Comments on: Firefox 3 Sucks

by: Georg

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:03:03 +0000

Firefox 3 bookmark editing is simply impossible.
It should not slow down my computer (Athlon XP 2600 processor), but it does. To the point that 100% CPU load occurs when accessing or attempting to move a single bookmark. This is not an issue with any other browser nor is it one with FF2. Only one with FF3. I am switching over to K-Meleon. Loads faster, usable, simple, effective. Why should I need an external bookmark editor for the simple task of moving some bookmarks into their according folders? That has not happened to me since 1996 and it wont happen now.

by: scritti_politti

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:14:07 +0000

firefox-2 is still supported by mozilla, and so are most of the add-ons & extensions, I will continue to use ff2 until they fix the suckiness in ff3. the latest firefox-2 is version 2.0.0.18 download it from here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html

by: Darren

Sat, 15 Nov 2008 19:56:34 +0000

This new firefox sucks. Several of the web pages I try to access just cause my browser to freeze. And what’s even more pathetic is that when I try to go to the firefox web page and try to post my message on the forum it causes the browser to freeze. I’ve spent way to much time on this problem and have decided to just import all of my bookmarks to another browser and just uninstall firefox from my computer. Hopefully I can find an older version to install somewhere. Shame on you firefox for putting out such a lame browser.

by: Firefox 3.1 coming up : Trader Eyal

Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:25:16 +0000

[…] I thought it’ll go all ‘babak - firefox 3 sucks‘ on me but it’s been as stable as FF 3, i.e. zero issues on my system. All my extensions work fine as well (some were force-installed just like on v3). I can see some small speed improvements, mainly on pages with heavy javascript like gmail. The release notes show a few minor features were added which I’m not using so it’s mainly just snappier websites for me. […]

by: Judy

Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:30:12 +0000

I hate firefox 3
I’m typing from opera right now too.
Firefox almost never loads for me! My internet connection is connected and the pages are still soo laggy, and when they do load the css won’t show either X_X
When I try to open ff3 sometimes “Firefox is still currently running, please close the remain windows or w/e to restart firefox”! I mean seriously
Hate it.

by: Eric

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:33:32 +0000

@remowo

I think IE8 will be a much better choice that FF3 to be honest.

by: remowo

Wed, 22 Oct 2008 07:34:35 +0000

Same problems here…

I guess that’s the price for glory and money…

They made firefox the number 1 browser, a very popular piece of software and now for no “obvious” reason the staff it with themes, look n feel bullcrap and beautiful colors.

People around the world showed firefox owners and developers that the prefer efficiency and stability a LOT MORE than colors - beauty - community add-ons - community add-ins -community this - community that……….
The community around firefox is a powerfull one and needs to be fed one way or another.

I think that Rome is going down this winter ….

Any good firefox alternatives…? Maybe IE is now the choice?! [no way] hahahah!

by: Ales

Sun, 19 Oct 2008 14:30:30 +0000

Here;s a word from a web developer: FireFox 3 is completely useless and causes a lot of headaches - there are several problems, ranging from html rendering itself to javascript load orders, memory leaks (900 megs ram usage …) to being overall slow with dynamic content.

Used to be a favourite with most of the developers because of awesome FireBug addon with FireFox 2 but the new one just causes more problems than it solves. Mozilla really went the wrong direction this time - it seems the Netscape story repeating all over again

Oh well, good thing Google release Chrome which helps ease the pain of finding another non IE browser.

by: Kirby

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 05:38:27 +0000

Yup, it sucks. Back to firefox 2, or maybe opera.

by: mediatech

Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:35:18 +0000

As I mentioned earlier I regressed back to FireFox 2.00.16 because 3.0X was such a disaster. I’ve used Opera and have it loaded but just recently updated it to 9.52 from an earlier version of 9.X. Wow - the difference between Opera and FireFox is stunning. Pages load much faster and I’m not getting these strange FireFox-related “hangs” when I back arrow or click a new link. This is even happening in 2.00.16. Somewhere along the way Mozilla “broke” V 2.00. I’m tempted to try 2.00.14 next as I continue regression.

Opera needs a little training WRT updating my passwords in it, but it’s about to become my default browser. Opera seems to have the speed of Chrome. Chrome, being beta, is lacking in a lot of customization making it more of a novelty and less of a tool. Chrome will get there eventually.

Opera deserves some serious consideration by all of us disgusted with FireFox 3.