Comments on: Firefox Getting Worse and Worse http://marc.perkel.com/2006/06/29/firefox-getting-worse-and-worse/ Marc Perkel is the most dangerous mind on the Internet Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:24:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: maxhodges http://marc.perkel.com/2006/06/29/firefox-getting-worse-and-worse/#comment-4944 maxhodges Thu, 19 Apr 2007 05:35:09 +0000 http://www.perkel.com/wp/?p=767#comment-4944 I agree. firefox is hanging more, and causing more problems than ever. And I'm using freshly installed Windows XP system. >>you know it is open source right? This means one can't just pass the buck to the Mozilla Foundation, if you find bugs you have to report them or even solve them because you can. Mozilla is a FOR PROFIT company BTW, and ever if they weren't there is still reason to let me know how we feel about their products. >>I can't believe all the Mozilla bashing here. why not? we simply expect more. I agree. firefox is hanging more, and causing more problems than ever. And I’m using freshly installed Windows XP system.

>>you know it is open source right? This means one can’t just pass the buck to the Mozilla Foundation, if you find bugs you have to report them or even solve them because you can.

Mozilla is a FOR PROFIT company BTW, and ever if they weren’t there is still reason to let me know how we feel about their products.

>>I can’t believe all the Mozilla bashing here.
why not? we simply expect more.

]]> By: Tyler http://marc.perkel.com/2006/06/29/firefox-getting-worse-and-worse/#comment-4943 Tyler Wed, 28 Mar 2007 15:05:06 +0000 http://www.perkel.com/wp/?p=767#comment-4943 I can't believe all the Mozilla bashing here. One word that should probably be two words, Greasemonkey...it makes Firefox worth any memory hogging in my mind. Linux users, try Swiftfox, it's a tweaked version of Firefox for specific Intel processors. Leaving windows running for 3 days is probably the main source of your troubles Marc. Love the site. I can’t believe all the Mozilla bashing here. One word that should probably be two words, Greasemonkey…it makes Firefox worth any memory hogging in my mind. Linux users, try Swiftfox, it’s a tweaked version of Firefox for specific Intel processors. Leaving windows running for 3 days is probably the main source of your troubles Marc. Love the site.

]]> By: Yuriy http://marc.perkel.com/2006/06/29/firefox-getting-worse-and-worse/#comment-4942 Yuriy Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:36:27 +0000 http://www.perkel.com/wp/?p=767#comment-4942 Firefox got much worse, it does not allow to copy paste text, it is slow and crashes. No good, but sadly there is no good alternative either. A year ago I thought Mozilla will be the next best thing, but as it turns out it didn't live up to my expectations. Firefox got much worse, it does not allow to copy paste text, it is slow and crashes. No good, but sadly there is no good alternative either. A year ago I thought Mozilla will be the next best thing, but as it turns out it didn’t live up to my expectations.

]]> By: Matt http://marc.perkel.com/2006/06/29/firefox-getting-worse-and-worse/#comment-4941 Matt Wed, 05 Jul 2006 21:31:27 +0000 http://www.perkel.com/wp/?p=767#comment-4941 you know it is open source right? This means one can't just pass the buck to the Mozilla Foundation, if you find bugs you have to report them or even solve them because you can. by the way, no one is twisting your arm to use the latest version of firefox if you think it was better earlier by all means download the earlier version. you know it is open source right? This means one can’t just pass the buck to the Mozilla Foundation, if you find bugs you have to report them or even solve them because you can.

by the way, no one is twisting your arm to use the latest version of firefox if you think it was better earlier by all means download the earlier version.

]]> By: scott http://marc.perkel.com/2006/06/29/firefox-getting-worse-and-worse/#comment-4940 scott Tue, 04 Jul 2006 03:58:45 +0000 http://www.perkel.com/wp/?p=767#comment-4940 I find the beta 2 version of I.E. even worse.I installed it after a fresh reformat of my laptop and right from the word go it was like trudging through sludge.They need to start trimming the fat from these bloated browsers dude.I'm thinking about checking Opera out again. I find the beta 2 version of I.E. even worse.I installed it after a fresh reformat of my laptop and right from the word go it was like trudging through sludge.They need to start trimming the fat from these bloated browsers dude.I’m thinking about checking Opera out again.

]]> By: Monkey http://marc.perkel.com/2006/06/29/firefox-getting-worse-and-worse/#comment-4939 Monkey Thu, 29 Jun 2006 20:39:44 +0000 http://www.perkel.com/wp/?p=767#comment-4939 Indeed, Firefox has some serious problems but it's still better than Internet Exploder. Anyway, the memory leak is _partially_ related to windows crappy memory management. My way of dealing with it is by reloading Firefox at least one every day or two and running two instances of the browser, perhaps Firefox and Flock or Firefox 1.5 and Bon Echo (Firefox 2 Alpha) side-by-side. This way neither one gets as much memory bloat and I can restart one without killing the other. I consider the little problems to be worth it compared to the huge problems that I have experienced with IE. Indeed, Firefox has some serious problems but it’s still better than Internet Exploder.

Anyway, the memory leak is _partially_ related to windows crappy memory management. My way of dealing with it is by reloading Firefox at least one every day or two and running two instances of the browser, perhaps Firefox and Flock or Firefox 1.5 and Bon Echo (Firefox 2 Alpha) side-by-side. This way neither one gets as much memory bloat and I can restart one without killing the other.

I consider the little problems to be worth it compared to the huge problems that I have experienced with IE.

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