Is it me or has FF stability gone downhill

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boogerjones

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I'm not sure about that. I made a post earlier about FF stability seeming to get worse, but I discovered that some of it was probably due to extensions that didn't officially support FF 1.5.

I think that until you can give very specific examples, then it's unfair to make that claim.

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Kr0z

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yeh i think firefox has gone downhill aswell, since i've been using opera i've never looked back

In the same boat. Switched to Opera and I'm quite happy now.

I think that Mozilla's scrappy coding and lack of professional programmers is biting it in the butt.

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I think that Mozilla's scrappy coding and lack of professional programmers is biting it in the butt.

Uh. Right. Where do people come up with these insane theories? Yeah, the Mozilla coders are amateurs, that's why a lot of them are employed by tiny/neverheard companies such as Google, IBM, Novel, SUN, etc.

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*Looks at his opened Firefox browser and wonders, when have I ever had problems with this...* That could take a while! Since all the posts about FF and it's memory usage, people now start talking about its stability, unless you give me specific examples of your problems instead of just noding your heads, I don't think I see any reasons in stability downfall. FF works way better than IE and I have never had any problems with it, it works perfectly with no glitches what so ever.

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Uh. Right. Where do people come up with these insane theories? Yeah, the Mozilla coders are amateurs, that's why a lot of them are employed by tiny/neverheard companies such as Google, IBM, Novel, SUN, etc.

Working for two companies would I believe be a breach of contract assuming it was part of the conditions when they signed up. I remember people leaving Mozilla to work for Google not the other way round.

This thread was inevitable, sooner or later people will complain about firefox, it's not a perfect browser and people should realise that. I think people can't comprehend the fact that FF like any other browser has faults.

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supernova_00

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Working for two companies would I believe be a breach of contract assuming it was part of the conditions when they signed up. I remember people leaving Mozilla to work for Google not the other way round.

This thread was inevitable, sooner or later people will complain about firefox, it's not a perfect browser and people should realise that. I think people can't comprehend the fact that FF like any other browser has faults.

90% of the devs work for companies like Google, Novel, Sun, IBM and a bunch of other companies. Most of them are employed by those companies to specifically work on firefox code. Check out the google and IBM job listing I bet there are still a few position open to work on firefox.

EDIT: here is one for google, one for ibm

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supernova_00

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IBM's corporation users only Firefox in the workplace so they have people there to work on firefox to help make it better...be it for the end users or themselves. It sounds confusing but its not....IBM uses firefox and finds a bug with some webapp, IBM software coder makes a patch for firefox.

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Working for two companies would I believe be a breach of contract assuming it was part of the conditions when they signed up. I remember people leaving Mozilla to work for Google not the other way round.

This thread was inevitable, sooner or later people will complain about firefox, it's not a perfect browser and people should realise that. I think people can't comprehend the fact that FF like any other browser has faults.

Of course it isn't a perfect browser.

I don't have a problem with people complaining about valid bugs or design decisions, what I do have a problem with is people who make comments without bothering to do a simple search to see if their comments have any truth in them (like the first paragraph of your reply).

So Opera is the only independent browser that isn't tied up with all kinds of huge corporation that just want to dominate the world?

Well, considering that Opera is a stock traded company I would say that it's as tied up with wanting to dominate the world as one can get.

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amr_01

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IBM's corporation users only Firefox in the workplace so they have people there to work on firefox to help make it better...be it for the end users or themselves. It sounds confusing but its not....IBM uses firefox and finds a bug with some webapp, IBM software coder makes a patch for firefox.

If you're trying to say that IBM employees only use firefox, that's incorrect. I am working at IBM right now, and we're not using firefox, we have the option to, but it's not like we have to.

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bkellner

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I can honestly say that 90% of my computer time i based on the web. I use firefox, and have never had a problem other than some websites finding a way around popup blocking - but that's pretty much the same with all browsers anyway.

No problems with firefox. By the way, I've used Opera and IE for a long time as well, and always find myself coming back to Firefox. Opera displays like 50% of pages incorrectly, and IE just doesn't have the tabs or feel that I like when using Firefox.

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