I was using Firefox 3 from Beta 2 on. On the big Firefox World Record Download day, I dutifully downloaded and installed on both of my computers. Then the one on my desktop computer started crashing…all the time. It goes along fine from anywhere from 5 minutes to a couple hours and then BOOM!
I tried disabling all of the addons. No luck.
I want to try uninstalling and reinstalling but a curious thing has prevented me. Normally when I am on the desktop computer I am doing something on the internet and don’t really want to spend time updating the browser so I can use the browser. Plus, I have just been too lazy to back up my bookmarks (and more importantly my wife’s) so that I can import them into the new install.
A while back, I download Safari and Opera so I could do a little experimenting with them. While getting sick of the crashes, I noticed myself launching Opera instead and found that I like it quite a bit. Mainly because it just hasn’t crashed on me. I also like the Speed Dial and its password manager.
I still plan on trying to fix Firefox and switch back simply because some of the plugins I have are important to me but it is nice to know that there are very real, very solid alternatives out in the wild besides just Firefox and IE.
Update: When I went to view the post after publishing, I saw some add for Firefox 3.1 and thought that was odd. I hadn’t heard anything about 3.1 yet. So I opened Firefox and asked it to check for updates and it found Firefox 3.0.1 which apparently was released on 7/16/08 (our family most of last week and I just caught it a couple days ago so I’m not surprised I messed the news). According to the release notes the new release “Fixed several stability issues.” Maybe that will fix my constant crashing. My only question now is why didn’t Firefox tell me that there was an update available. Does it take more than a week for the autonotifications to spread out to the internet?
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