So the new firefox is out and everyone is excited...except me. I have used Firefox 3 since launch and I must say that I am not impressed. It's not terrible but it's not end all be all product that everyone has been jacking off to. I must say that the product deserves perhaps half a stalk at best.
I can only go by my personal experience. I consider myself a unique user because I usually end up browsing with about 30 sites open at the same time. My ADHD/hypomanic state prevents me from focusing on one wesite at a time. Usually, I end up searching for many many topics because the 1 second it takes to load a site is 1 second too long and I must be distracted by another. I go through tab after tab in quick succession making rapid decisions on what link to click on or what topic I will explore next.
And in this type of browsing firefox 3 fails. It continues to crash on both my vista ultimate box and winxp pro fresh install lappy. It continues to crash when I visit certain sites with flash heavy/java running at the same time. How do I know it's firefox 3? Firefox 2 works fine. IE 7 works fine. Opera 9 works fine. Hell, even my mobile phone running opera 8 opens these pages with no problem. Plus, the same websites that I've been visitng with firefox 2 are now giving me problems. Who knows? It still may not be firefox's fault but the fact of the matter is my lifestyle is hindered and I don't like it. I'm sorting through the error to isolate the problem but I smell a firefox update coming soon.
So in conclusion, I give it a 'meh' rating for now
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