5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Firefox
September 1, 2007
It’s time for my final “5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like” post. Firstly it was Internet Explorer, then Opera and now… Firefox. For obvious reasons I won’t post “5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Safari” as Safari 3 is still a beta. I hope that you enjoyed those posts, sooner or later I will come back to this “5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like” posts again. Till then I hope that most of those reasons and/or problems/annoyances will be fixed soon. And here it comes…
1. Firefox needs to be restarted after each add-on and/or theme installation.
2. It has very less features so you have to install dozens of add-ons. Why I don’t like to install add-ons? See 1’st reason.
3. Poor download manager.
4. Sometimes happens when I click back (why can’t it just BACK?).
5. I don’t know why but Firefox team ignores some of the security issues. Do you like that?
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I really dont like the 5th reason.
Hope to not see unfixed issues someday,
btw there are filled bugs in bugzilla unfixed since years.
For example the page zoom feature was in development for 8 years lol (started in 1999 and finished in 2007),
for me this dont sound very good for open source project, whole 8 years for one feature this is like Microsoft with IE 6 and IE 7 took almost same amount of time.
Mozilla should improve this part and fix the “ancient bugs” faster.
Its really stupid to waste time in tracking and reporting some bug and then surprise the bug was already reported before few years.
Firefox is always in a catch-22 in the internet community. Some, like yourself, want all these different features built in because you don’t like add-ons. Others want Firefox to _drop_ some features because they feel Firefox isn’t light enough.
1 is slightly skewed, afaik you can install multiple extensions or themes before restarting. Although needing to restart firefox just to apply a theme is a pita.
I think if you actually read the error message in 4, you would realize why you can’t “just go back”.
I do understand, if every web browser would show this message then I would understand but with Opera I never had any similar problems when using BACK
“Firefox is always in a catch-22 in the internet community. Some, like yourself, want all these different features built in because you don’t like add-ons. Others want Firefox to _drop_ some features because they feel Firefox isn’t light enough.”
how come then, opera has so many features, (infact most addons are ‘inspired’ by allerady avaible features in opera).. yet it is known to be a very light and fast browser