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Anyone else having problems with the latest from Firefox?

Posted by Arif on Wednesday, 11/01/06

I've been running version 2 of Firefox since it was released, and I'm really less than impressed.

lately, I've found that it crashes/freezes A LOT.  I had to kill and restart it 3 times in less than an hour this morning, in each case starting a new session, not visiting any pages from the last session that could have cause the browser to freeze, etc.  Nothing seems to make a difference.

I'm now typing this from Opera - so far the only browser that I can stand given that I won't use IE, and Firefox keeps crashing.

Anyone else seeing issues with it?  Makes me think about going back a version until the kinks are worked out with version 2.

Filed under General, Internet, Software

Comments

You want things to work, but then you've got to be an early adopter. These things will forever be in direct conflict, my friend. Of course I haven't tried it yet--I'm waiting for you to unearth all the bugs in Firefox 2.0. Later, like around 2.0.1 I'll try it. Rollback to what works, you don't need the headache.
Submitted by amanda (not verified) on Friday, 11/03/2006 - 4:02pm
I just uninstalled 2.0 along with a bunch of other firefox related cruft and then reinstalled 2.0. So far, its working really well.
Submitted by Arif (not verified) on Friday, 11/03/2006 - 4:08pm
Hey A'n'A, don't know if you've seen this but Wired mag offers 'Browsers: The Year in Review' for 2006. It offers provides their assessment of Firefox 2.0, IE 7 and a slew of lesser-known browsers that i'd never heard of.
Submitted by chad (not verified) on Wednesday, 12/27/2006 - 11:28am

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