> I wouldn't be so snide about it but for the fact that I LIKE the >browser for some things, and I keep hearing about how other people >like it and what a quantum leap it is over other browsers, but then >when I point out that it's NOT all sweetness and light I get answers >like these.
I haven't used Firefox on the Mac in a little while. Don't remember why I stopped, but I'm sure I had a reason. (I loved Camino and Chimera, but something happened when they changed to "firefox" and things went down hill). I have moved away from Firefox on the PC for any machines running XP SP2 or 2003 SP1 (the versions with built in firewall and IE popup blocking). On Windows, Firefox is a less than glorious experience. In fact, if it wasn't for the popup blocker I wouldn't use it on ANY version of Windows. IE is far superior. It is more stable, faster, more compatible, and doesn't drag the performance of the machine to a halt after you open up more than three instances of it (I don't run in Tabs, I run with multiple whole windows). The three primary complaints I have with Firefox on Windows is 1: slows the machine to a crawl if you open up more than three windows. 2: Often crashes when you close a window that had a video playing (I deal with video conferencing, so this is VERY often for me). Once it crashes, you get no warning... what seems to happen is, the instance doesn't actually exit. So you can't open up any new windows, and your machine grinds to a halt. The only way out is to close any other Firefox windows that are open, then go into the Task Manager, and kill the firefox process that is still running (and chewing up 50 MB of RAM and 75% of the processor time). And #3, load any screen with more than about a dozen images and Firefox all but hangs, and takes the rest of the computer with it. Oh, and #4... Firefox doesn't seem to understand how to not take over the entire processor. So when it does something it isn't happy with, and slows down, it takes the entire computer with it. Now that I think about it, I think that is what I didn't like about it on the Mac... too often it would run into a page it didn't like (too many images, too much data, bad javascript, whatever) and instead of it slowing down by itself, it took over the whole Mac and brought everything to a halt (spinning beach ball happened WAY too often and when it did, it happened system wide). Along the same lines of why I hate Stuffit these days... if you try to stuff or unstuff something from the Finder, it takes over the whole finder and you can do nothing else until it is done. But that's ok, now that Apple isn't including Stuffit on new Macs, and Allume (or whoever owns it this week) has decided to fore go Stufits Mac roots (what would Raymond Lau say!), and concentrate on the Windows market... they are as good as dead. <sigh> I remeber having a chat with Raymond Lau where he was trying to talk me into using Stuffit for my uploads to a BBS instead of Packit, because he felt it was better compression and he wanted people to start using it so it would develop a following (he succeeded in talking me into the switch). And now Allume thinks they can convince PC users to drop Zip as the compression of choice in favor of Sit. HA HA HA HA HA! -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
