Is Firefox now my Internet Explorer?
Friday, January 29th, 2010
The funny thing about fanboys are their ability to ignore the bad news… but get this – Firefox is giving me more grief at the moment than Internet Explorer. I mean, what the fuck is going on at Mozilla lately?
First there’s the increasingly slower browsing experience, as Matt noted in Is Firefox Losing its Focus?… which makes me wonder what ever happened to the idea that a faster browser was a better browser?
Second, Firefox has been crashing at ten minute intervals all week on my system. As a user I don’t really give a damn why its doing that… its doing that because its not the best browser anymore. I reinstalled Firefox but it continues to crash.
Third, after reading Matt’s post where he mentioned the speed improvements offered by the latest Firefox update – well, I got ahead of myself. The update has somehow taken over the stylesheets of this website and practically every piece of text except for the first paragraph of articles and pages is now bold. Oh thanks, Mr Firefox. Spec-fucking-tacular.
Which begs the bastard point of this bastard situation (and I’ll bold it for everybody not just Firefox 3.6 users) – Is Firefox now my Internet Explorer?
I ask that question because time is money and Firefox costing me money (and time) is no different than Microsoft’s inherent bugs. No, none of the other sites I’ve worked on have this issue… what can I say? I had a persona enabled for a little while after the update and that may have done something askew… but as its disabled and the bolding remains then there is an issue… right? And even if this was somehow partly related to the persona – why the fuck have personas? Either way its Firefox’s intrusion onto my work day.
So spec-fucking-tacular. Thank you. Oh joy. Another Microsoft. All hail Fire-fucked.
