Firefox losing its glossy coat?
By Sharon Jackson in Reader
Posted in Browsers on September 15, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Has anyone else been having problems with Firefox recently? Sometimes it seems to just ‘break’ sites for the hell of it. Twitter is a favourite, the BBC News site rendered incorrectly today and it’s just happened with a website I am designing - it was looking OK til I refreshed it to check on a change I’d made and it broke. I thought I’d mucked up the code but it looked fine in Chrome and even IE8.
I have now switched my browser default to Chrome to try Google’s offering out more thoroughly.
What do you think? Are Mozilla growing to far too fast?
Comment by Vic Hall - September 15, 2009 on 4:14 pm
Whats wrong with opera?
Comment by - September 15, 2009 on 7:42 pm
I must admit that I haven’t noticed any breaking of websites, but I have noticed that it doesnt seam to be advancing as much as it needs to. I love the range of plugins available to add extra functionality and provide useful workarounds but they always slow the browser down in the long run. My current browser is Chrome, as it has been for a long time and as it will stay for a long while - it just is faster, especially faster than IE but also faster than Firefox mainly when starting.
Its a bit of a coincidence that you’ve blogged about it today because I have recently updated Chrome to its latest version which has updated the new tab page, its overall speeds and also the ‘Omnibox’ (address / search bar) and so far in the short time I’ve been using it - it still seams just as good as ever ![]()
Comment by bogas04 - September 16, 2009 on 8:01 am
Nope , its working gr8 here
BTW Chrome gave more “Broken Sites” than Firefox…
Chrome = Firefox - Features + Performance + Whoa Crashes + Opps! Broken sites + Resource eater
Comment by - September 16, 2009 on 8:07 am
Thanks for the comments - I’ve been a Faithful Firefox Follower for years but have been noticing problems lately. Maybe it’s Vista lol. I briefly flirted with Opera; maybe I should go had check it out again? Chrome seems OK so far but (bogas04) I do miss the Firefox features
Comment by Spencer Selander - September 20, 2009 on 9:49 am
I forgot to add: I mostly run nightly development builds of Firefox - both to give something back by testing, and because the latest builds are usually faster and better than the stable release version. No, I don’t think its gone too far, too fast - it just keeps getting better.
Comment by Sharon - September 20, 2009 on 10:51 am
Well I don’t know what’s going on then, something’s certainly amiss on occasion.
Comment by - October 10, 2009 on 10:47 am
Hey really a nice post!! I always prefer firefox browser for surfing but from last month i found many broken links and other problems like firefox has crashed.
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