does hog RAM
> but only usually because I have a lot of tabs open. Plus OS X
> integration is a lot tighter in Safari than FF3.
>
> Frankly I think Mozilla are on a highway to nowhere with Firefox.
> 2.0.0.x has descended into the worst browser I've used in a long time,
> it's stupidly slow and crashy even without many add-ons. Where'd it
> all go wrong? Firefox used to be lightweight, slick and fast, and ran
> rings around its competitors. Now it's become the same crappy sluggish
> bloatware rubbish mot other browsers are, and technology like WebKit
> is slaughtering  Gecko now on OS X and Linux for speed and stability
> (in KDE4 and OS X respectively). WebKit on Windows still has a ways to
> go but even Safari for Windows isn't that bad, it just doesn't feel
> right using it on a Windows machine, and it's not all there.
>
> As a web designer you;d think I'd be ultra critical of browsers but I
> just use what the hell works. Currently for me that's IE7 on Windows
> and Safari on OS X. I use Firefox 2.x on Linux because it's provided
> with Ubuntu as standard, but I don't like it much.
>
> As for their Guinness Book of Records thing on Tuesday you won't find
> me rushing to download the new version.
>
>
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