Comments on: Firefox 3 Sucks

by: Reinfield

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 06:57:43 +0000

For years,I have suffered at the hands of Firefox.
I have spent countless hours in frustration reading how-to’s on optimizing network settings and also have through the Mozilla-zine pored to no avail.
Tonight,in a fit of pique,switched browsers and within minutes was enjoying long lost
websites which FF2x/3x could never load.
Music,Movies,Pictures and indeed all the goodness of the World wide web are mine again and I feel that same thrill that has been absent for so long.
There are many fine browsers out there,all one has to do is grit the teeth one last time refreshing and restarting Firefox till your search is complete and your mind made up.
Go now and secure the blessings of the world community at large.
Your friend,Rein.

by: Babak

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 03:04:03 +0000

Guest, you can get old versions at the aptly named: oldversion.com and also at filehippo (for a pile of software, not just firefox)

by: GUEST

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 22:26:00 +0000

would be nice if we coul get a 2.x ver back - I can only assume mozilla lost ALL their programmers b4 working on the 3.x versions and were forced to hire circus chimps - the trash they came out with makes MS explorer look like a godsend.

by: NYCGRIFF

Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:53:19 +0000

I grabbed a copy of Firefox v2.0.0.20 and will also continue to use it until the Mozilla crowd cleans up their act. With all of the complaints about FF3 abounding across the Net, hopefully they’ll put their newly-acquired arrogance aside and buckle down and fix these issues. We all can’t be wrong about these problems…

by: X_demob

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:25:14 +0000

Totally agree with the last post, I’m still on Firefox v2.0.0.2 , my extensions continue to work although I have to use older versions, but everything is fine on FF2, I ocassionaly do download FF3 just to see if they’ve improved things but FF3 remains both complicated and bloated software, the bookmarking system in FF3 is a particular pet hate, devised by someone who lost the plot!

by: Firefox 3 blunder

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:04:35 +0000

Yea, Firefox 3 was and still is a colossal blunder. The philosophy changed for the worst, from giving the user all of the options to how they want the browser to be and look and a simple browser that was Firefox until version 3, to now where new features that are mandatory and are crap and bloat and you can’t turn them off and the new philosophy is “WE KNOW BEST”.

I will be using Firefox 2 for years until its no longer able to be used with websites on the internet, and I expect it will be good for at least a few years until it becomes completely obsolete then will see if a new browser that is like the old Firefox has arrived by then.

By the way here is the link to get the last version of Firefox 2: ftp://archive.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0.0.20/win32/en-US/

That is for the windows english version, you can go to higher level directories for other systems and languages on that link.

There are tutorials on the Firefox website on how to completely uninstall Firefox 3 if you want to go back to the version 2.

by: S-Article

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 19:14:10 +0000

FF3 sucks big time. I’m a web developer and i usually tend to have multiple tabs open at once, every 30 minutes FF3 crash, every 2-3 crashes, FF3 cannot restore the windows anymore. Other than that i use yahoo mail and whenever i try to switch from one email to another is like i’m downloading the internet. I miss good all times when i was using FF2.

I will wait the next update if things stay the same i will switch to another browser.

by: mediatechnology

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:41:45 +0000

Dittos to all of the above. One really has to wonder what special mojo Firefox’s developers machines have that keeps it from appearing so hopelessly broken to them. Do they not actually use the product? Maybe Microsoft is paying them to break it. The destruction of Firefox may be a deliberate inside job.

by: NYCGRIFF

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:27:49 +0000

Without question, Firefox has tumbled. Each and every so-called update has pushed this once fine browser further and further into the abyss. Pages will not load. Links have to be clicked more than once. “Timeouts” have become the norm… The list of problems just grows with every session. WTF? If you’re one of the lucky few who haven’t experienced these abnormalities, well, God bless you. Personally, I’ve gone back to Safari and IE (woe is me). Something that I never thought I’d do. But, given the many problems with Firefox, I had little recourse. This once great “Mozilla Project” dream has turned into a freakin’ *nightmare*! There is no defense folks.

by: Harold Ward

Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:03:21 +0000

Please, if everyone would kind use the correct spelling:

FIRESUX

It’s had its day, what with Koovan Meatnick pushing it from the get go. What a joke. He is a RELIC and hides behind “social engineering” because he can’t ride with the black hats.

The internet is nothing but a cesspool of consumerism horse hockey. I’m done with it. Stupidest scam since “free” commercial television and the x and whine generations are buying it hook line and s(t)inker.

SCREW IT. Sick of UPDATES Sick of always FIXING CRAP.

TIME STEALER. The most important thing you will EVER have is your TIME. Yet we willingly “beta test,” “give feedback,” “show our support….”

I’m going to Tibet and I’m not taking anything that runs on batteries.

DONE.

YOU

CAN

HAVE

IT.

Your X boxes, your iphones, your PSPs your “internet notebooks” your pathetic GUITAR HERO(vomit)

I feel better already. This is the last thing I will ever post. My plane flight for the first leg to Tibet is Monday.

Enjoy all the “virtual reality” CRAP that Mondo 2000 magazine put such a frickin’ SPIN ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LAUGH A BULL ~!!!!!!!!!!!

“R U Sirius?” Guess NOT! Oh…gee, let me “hack” a gamer’s “power glove.”

I’m going for reality. I’m done. I knew I myself was “jumping the shark” when I put thousands of dollars into a water cooled quad processing monster…

and for WHAT?????????????

To run inferior software that is released on the consumer before it is thoroughly tested?

So some prudes can chirp “Hey, Harold, I’m not having any of the problems you are having, why don’t you try….”

Why don’t you walk up a dark alley and holler “fish”? You got it?

I WILL NEVER COME BACK. I wasted YEARS of my life writing code only to see it bastardized by yuptard freaks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Java is a joke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The name alone implies some affected angst ridden pimpled youngster living in a coffee shop, “workin’ on that novel….”

(screaming!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(pulling the plug……..)