Journal Chacham's Journal: Rant: I hate Firefox 9
I hate firefox. I hate firefox. I HATE firefox. I hate it, i hate it, i hate it.
I have hated firefox since the beginning. I installed it, and immediately went back to mozilla because it was so bad. I eventually got used to it, loved the addons, and was happy that firefox had a path in life.
Then chromefox ruined it all. No normal versioning. Automatic updates which could not be turned off, then it could be, unless you checked help/about where it happened anyway, silently, horrifying you on the next boot. Then came breaking add-ons. Automatically upgrading add-ons to version that don't work for your browser, and visual changes galore. Chromefox is just plain terrible at being chrome. If not for the addons, i probably would have switched already. I should look again, because chrome's addons are pretty good.
Firefox used to have a vision. They used to be tops. Then some moron got elected and changed everything that made firefox into firefox. And then the constant change. Stop it already you idiots. Just stop it. I hate to say it or even think it, but if they all died slow and painful deaths, i would probably rejoice in them getting what they deserved. They took something wonderful and redesigned it for no good reason, making everyone's experience, who actually cared, terrible. The FF design team is just plain evil. It's bad enough that they changed what worked without making it an option. But they forced it. Yeah, yeah, addons can change it back. But i am scarred for life.
Recently i rebooted my mac and turned on sync to work with my laptop. Mac gained nothing, but my laptop had it's addons upgraded to non-working versions or otherwise messed up, and noscript's whitelist (well, the new stuff) wiped out. That represents hours of research (a few minutes at a time, but nonetheless) defenestrated. Now a lot of websites aren't working again. And my passwords too, all got reset to old passwords. Sync messed it all up. What morons designed that? I have turned off Sync. I gained nothing and nearly lost everything.
I've about had it with firefox. I think i will finally bite the bullet and seriously check out chrome. Everything i hold dear about firefox is pretty much untrue. And where i can hold it in place (i'm using version 45) one little mistake can mess it all up royally.
I hate you firefox team. I really hate you. I say hate, because as i finally learnt to love you, you stabbed me in the back by turning against everything FF stood for. You guys did what even Microsoft, with millions of dollars, couldn't do. Turncoats, backstabbers, double-agents, whatever. When you guys 404, i want to laugh at you heartily.
It's bad. (Score:2)
But whenever I get annoyed I open Internet Explorer and realize that Firefox is pretty decent even though firefox throw around things that causes plugins to fail for a few generations.
But the competition sucks, too (Score:2)
Yeah, I hear your rant.. losing all those hours of customization (I definitely feel for you re: NoScript's whitelist loss) is enough to chap my hide, too.
But I won't install Chrome only to record EVERYTHING I browse... or search through my local files... Never, never, never! Safari does the same f'in thing Chrome does when a domain doesn't have a security certificate... it basically won't let the user go to that site. If the user is really a subuser, then they simply won't try to figure out what else they
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The worst art is, i know you're right.
Is chromium evil too?
Yes (Score:2)
All of this.
The other thing is that old extensions that once ran fine, now cause ESR releases of Firefox to leak memory like a sieve.
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Ain't that the truth. :(
Netscape is alive and well (Score:1)
I don't understand why anyone would even look at anything else.
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I said Netscape, not Mosaic...