Comments on: 5 Reasons Why I Don’t Like Firefox

By: Bob Tompson

Bob Tompson — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:46:23 +0000

seems to freeze with blank white screen when going in to bookmark link. not as user friendly as Google.

By: Archy

Archy — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 13:51:05 +0000

Regarding Step 1:
You _do_ realise that Firefox’s boot times and ability to completely save & restore current tasks mean that this “restart” takes only a few seconds? Besides, you’re forgetting the fact that it actually has access to those resources – I don’t consider it a chore to wait 20 seconds when I am getting a new theme/addon/plugin.

Regarding Step 4:
Uh, I like the fact that Firefox is making sure I don’t pay twice for my order, or send the same email twice. That’s why it gives a simple warning. Sure beats “This window is trying to activate ActiveX content. Please remove this annoying message and get on with whatever the hell you were doing.” Meanwhile, Chrome’s probably saving and sending your Credit Card details off to some organised crime ring.

They’re personal frustrations, obviously.

By: Marianne Hageman

Marianne Hageman — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:27:34 +0000

I HAHE FIREFOX. I WANT TO LEAVE IT.

By: Mynk

Mynk — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 01:56:08 +0000

“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

By: Vygantas Lipskas

Vygantas Lipskas — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 07:25:25 +0000

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

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 06:54:53 +0000

I think if you actually read the error message in 4, you would realize why you can’t “just go back”.

By: Simon Houston

Simon Houston — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:46:15 +0000

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.

By: Mick

Mick — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:42:33 +0000

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.

By: d

Sat, 01 Sep 2007 19:48:36 +0000

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.