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Firefox Sucks
MV:
i just got prompted to update to firefox 3.6. so i did. firefox 3.6 sucks.
i now have a browser that skips and lags as i scroll up and down the page in gmail. wtf is happening to firefox? don't the people at mozilla know google is out to eat their lunch with the snappy chrome browser?
it seems like firefox is becoming the new internet explorer. unfortunately, chrome is lacking in too many ESSENTIAL features to make the switch, or i would. what are those features, you ask? print preview and default page zoom percentage/level. yes, yes, i know you can do a ctrl/+ in order to zoom in on a page, but chrome is too dumb to remember that page's zoom level the way firefox does. if you're using chrome on a high resolution monitor, you're just as well to take a shank to your eye sockets since the text will be small enough to render you suicidal. and google calls chrome's current iteration version 4? what? puh-lease. it's still a 0.x product if you ask me.
MV:
correction:
firefox 3.6 is doing the herky-jerky scroll thing on EVERY site, including this one. not just gmail. nicccccccccce.
MV:
okay, then. it's not just my imagination. firefox 3.6 really is the steaming pile of excrement i purported it to be. i downloaded and reinstalled the version of firefox just prior to 3.6, and everything is absolutely fine. unbelievable. if you're having the same problem with 3.6 as i, you can get version 3.5.8 by clicking here.
MABUSE:
--- Quote from: MV on March 12, 2010, 03:17:49 PM ---okay, then. it's not just my imagination. firefox 3.6 really is the steaming pile of excrement i purported it to be. i downloaded and reinstalled the version of firefox just prior to 3.6, and everything is absolutely fine. unbelievable. if you're in the same quandary as i, you can get firefox 3.5.8 by clicking here.
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I concur....try seamonkey! It has given me hours of joy, and it is so eager to please it can even be trained!!!!!
**M**
MV:
--- Quote from: MABUSE on March 12, 2010, 03:20:51 PM ---I concur....try seamonkey! It has given me hours of joy, and it is so eager to please it can even be trained!!!!!
**M**
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the problem i see with seamonkey is that it includes too many features i just don't use or need. for instance, it's got an email/newsgroup client which i wouldn't use because i go to gmail.com for mail and i don't use newsgroups (don't even know what one is, to be honest with you). i wouldn't use the web-feed reader or the html editor, and i definitely wouldn't use the IRC client.
i think this is why chrome is ultimately going to swallow up the browser market. give it 3 or 4 years and it will have all of the features people demand of it while still maintaining that simplicity people love about it. right now it's just too spartan for my taste.
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