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| Firefox 3 Sucks |
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ImLeftFooted
Member #3,935
October 2003
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Yes, I said it. It crashed on me 3-5 times a day. It would randomly stop responding to clicks. It was a horrid experience. Whats worse, FF3 did its stop responding bit in the middle of a demo! Bad times... |
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SonShadowCat
Member #1,548
September 2001
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I have it installed on kubuntu 8 and it has yet to crash or malfunction on me... |
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Erikster
Member #9,510
February 2008
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Hehehe. Cat! I'm a kitty cat. And I dance dance dance, and I dance dance dance. |
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Jeff Bernard
Member #6,698
December 2005
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It's a beta for a reason (read: it doesn't work yet). -- |
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ReyBrujo
Moderator
January 2001
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So far, it works pretty well for me. I haven't tested the "close-of-death" (when it suddenly gets stuck and begins closing all the tabs without being able to stop it), but so far it is much faster than FF2. I miss mouse gestures, though. And Flash doesn't work correctly yet (at least, some of the sites I check). -- |
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Matthew Leverton
Supreme Loser
January 1999
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Sucks to be you. |
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Goalie Ca
Member #2,579
July 2002
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I've run FF since around x-mas on my mac and linux. It's been rock solid, the memory handling is now phenomenal, and the new cairo backend is awesome. ps: flash sucks! it crashes from time to time especially on linux. ------------- |
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deps
Member #3,858
September 2003
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Vanneto
Member #8,643
May 2007
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I am using it at home for quite some time and it hasnt crashed for me yet, altough I did find out why it crashed on me on Gmail almost all of the time. ( It was the HTML Validator extension that died on Gmail, heh, poor thing. In capitalist America bank robs you. |
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GullRaDriel
Member #3,861
September 2003
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Generally people having a fucked up configuration always complain about the fact that common used software are buggy, which generally isn't the case. Anyway you shouldn't use a beta and complain about bugs. Beta are there for a reason ya know.
"Code is like shit - it only smells if it is not yours" |
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Slartibartfast
Member #8,789
June 2007
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Quote: Anyway you shouldn't use a beta and complain about bugs. Beta are there for a reason ya know.
For a second there I thought I was in the Stupid Vista thread ---- |
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BAF
Member #2,981
December 2002
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Quote: I miss mouse gestures, though. And Flash doesn't work correctly yet (at least, some of the sites I check). You can get mouse gestures. Get the latest nightly build off their site, that's what I did. And flash works fine, at least here. I have gotten the problem from the OP a few times, but that was moreso back in Beta 3 and Beta 4, it hasn't happened much in Beta 5. |
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aj5555
Member #9,033
September 2007
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Why were your expectations higher than reality? |
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GullRaDriel
Member #3,861
September 2003
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Quote: Why were your expectations higher than reality? Piccolo's style ? "Code is like shit - it only smells if it is not yours" |
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ImLeftFooted
Member #3,935
October 2003
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Goalie said: ... the memory handling is now phenomenal ... Yes I was excited about that. Unfortunately it would crash before I could ever reach the point where that mattered. Looks like I'll be stuck with FF2 for a while. The good news is the profiles transfer between 2 and 3 flawlessly |
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Neil Walker
Member #210
April 2000
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I'll miss FF2 when FF3 comes out fully. I usually go and make a cup of tea while I'm waiting for it to start up, and if FF3 is supposed to fix all the startup problems ... Neil. wii:0356-1384-6687-2022, kart:3308-4806-6002. XBOX:chucklepie |
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Slartibartfast
Member #8,789
June 2007
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I heard, I think over here, that in FF3 when you type in the address bar it looks up based on page title instead of address, can that be changed? (changed back to the old behavior of course ---- |
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ImLeftFooted
Member #3,935
October 2003
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Probably with some setting. You can change settings by going to the webpage named 'about:config'. |
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Slartibartfast
Member #8,789
June 2007
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I know about about:config, I just wanted to know if it was possible before I actually went ahead and installed it, because if I can't change it then I don't want to install it. ---- |
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MiquelFire
Member #3,110
January 2003
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Note, running off a USB key is slower than FF2 on a hard disk. Even Javascript is slower for some reason. I couldn't find the settings, but I'm not too worry about it for now. I just hope that there's a way to sort by URL unlike FF2. (Unless someone points me to a extension that allows that. It's annoying when the URL I want is http://www.example.com/, but http://www.example.com/somepage comes first and I never typed the URL in the taskbar) And this is just silly. --- |
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Mokkan
Member #4,355
February 2004
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I've been using FF3 for awhile. Works good for me.
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torhu
Member #2,727
September 2002
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I've been using FF 3 on winxp for more than a month now. It's less stable than 2.0, but most of the crashes/hangs seems to be because of Flash. As for mouse gestures, consider this your lucky day: |
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ReyBrujo
Moderator
January 2001
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Oh, I got it working. I had it installed at work, but hadn't installed it for Linux. -- |
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gnolam
Member #2,030
March 2002
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Quote:
I heard, I think over here, that in FF3 when you type in the address bar it looks up based on page title instead of address, can that be changed? (changed back to the old behavior of course
No. They had an about:config setting (browser.urlbar.richResults) to disable that godawful and inconsistent behavior, but they actually removed it. -- |
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BAF
Member #2,981
December 2002
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As for mouse gestures, consider this your lucky day: I'm using the real one. Nightly builds are perfectly stable and work with FF3. [edit] |
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