I find it a bit, dunno, ironic [1], that the most unstable and unresponsive program that I use on Windows is, tadaa, Firefox. After waking up the machine, it takes ages for Firefox to become responsive. I can fire up several new instances of IE before Firefox becomes usable. Firefox is also the only application that occassionally eats up all the CPU time and is just generally pretty unstable. And this has been the case ever since I've been using it, so don't come telling me that "sure, you're using version X.X, but you should try X.X+1" because that's what I've been hearing for the last five years or so.
It's a one great achievement as a software project, Firefox, sure, but I wouldn't go around praising how great a browser or a program it is. I am sure I couldn't do a better job, but that's not a measure of anything.
[1] Ironic in the sense that Firefox is being hailed as the landmark of the greatness of open source software, while Windows, and particularly Internet Explorer, is claimed to be the most buggy and unstable piece of software family ever.
[permalink] [2 comments] 29.01.2006, 09:11
- Comments:
Posted by Timo Virkkala at 29.01.2006, 10:46
Sounds strange to me. I've never had such problems with Firefox. Quite the opposite, in fact - I often have my (manually started) Firefox up and running before all my start-up programs finish loading (and I don't have that many of them).The only unstability problems I've had with Firefox are when I open a LOT of tabs - about a hundred... And then with extensions. Are you sure that it's not in fact one of the extensions you're using that's causing trouble? I used to have a lot of slowdowns with the Tabbrowser Extensions extension.
Posted by Jarno Virtanen at 31.01.2006, 13:08
I don't have any significat extensions installed. There's just that Show Failed URL extension which might even be obsolete by now and a DOM inspector. The problem might just be that I keep them Firefoxes open for a very long time. They might be leaking memory or something like that, I dunno.