I (reluctantly) moved to 5.0, even though my favorite add-on (tab mix plus) was said not to work - but it does. Haven't noticed anything screwy yet, but I live in fear. My work computer is not as good as my computer at home and I haven't updated my work computer yet - hopefully they address the memory leak (problem? feature?) that slows down my work computer. Of course, what I wanr addressed is a new computer for work - if it's half the computer I use at home I'd be satisfied.
Had that trouble with the Delicious add on until I found on a forum that a beta version works, though it is missing some of the bells and whistles of an older version.
But but but if it is so buggy, why keep using it? I've tried FF several times, and found it as huge as IE but crashier, esp with plugins. Much fewer problems with Chrome, at least for me...
Because I'm on a Mac and IE was discontinued a long long time ago. Safari early on was not very compatible with most web sites, though it is much much better now. So a bit of a habit I guess.
Firefox is currently pretty stable for me but during one recent episode of buggy crashiness I found that there were warring camps of open source developers fighting for preeminence.
One side was coalesced around trying to deploy FF in a corporate environment so they wanted to include all the crap that made IE suck
and the other side wanted to exclude exploitable functionality that the spammers were using to make life miserable.
So I guess it depends on who is up and who is down at the FF developers ball
Just this past 12 months it seems like the chopice is no longer just speed, like it mostly used to be, but which browser works with what sites... On speed and features I like Opera best. But in the last release Gmail (of all things) would not load in Opera; that got fixed, but Guvera still does not work in Opera (download icons don't display) and some other sites get their layout messed up. What had driven me into Opera was Firefox continually needing a page reload to load certain sites, though that seems fixed now...Don't like IE and still hung over from wasting time trying to install Chrome a while back and not being able to get it to load at all. Am getting thoroughly fed up with trying to remember which browser currently works with which sites.
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All my favorite add ons are behind the 8ball
I am seriously considering declining new updates until the bells and whistles can catch up
One side was coalesced around trying to deploy FF in a corporate environment so they wanted to include all the crap that made IE suck
and the other side wanted to exclude exploitable functionality that the spammers were using to make life miserable.
So I guess it depends on who is up and who is down at the FF developers ball