Comments on: Firefutz 3.0

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:19:23 +0000

Thanks, Kate. The Smart Bar was driving me NUTS!! Other than that, I’m liking FF3. For the time being, anyway.

By: Ron

Ron — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:37:51 +0000

At the moment, I have mixed feelings about the latest Firefox. I’m running it on 3 different computers, with different experiences on each system. When this browser works, it does a great job. I can run a gazillion tabs without it slowing down. But when it dies … it makes me think that the acronym, FF3, really stands for F’ing FireFox.

So far, on one computer, I had to reinstall after FF3 after it crashed and destroyed my browser profile. On another computer, Firefox has been randomly crashing and I have yet to identify why. On my laptop, Firefox is working fine (so far). But I don’t have the warm fuzzy feeling that I can trust it to continue.

Of course, when has a new version of any program worked as it should?

Rons last blog post..I’ll admitted it! I was wrong!

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:26:04 +0000

The answer is simple:

Opera 9.5.

Opera will restore your exact browser session (to within a minute or so of your last action). Most of the stuff you do in FF with add-ons, Opera has installed already, and they have a very robust community for new widgets (add-ons). Also, Skins. Lots of skins. But the old Opera 7 skin is still the best — when you d/l 9.5, trust me, the skin will look ugly, but you just have to find one you like.

Plus, Opera 9.5 is backward compatible with almost everything in the previous versions.

And when it comes to opening multiple tabs at a time, it’s as fast as FF.

This is not a paid post. I really am saying all this because Opera is my browser of choice. I don’t even have Firefox on my home computer, and I only have it at work because I have to do cross-browser compatibility tests.

And hey, if you don’t like Opera, you could always get Safari for PC. It’s not bad.

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By: metal dad

metal dad — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 13:09:36 +0000

i’ve been using Firefox forever and have really enjoyed using it instead of the dreaded IE. i downloaded and installed 3 and discovered, to my dismay, that most of the extensions i use frequently were not compatible. also it crashed repeatedly.
#1 son has been an Opera user for some time and has been ragging me to give it a shot. i used Opera back in v3 or 4 days and thought it was a pretty good browser so i downloaded v 9.5 and i like it fine.
it has some quirks that i’m not real fond of but it doesn’t crash on the most benign sites and i like the fairly small footprint.
methinks Firefox has really blown it with v3.

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By: rammer

rammer — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:31:27 +0000

I installed it, but it didn’t even start. The task would show up in the task manager and then it crashed prior to bringing up a window. I assumed it was due to some addon incompatibility. Glad to hear I’m not missing out on anything important.

I simply will not use any browser without the functions of ad block, no script and session saver. It’s not safe and it’s not fun.

By: Donna B.

Donna B. — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 23:47:12 +0000

Steve, considering the age (and my general abuse)of the computer I use most of the time, memory or HD or just about anything may be ready to go.

As with my cars, I’ll use it until then. No telling what new innovations will come out in the 6 months to a year that this one may last.

That reminds me, it’s time for a data backup!

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By: alf

alf — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 19:15:12 +0000

Can’t remember my Linux version ever crashing. At first the drop down annoyed me but have gotten used to it. Glad I moved to Kubuntu and stripped Microsoft XP off my system

By: Venomous Kate

Venomous Kate — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:17:02 +0000

I just reverted back to Firefox 2.whatever following these instructions. Soooo much better now. Venomous Kates last blog post..What’s So Social About A Monologue?

By: Venomous Kate

Venomous Kate — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 17:00:41 +0000

It's the browser crashing, Steve. But it's happening often enough that it's driving me nuts. Venomous Kates last blog post..What’s So Social About A Monologue?

By: McGehee

McGehee — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 16:38:16 +0000

Firefox 3 crashes for me (just Firefox) fairly often too — less often than the beta did, but at least once a day. I always manage to get my session back though.

If FF3 were crashing my computer altogether, I’d either be back to 2.0.0.623705438568 or whatever the previous version was, or I would have gone over entirely to using Opera.