Firefox
polycounter lvl 18
Ok, so I made the switch to Firefox a few weeks ago after everyone has been ranting and raving about it for months and months and I could take no more. I switched to see why most people consider it some kind of holy relic.
Here's a record of my experiences with it so far:
It crashed and refused to start up again, forcing me to use IE again. It has done this twice.
It crashed and then when I loaded it up again, everything was black. It loaded the pages ok but the browser itself was all black and I couldn't see any of the buttons.
It crashed and wiped all my bookmarks.
It crashed and wiped all my bookmarks again abd then restarted my PC, just because. Lost me an hours work on my IT coursework.
So, after a few weeks I'm going back to IE thank you very much. Sure I had the occaisional problem with it, but never on that level or that regularly.
You can keep it
Here's a record of my experiences with it so far:
It crashed and refused to start up again, forcing me to use IE again. It has done this twice.
It crashed and then when I loaded it up again, everything was black. It loaded the pages ok but the browser itself was all black and I couldn't see any of the buttons.
It crashed and wiped all my bookmarks.
It crashed and wiped all my bookmarks again abd then restarted my PC, just because. Lost me an hours work on my IT coursework.
So, after a few weeks I'm going back to IE thank you very much. Sure I had the occaisional problem with it, but never on that level or that regularly.
You can keep it
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Sometimes when it crashes (normally cuased by wierd plugins) it is still running in the background. Checking task mgr before launching it again takes care of that. The only time it really cashes on me is when I am running 3D plugins, but then so does IE. I guess this isn't so much for you as for other people that might be using Firefox. I love it, and will not be going back anytime soon to IE.
The only thing I don't like is the fact that it pops up "Document contains no data" windows sometimes if it can't get to a site, even if it works on refresh - is there a way to turn that off? o_O
I'm sorry for your losses... but IE crashed waaaaay more often than Firefox ever has :P
Scott
I don't know what was causing it, I didn't install and plug-ins or anything, just had a straight vanilla install.
The only real problem I had with IE was that every once in a while I'd need to clear out my temporary images folder to be able to save images properly.
I might try it again at some point, it's just that after all that I feel much better back with IE.
I've been using it all night wihout a problem so far
I could not get it to install flash no matter what I tried...so it got the boot !
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this can only be down to your user privileges. If you are admin on your machine, it's time to let yourself install stuff. Nothing to do with FF.
(btw when you qoute someone on this forum their name doesn't come up as being the one you quoted...)