Comments on: Down to 999,999

By: RJ

RJ — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 00:25:00 +0000

I use about half and half. When I work in Firefox, I absolutely love the tabs and the mouse gestures, but I hate that about half of the web apps I use for work don’t work right. When I work in IE, I absolutely love the speed and compatibility, but I hate that gestures don’t work and I have to do “open in new window.”Get firefox to work as cleanly with my applications and to open as quick as IE, then we’ll talk.PS. Dear Firefox…make it easy to control the update process and things like proxy settings so us IT folks will respect your product.

By: Kent

Kent — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 22:01:00 +0000

I don’t have any problems with Firefox either.Now Audacity, which I use to record podcasts and music- that’s another story. Want to see an application crash? Record some music with Audacity, add some labels to one of the tracks, try to backspace within a label to fix a type and, presto, crash city. Recording gone. Get to start over.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:56:00 +0000

I always amazed when I hear the performance argument. Firefox hardly ever crashes on me. Like maybe once every couple months. Firefox very rarely has a memory “leak” on me unless I forget and open way too many tabs. If I opened up that many IE windows it would take up too much memory, too.I always wonder what kind of things people are doing with Firefox to make it cause problems. I’m guessing that they are installing an extension that is causing the problems and if they got rid of the bad extension it would fix the problem.

By: c

Thu, 07 Sep 2006 21:25:00 +0000

This tech-savvy power user got sick of Firefox crashing, consuming 600 megs of RAM, and hanging while saving the smallest of files. 1.0.x? Great. Everything since has been a pig. Greasemonkey, Web Developer Toolbar, Google Notebook, and Gmail Skins are the only extensions I bother installing anymore, and that number’s going to drop since Gmail Skins has been broken since the latest Gmail update.Firefox was left in the dust by its own performance problems, I don’t know how anyone considering themself a power user can accept browsing so slowly all the time.-n00b