Pissed off with Firefox written 5 years ago

I like my firefox, it’s good and extensible and renders things nicely and has cool Live bookmarks, and generally does everything I want it to.

Recently though, I’ve noticed lots of little things that work together to ruin the Fx experience:

• Crashes. Oh so many crashes. Yes it’s because I’m browsing x-hundred websites at once, each with a million images and flash doodads on, but heck, stoppit!

• Plug-in hell. Even browsing the FireFoxFlicks site causes Fx to crash every now and then, due to the Quicktime plugin crappyness, and this is a site designed for Fx, by people that like Fx! And that’s not even mentioning Java applets.

• Safety Myths. You’re encouraged to believe that Fx is safer than all the browsers, that you can generally be stupid and Fx will fight off the nasty baddies. Bollocks. I clicked a link the other day, and all of a sudden Fx starts jumping up and down around the screen, spawning popups, and launching millions of thunderbird sessions. In the aftermath I found many subscriptions to an obscene newsgroup, and a corrupted Thunderbird profile.

• Find as you type. I love find as you type, I just start hammering the keyboard and I find things I’m typing. This is all well and good until, say, I want to type into a textbox, and Fx tries to search for every damn letter, instead of typing into said textbox. This pisses me of royally.

• Why can’t I bookmark things in the bookmark folder?

• Why can’t I get rid of the damn Search toolbar thingy? Why must it always reappear? Why doesn’t it actually do any searching?

FOSS is all well and good, but I don’t think it will ever be able to match the standards of closed source software. Bring on IE7!

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