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Grrrrr…

July 25, 2009 - 3:35 pm
Irradiated by LabRat Comments Off

I love Firefox, but it seems like with the last several updates they break more shit than they fix. First “save and quit” stopped working reliably, and now it doesn’t seem to be an option at all. Better yet, I seem to have partially lost “button” functionality; I’ve been unable to submit comments at three blogs and all search functions I’ve tried so far are now useless.

STOP ADDING FEATURES AND FIX YOUR BROWSER, FIREFOX.

Posted Boring Technodrivel, Ranting |

No Responses to “Grrrrr…”

  1. SmartDogs Says:
    July 25th, 2009 at 4:21 pm

    It could suck worse.

    You could be one of the losers like me who’s still stuck with internet explorer…

  2. Jim Says:
    July 25th, 2009 at 7:09 pm

    Stuck with? What, at work? I’m confused. As for Firefox picking up creeping featuritis, its a bit of a bugger that the update mechanism which is so handy for closing emergent security holes can backfire like that.

    Jim

  3. Phil Says:
    July 26th, 2009 at 5:16 am

    As a non-computer geek who is required to use computers and several types of software on a daily basis, it seems to me that the people who design the software insist upon “improving” their product constantly to the point that the software is nearly unusable.

    Firefox seems to be a good example of this. When I first got it, I was delighted that I no longer got a long list of attacks shown by my virus and ad software. However, every time I get an update from them now, I know that it will run more slowly (sometimes by a lot) and I also know that I will review their list of added features and not find one that I would consider to be either helpful or necessary.

    This is not just Firefox, of course. Others are much worse, but I had expected better of FF.

  4. Adam Says:
    July 26th, 2009 at 7:56 am

    Entropy being the natural state of all things, this isn’t altogether surprising and is something I run into as a developer in just about any type of software.

    Hence the reason I switched to Google Chrome. It’s everything Firefox was on first release (and then some), and I’ve never had it crash on me, randomly slow down, and so far no application has tried to install any kind of search bar into it.

  5. Peter Says:
    July 27th, 2009 at 9:42 am

    We’ve used Firefox for a couple of years, and the last six months or so it’s definitely deteriorated.

  6. Tomcatshanger Says:
    July 27th, 2009 at 3:00 pm

    Firefox and Google Chrome drove me back to IE.

    At least Microsoft defaults to ASKING you to update.