Comments on: What’s Your Take on Firefox 3? http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-your-take-on-firefox-3/ Mon, 28 May 2012 13:16:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: dmac http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-your-take-on-firefox-3/#comment-328659 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:24:51 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3541#comment-328659 The update to Firefox 3 for OS X destroyed all my users profiles . I re-installed last version of 2 and all is well.

]]> By: brad http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-your-take-on-firefox-3/#comment-328658 Sun, 24 Aug 2008 17:25:11 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3541#comment-328658 I can’t stand the scrolling differences between firefox and safari. Firefox is so choppy and rough, while safari is as smooth as can be. I can’t bring myself to use ff3 over safari.

]]> By: Don Parr http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-your-take-on-firefox-3/#comment-328657 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:03:37 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3541#comment-328657 There has to be something else going on with these reports of crashes, beach balls, etc.? I’m running FF3 on both my Macs, iBook G4 (PPC) and Intel Core 2 Duo iMac, as my daily default browser, and it has been working flawlessly. No crashes, no beach balls and no problems. Both Macs are running 10.5.4, but FF3 ran just as well, for me, under 10.5.3.

]]> By: Jason http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-your-take-on-firefox-3/#comment-328656 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:54:16 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3541#comment-328656 I’m still using it every day, it’s my primary browser. But I am crashing. A lot. Still. Since the beta versions. More since the RC versions. Starting with a fresh profile didn’t help. I have tried running a “bare” profile for a while — no extensions, no baggage from my old profiles. Hasn’t helped. So I went back to my standard profile + extensions. I get crashes between 2-6 times a day. Always when opening or closing tabs.

Crash signature is always the same:

objc_msgSend

Crash reason is always the same:

EXC_BAD_ACCESS / KERN_PROTECTION_FAILURE

It’s evidently pretty common; it’s the #1 reason for crashes on the Mac platform. I learned a new command last week to help troubleshoot… Type “about:crashes” in the address bar to see your crash info and get it analyzed. Interesting if not terribly useful.

I keep hoping the crashing will get better soon as I really prefer Firefox to Safari, but I may be heading back to Safari soon.

]]> By: bala chandar http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-your-take-on-firefox-3/#comment-328655 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:39:31 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3541#comment-328655 Its still buggy, i get beach balled every time i load the browser – the keyboard shortcuts at times don’t work! I’m sticking with safari.

]]> By: Alex Miller http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-your-take-on-firefox-3/#comment-328654 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:48:26 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3541#comment-328654 I was similarly turned off by the UI till I found the Aronnax themes which rock:

http://www.takebacktheweb.org/

Highly recommended!

]]> By: Adrian http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-your-take-on-firefox-3/#comment-328653 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:35:29 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3541#comment-328653 I installed FF3 and initially liked it, but then found that my bookmarks were destroyed. Every time I tried to repair them they got worse, to the point that the entries in my list of bookmarks were getting random URLs from my surfing history. I tried to lodge a bug report but you have to have an account, at which point I thought, “enough” and now I use Safari exclusively. I know other people who went back to FF2, but that was always crashing on me, so Safari it is from now on.

]]> By: Paulius http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-your-take-on-firefox-3/#comment-328652 Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:18:42 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3541#comment-328652 I think with each new version there is more bugs that coming out. Submitting feedback for Firefox team while it was in beta did not made anything better.

Scrooling is one of the most annoying problems that I have and its not fixed after beta 1 came out. Scrolling is freezing when opening in tabs a lot of web sites. I don’t understand how come new version can be tested if on all my three machines its having same problem.

There is Some visual elements like creating New Folder which always gets created inside selected folder in Bookmarks is really bad visual design. Find “Ctrl + F” has buttons Next and Previews is in opposite directions.

If Safari would have Side Bar for Bookmarks like Firefox dose I would be more than happy to switch. But since Apple is still has no idea how to implements this than I will stick with Firefox.

]]> By: raj http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-your-take-on-firefox-3/#comment-328651 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 05:10:01 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3541#comment-328651 I really like Firefox 3! Now, if it would stop hanging my entire machine (Leopard, latest updates), such that I have to hold down the power button to reboot and then check the drive when rebooting, I’d like it even more and actually use it! Until they fix the hanging problem, I’ve gone back to Camino. :(

]]> By: pandaslist http://gigaom.com/apple/whats-your-take-on-firefox-3/#comment-328650 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 04:18:42 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=3541#comment-328650 FF3 is the best I’ve ever handled and honestly I don’t see explorer coming back from this (like it was gonna come back before!!)
But honestly Microsoft has a lot to worry about, and for the most powerful company in the world new competition has come with Flock as they mention in this website:
http://www.themostpowerfulcompany.com

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