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Webmaster Forum / Browsers / Mozilla Firefox / July 2008Is FF3 that bad?
From reading the last month or two of postings on here it sure looks like FF3 is buggy and troublesome. I'm always the last person to upgrade, since I dont like having to relearn software as as well as knowing new versions are often buggy. I still have FF2. Thanks > From reading the last month or two of postings on here it sure looks > like FF3 is buggy and troublesome. I'm always the last person to > upgrade, since I dont like having to relearn software as as well as > knowing new versions are often buggy. I still have FF2. > > Thanks not at all. The major complaints are the add-ons/extensions/themes haven't been updated yet. If you want, create a new profile just for FF3, and install it into its own program directory. This way, you can take it for a spin drive, and still have FF2 not affected by 3.  Signature*IMPORTANT*: Sorry folks, but I cannot provide email help!!!! Warning: Private emails sent to me may become public Peter Potamus & His Magic Flying Balloon: http://www.toonopedia.com/potamus.htm >> From reading the last month or two of postings on here it sure looks >> like FF3 is buggy and troublesome. I'm always the last person to [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > own program directory. This way, you can take it for a spin drive, and > still have FF2 not affected by 3. I shared concerns too after reading ng threads but went ahead and upgraded without problem. Figured if I did, your previous advice on profile would have bailed me out. >>> From reading the last month or two of postings on here it sure looks >>> like FF3 is buggy and troublesome. I'm always the last person to [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > upgraded without problem. Figured if I did, your previous advice on > profile would have bailed me out. Appearances are deceiving. You see perhaps 10 or 12 people per day come in here with problems. Even if that kept up for an entire year, that would mean 3600 problems. 3600 problems out of 12 MILLION installations? Thats less than half of one percent. Even if you factor in the newsgroup usage, and people that wouldnt post and so on, your 'problem' is still less than 2 or 3 percent worldwide. And a lot of these 'problems' are not really problems, but simply people not being used to the way the program works, and many of the 'problems' are related to add-ons not being updated yet as well. It goes like this everytime there is a new version. It will calm down in a month or so >>>> From reading the last month or two of postings on here it sure looks >>>> like FF3 is buggy and troublesome. I'm always the last person to [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > It goes like this everytime there is a new version. It will calm down in > a month or so That's what I figured. Would not even know about FF3 if not for ng. They were not telling you there was a new version of FF available but were still adding fixes to FF2. I like to let dust settle before upgrading. Waited over 6 months to get a computer with Vista and there were still growing pains. > From reading the last month or two of postings on here it sure looks > like FF3 is buggy and troublesome. I'm always the last person to > upgrade, since I dont like having to relearn software as as well as > knowing new versions are often buggy. I still have FF2. > > Thanks Over here FF rocks (FF 3 Dutch version) ... other then the weird bookmark thing. That is really not well thought. But otherwise it works like a charm :-) I agree... FF3 in and of itself works well, but it does seem to be taking longer this time around to get upgraded addons that work properly. >From reading the last month or two of postings on here it sure looks >like FF3 is buggy and troublesome. I'm always the last person to >upgrade, since I dont like having to relearn software as as well as >knowing new versions are often buggy. I still have FF2. I wanted to give FF3 a try but after having it fail to come up twice I think I'm giving up on it for a while. Luckily it's easy to just remove FF3 and reinstall FF2 without losing anything. I even went to the point of removing all of my addons thinking that might be why FF3 wouldn't run on my system (even in FF safe mode) but it still wouldn't come up and looking through the Mozilla forums didn't provide any real help. I'm sure the problem will be worked out eventually but until I have some reason that I need FF3 or hear that the install problems have been resolved I'll stay with FF2. I know most people won't run into the problem but I've heard from two other friends of mine that they also couldn't get it to run. So from that anecdotal evidence and reading the Mozilla forum it does appear a decent number of people have the issue. >>From reading the last month or two of postings on here it sure looks >>like FF3 is buggy and troublesome. I'm always the last person to [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >reading the Mozilla forum it does appear a decent number of people >have the issue. In rersponse to the question "Is FF3 that bad?", I would like to ask "How bad?". I'm no expert either on computers or on Firefox, but I have used the latest version almost since the day it came out, and I have had no problems. A few questions - Yes. However, they were answered in this group, and by searching the Internet. Good luck! _________________________________ Old Enough to know I don't know a thing .... > I wanted to give FF3 a try but after having it fail to come up twice I > think I'm giving up on it for a while. Luckily it's easy to just [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > come up and looking through the Mozilla forums didn't provide any real > help. close FF3, then click on the windows start button, then run and enter: firefox.exe -p this will start the FF profile manager. Create a test profile and let FF3 use that. Does FF3 work now? Signature*IMPORTANT*: Sorry folks, but I cannot provide email help!!!! Warning: Private emails sent to me may become public Peter Potamus & His Magic Flying Balloon: http://www.toonopedia.com/potamus.htm |
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