damn Firefox 3.5 ...

[jalmir]

is it me or the damn thing is filled with bugs????

I use the tabs a lot ... now, the tabs will randomly "split" into 2 windows (a new firefox window appears and parts of my tabs go in that new window).

Randomly, the URL disapears if I click in the "URL field" (makes things hard when you want to copy the damn URL)

If I have 1 last tab open and hit CTRL+W Firefox closes ... ok I have a weird setup but it's making me crazy! (my firefox is set to open with the last tabs ... so when I close firefox and I want it to start with a blank tab, I now have to open a blank tab and close the others, didn't had to do that with previous version, just had to "close all tabs" and then close firefox)


it's filled with small annoying bugs! I hate that!

[cbogg]

you just have so many problems. firefox is not the best place for you to start.

[Tommy]

FF 3.5 sucks balls

It will randomly freeze on me on some sites, sometimes it wont open, sometimes it wont close, just pisses me off. Apparently its pretty well known that there are a lot of bugs.

[cbogg]

which is why I still have 3.0 baby

[noisewatter]

Mine works fine.

[smileymattj]

Firefox saw all the hype safari was getting and decided to be more like it.

Freaking mac with the spinning ball that never stops and the safari randomly committing suicide only when it knows you need it most, works fine till you actually need something.

[Munky]

I miss Firefox 0.9.3. Never had a single problem.

[blearyeyedme]

I've got no problems with 3.5 yet.

[03GT]

chrome baby... I use that primarily then switch to FF or IE when I have to.. which is getting more and more rare these days.

[jalmir]

unless Chrome has an option for the installation location, I'm not touching it ... I tried it when it came out and the thing installs itself in the "Documents and Settings" folder.

Uninstalled it and didn't look back.

[03GT]

unless Chrome has an option for the installation location, I'm not touching it ... I tried it when it came out and the thing installs itself in the "Documents and Settings" folder.

Uninstalled it and didn't look back.

I think it's still the same.. I could download it tomorrow and see about hacking the MSI to install somewhere else... google loves to install shiznit in to your profile.. they did the same crap with the cache files for google earth. bleh.

[Munky]

I think it's still the same.. I could download it tomorrow and see about hacking the MSI to install somewhere else... google loves to install shiznit in to your profile.. they did the same crap with the cache files for google earth. bleh.

You must not work in a large corporate enviroment, that becomes very useful with roaming profiles within a domain.

[03GT]

You must not work in a large corporate enviroment, that becomes very useful with roaming profiles within a domain.

until you have a multi-flavor environment where the profiles get corrupted when users switch from xp/2000/vista. Throw office 2003 and 2007 in the mix and you got a real sh1tstorm. We use roaming profiles, but when you have retarded users who set their cache in google earth to the maximum, save everything to their desktops, etc, their profiles get a little big and the log on process goes to hell. Easy enough to fix though, leave their preference files (you know those kml files) in their profile and re-direct the cache to the local machine.

any more questions?

[Munky]

until you have a multi-flavor environment where the profiles get corrupted when users switch from xp/2000/vista. Throw office 2003 and 2007 in the mix and you got a real sh1tstorm. ...

any more questions?

Yeah, it's called a domain standard. If your network administrators did their job right, you wouldn't have multiple operating systems or instances of software in a large environment. Any idiot with an MCP knows that.

[03GT]

Yeah, it's called a domain standard. If your network administrators did their job right, you wouldn't have multiple operating systems or instances of software in a large environment. Any idiot with an MCP knows that.

lol.. I take it you haven't worked for a "big" corporation and seen how things work with budgets (and especially "office politics").


oh, and an MCP means d1ck. All that means is you can pass a test on how Microsoft says you should do it. Since when does anybody follow that rule.

[jalmir]

I've got no problems with 3.5 yet.

that just means you don't use it enough ...



BTW ... 3.5 still has those damn memory leaks! Had to restart Firefox, 3 tabs and 750 MB of ram with 50% of the process ...

I'm starting to find IE appealing!

[noisewatter]

I keep wanting to go back to IE too, but I keep staying with FF because of the addons.

[03GT]

I keep wanting to go back to IE too, but I keep staying with FF because of the addons.

yep, that's the best feature of FF by far..

[jalmir]

I keep wanting to go back to IE too, but I keep staying with FF because of the addons.

same here ... too much usefull addons to let go easily!

[Qyn]

I was using Chrome because 3.0 was a POS that didn't let AdBlock run properly on my system. I am back for 3.5... and it is working beautifully.

[UrbanerMezei]

Safari 4 is faster.

[jalmir]

and it doesn't have addons ...

BTW, Firefox closing itself when closing the last tab is a feature you have to turn off in the about:config ... one less thing to be pissed about I guess!

[Tommy]

My biggest complaint with FF remains memory useage. There's no reason it shouldnt clear the cache by itself every once and a while. I tend to leave it open for a long time, and ill check and its using 1gb of ram and another of virtual. Thats just unacceptable.

[noisewatter]

My biggest complaint with FF remains memory useage. There's no reason it shouldnt clear the cache by itself every once and a while. I tend to leave it open for a long time, and ill check and its using 1gb of ram and another of virtual. Thats just unacceptable.

I have it set to clear all cookies, cache and private data when I close the window and I haven't experienced any memory problems.

[jalmir]

it's in fact related to bad flash player memory management ... nothing to do with cookies and cache.

Leave it open for more then a few hours and browse youtube ... you'll see the RAM going up but not coming down. I can do this with just 1 tab open! (this is basically a description of my days at work! lol)

[UrbanerMezei]

Yeah my ex girlfriend used to use the online game GAIA, the highest I ever saw Firefox spark up to was 2 gigs of memory usage after about 2 hours of her playing without closing and opening the browser.