Firefox rant...

[ostarella]

Well, Firefox 3.5.7 sucks big time, so I'm checking my old pc to see what version I had there. Found a site where I can still download older versions - going back to what I had. 3.5.7 is sooooo slow - many times I have to try 3-4 times before it can even "find" the site, or it "times out" before it can connect. Not to mention they've revamped their 'clean up' stuff with so many technical terms I don't know what I should clean out and what I need to leave. Gah! I was looking at some support forums and wasn't greatly impressed with their techies, either. Several people were reporting the same problems and they kept being told it was "their" problem (ie, their pc, their router, their something-or-other) and not Firefox - yeah, like all these people had the same crappy equipment. Starting to sound more and more like Microsoft :p

I mean, I know it's open-source and all that jazz, and it's still (or at least was) better than IE, but... Now they have version 3.6 - but as one person in the forums said, with every new version it gets worse, so yeah, I'm going to rush to install that one.

Comments

[mlpsunflower.livejournal.com]

It’s a catch 22 though. I have Firefox 3.5.7 a home and then IE 8 at work. To be frank they both suck. They have both added so many features that it slows the whole process down. Just give me something that will bookmark my pages and display pages fast. That’s all I need, the other stuff can go in the trash for all I care.

[bevimoo.livejournal.com]

I'm getting less and less happy with it myself. Have you tried Google Chrome? Hubby has switched over to it after years of Firefox, and he's very happy with it. Might be worth a look see. :)

[ostarella.livejournal.com]

I haven't tried it yet, although I'm pretty happy with the other Google items I use. I've installed an older version of Firefox now that I had on my old computer, and it seems to work better. Might be a combination of new Firefox and Windows 7 as well. But at this point, I'm disgusted enough with Firefox I may give the Chrome a try.

[billy-shriner.livejournal.com]

You know, I just thought it was Facebook or LJ... Hmmm... hopefully they'll upgrade soon to fix the problem. I'm running in Firefox too :-(