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FireFox 3.0.x is so unstable !!


It seems that FireFox goes more unstable on each minor version-up :(

The most exasperating crash is that FireFox crashes when I'm writing a blog!! When I was writing a little long blog, I sometimes open new tabs to find information. Then suddenly it's happened. Yeah, FireFox crashed. And we can restart FireFox with the last opened sites. However, the blog content was gone!! How provoking!!

Also I'm worry about that FireFox 3 uses so much memories. And the start-up is much slower than IE.

What's wrong with FireFox team!?

# And also there are FlashPlayer issues.


There is the second option. It's The Google Chrome. It's first and light. I like that. However it sometimes behaviors clumsily. And unfortunately the Google Chrome can't handle some Japanese characters and some web-site aren't displayed correctly. The worst thing I don't like is that the sound is very small. I don't view the YouTube with Google Chrome though they are smae Google products.


The third option is IE8. I use IE8 when I view the YouTube, Yahoo! music, MTV and when I debug Flex applications.


Comments
Try Opera's Gravatar It's not like Firefox and Chrome are the only alternative browsers available.

Opera 9.5 is an excellent browser, give it a try.

http://www.opera.com/
# Posted By Try Opera | 5/23/09 10:48 AM
Try Opera's Gravatar Latest is 9.64 even :)
# Posted By Try Opera | 5/23/09 10:49 AM
Jeremy's Gravatar Try the latest beta of Firefox 3.5, its way better than 3.0.x.
# Posted By Jeremy | 5/23/09 11:11 AM
dbmuse's Gravatar i'm running firefox 3.5b2 on my MAC... no problems. Must be a windows thing. I suggest reinstalling windows every 6 months just to keep it stable.... ha buy a MAC.
# Posted By dbmuse | 5/23/09 3:34 PM
John's Gravatar Little long blog??
# Posted By John | 5/23/09 5:39 PM
John's Gravatar And what about Webkit, the fastest browser on this planet? Lot to investigate bud
# Posted By John | 5/23/09 5:41 PM
radekg's Gravatar I'm running Firefox 3.0.10 on my Ubuntu and no trouble with it at all. I'm using wordpress, debugging Flex and no issues. Must be something wrong with your Windows.
# Posted By radekg | 5/24/09 2:23 AM
zac spitzer's Gravatar Did you try safe mode? usually it's always an addon or two or perhaps a corrupt profile
# Posted By zac spitzer | 5/25/09 5:10 PM
Rey Bango's Gravatar As was mentioned, safe mode is a good way to determine if your add-ons are causing you problems but if the issues are intermittent, then that won't help.

If you would, could you please go to your browser address bar and type in "about:crashes". This will display links to crash reports of your most recent crashes if you chose to submit them to Mozilla. This will help us in figuring out what caused your crash. If you can send me the links, the would be very helpful.

Lastly, ask yourself this. How many companies actually contact users directly to try to help them out? At Mozilla, we do because we care about our users.
# Posted By Rey Bango | 5/27/09 5:27 AM
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