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Member since November 3, 2005

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    Reck Essie

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  1. Review - Mozilla Firefox for Windows (v2)

    1.5 Final (Nov 30, 2005)

    I have the same experience as others. I lost my bookmarks, all extensions broke, and I have had nothing but problems since upgrading.

    And to those telling me to take backups of profiles and so on and so forth, I have just one thing to tell you:

    THIS IS NOT WHAT I EXPECT FROM FINISHED SOFTWARE!

    I am not a hardcore geek. I try to stay updated. If I have to play around with Firefox and do all kinds of workarounds, then APPARENTLY IT IS NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME AND SHOULD NOT BE MARKETED AS SUCH.

    I need it to just work!

    All of those fans who are now defending 1.5's incredibly weak upgrade support are doing nothing but hurting the browser.

    Firefox isn't new either. It's been out as a FINAL version for a year, and before that there was the Mozilla suite. One would have thought that after many years they would be able to get this right.

    I will continue to try Firefox, but for now it simply does not cut it, and no number of excuses and workarounds can fix that if you want to reach a wider audience.

  2. Review - Mozilla Firefox for Windows (v2)

    1.5 RC1 (Nov 3, 2005)

    I was wary of this program because of the hype, and it seems that I was right...

    Pros:
    - Easy to use
    - Nice tabbed browsing

    Cons:
    - Bloated
    - Slow
    - Crashes all the time
    - Lack of cool features, nothing real to offer compared to IE
    - Extensions are buggy and feel like an afterthought
    - Didn't live up to the security claims (still has open security holes)
    - Aggressive and obnoxious fan base which terrorizes people who don't use Firefox

    Yes, the last point is actually important to me. The Firefox fan base has a terrible reputation, and rightly so.

    Let's hope this product matures a bit, and its users too...

  3. Comment - Firefox 1.5 Final Released

    1.5 RC1 (Nov 30, 2005 - 2:45 PM)

    Actually gawd21, Opera consistently shows better JS performance than Firefox in tests.

    Other than that they both support 100% JS so that's not really an issue anyway.