Comments on: Is Firefox turning into the ultimate nagware?

By: Dani

Dani — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:22:17 +0000

Warning troll detected.

2/10 Barry Collins.

By: Brian Eager

Brian Eager — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:19:33 +0000

Well keep on bitching chaps …i’ve learnt more in 45 seconds then elsewhere to date…..
I quite like the new IE8 but haven’t tried any of the alternatives above – so the Sea Monkey thing seems like the first port of call….thanks everyone for your time…tome there is nothing worse than waiting for something to happen. QS big Brian

By: David Riley

David Riley — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 13:07:35 +0000

Barry stop being a little bitch. ~12 addons is too many, what do you expect to happen? Turn off automatic updates or whatever. This isn’t news or podcast worthy and is a non issue when you consider some other browsers don’t even have the addons in the first place. Jesus man.

By: Anteaus

Anteaus — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:06:27 +0000

Take a look at Seamonkey.

http://www.seamonkey-project.org/

Just install the browser component, and you’ve got an up-to-date Firefox minus the gimmicky stuff. Plus, it has a lot more config options than FF.

By: JoninCenTx

JoninCenTx — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:49:34 +0000

What impatient, foolish complaints. I’m referring the bitching re: delays of a 1, 2 or 3 seconds. I can’t believe you notice. You must have a lot of nothing to do to be so aware of a trivial amount of time.
Seriously when your busy 3 seconds is like 3 nanoseconds.
Oh and I do agree with Firefox 3.5 Mozilla has gone off the deep end, and it’s fixes are mucking up the browser, so I regressed to 3.01 and all the problems disappeared. The obsession with obscure security holes is driving this constant security update nonsense as far as I’m concerned. In all the years of using Firefox I have yet to experience one bit of malware from these supposed hidden mines of software evil.

By: Alperian

Alperian — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:03:09 +0000

Any fears of chronic obesity in our cuddly friend Firefox can be sweetly put to bed: If you want the real Vanessa Feltz of browsers, then start up IE8 and watch the line on your work-flow chart plummet. If you want a fast reliable FF then stop feeding it puddings (twitterfox personages). I agree with some above: not enough to moan about these days.

By: Gavin Bollard

Gavin Bollard — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:37:00 +0000

I had a critical look at my add-ons and found that there was only one that I couldn’t live without (Sharaholic).

Then I found a way of doing it in Chrome.

I’ve been switched over on Chrome for about four months now and I’m no longer missing any of the add-ons.

It’s what you get used to.

By: stokegabriel

stokegabriel — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:35:37 +0000

My previous post may have been doing Barry a bit of an injustice, as of course he may be running Vista (forgot about that) and as we all know Vista is a thorn in the backside of humanity.

By: hjlupton

hjlupton — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 19:14:50 +0000

It’s one of the many reasons I switched to Safari and never looked back. Overall I think Safari is a much better user experience, both on the mac and in windows

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 12:55:56 +0000

Definitely a user error! I have been using Firefox for several years, and as a developer I’m using it pretty much all day 5 days a week and I can honestly say I’ve never had none of the problems raised. To the author of this dodgy article I can only suggest you’ve got some badly implemented add-ins spoiling your Firefox experience.