What Happened Firefox?
I’ve finally come to the end of the line with Firefox. Recently I’ve become very aware that it isn’t what it used to be and as a result I broke tradition and it was not the first thing I installed when I formatted my computer last week. Google Chrome was.
On Windows, 7 and XP, after a while I find Firefox takes more than 4 seconds to open, 4 seconds is an acceptable time for me to wait anything longer then I start clicking icons again or lossing my train of thought, yeah I know, repeatedly clicking on it doesn’t help anyone and when its finally woken up it makes the situation worse by opening all the windows at once yadda, yadda…
Anywho, what happened? I can remember the days when I could ask my sister what Firefox was and she would not have a clue, same with most people that don’t know so much about computers. Since then however Firefox is very much in the limelight and probably more so with the EU browser choice screen. Back in the day however Firefox was fast, quick, speedy! You clicked on the icon to open it up and it would open! Now though, it takes forever to load, its not even funny.
Anyway I have finally come to an end and have opted for a new browser, a young, thinner one. Google Chrome. Its pretty speedy and it cross platform on Windows and Ubuntu, although I’ve just downloaded the beta on Ubuntu. Its what I can remember Firefox used to be!
Firefox finally pushed me over the edge with its crashing/hanging in Ubuntu.. I’ve just been reading the Garrys Blog recommended by my friend Andrew, I would scroll down to read the rest of the post on Google Reader and not only would be jump to far, it would also keep scrolling down and when it wasn’t doing that it would be hanging.. At work, again on Ubuntu it seems to have randomly lost Flash support.. Not sure if that is Firefox or Ubuntu, I suppose the team at Ubuntu have taken the same stance as Apple have and don’t give a monkeys about supporting Flash… Roll on HTML5 I say.. Oh wait doesn’t Chrome support that?
What happened Firefox? you used to be cool!
/rant
