[thelist] FireFox 3

Ben Dyer radicalbender at gmail.com
Wed Jun 18 12:12:29 CDT 2008


I'm having bad luck with Firefox as well.  Fortunately, I downloaded
MultiFirefox first:

http://www.codecontortionist.com/software/mac-osx-software/multifirefox/

...and then upgraded to the full version of Firefox 3.

However, I've been very unimpressed, and for some reason, Firefox 3
won't save my cookies, even though I'm explicitly instructing it to.
And with the 9,000 sites that I visit on a regular basis that requires
a login, that's simply unacceptable.  So, I've rolled back to Firefox
2.

While we're on the subject, has anyone else had a similar issue?  I'm
using the OS X version.

--Ben

On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 11:43 AM, Nan Harbison <nan at nanharbison.com> wrote:
> Wow, that is sobering to hear. I was JUST reading this article:
>
> Firefox 3.0 Record Download Attempt Crashes Mozilla Servers
> Mozilla hopes to successfully complete 5 million downloads of the Web
> browser in 24 hours and set a Guinness World Record.
>
> http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/browsers/showArticle.jhtml?arti
> cleID=208700161
>
> I was about to go get it. Maybe I will wait. Does it import your
> bookmarks/favorites from 2.0? Do all the plug ins we know and love have new
> downloadable versions that are compatible with 3.0?
>
> Nan
>
> Joel Canfield wrote----------------------------------------
> Just installed it. Instantly regretted it.
>
> Virtually none of the addons/plugins work (not unusual, just
> irritating.) Plus, it overwrote my old version without asking or telling.
> (Was that the default before? I don't remember.) Yes, I could have been more
> careful. With FireFox, I didn't expect to have to cover my backside.
>
> Some of the default behaviours are incredibly annoying. I start typing my
> own web address in the address bar, and instead of going to the history and
> matching me letter by letter, it does some random search as if it as
> suddenly become smarter than me.
>
> Overall look and feel fairly screams "Look! We're turning into Internet
> Explorer!" I do not want to re-learn the browser from scratch after I've
> spent two years customizing it to behave exactly as I wanted it to.
>
> I hate it. I don't know how I can hate FireFox, but I do.
>
>
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