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Firefox 1.5 Stability Problems? Readers And Mozilla Respond | |
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| Time: 00:00 EST/05:00 GMT | News Source: InformationWeek | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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Before we get too far down that path, however, let's put things in perspective. More than 60 percent of the people who responded to our request for personal experiences with Firefox 1.5 reported they had no problems whatsoever with the browser software. And there is absolutely no statistically valid way to draw any hard conclusions about how many people are having stability issues with Firefox 1.5 based on this small sample size. At a rough guess, the number of people experiencing serious problems is probably well under 10 percent of all the people who have downloaded and installed Firefox 1.5. |
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| #1 By 3746 (216.16.225.210) at Thursday, December 22, 2005 07:26:30 AM |
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Personally, I have had the same problems with Firefox 1.5. I have Maxthon wrapper loaded for IE and never get crashes in it. My Firefox 1.5 freezes up and crashes randomly on different sites. It's memory usage is also very high after browsing for sometime. As alternative browsers go I think Opera is the better option. It is fast, stable and I have never seen it crash. Then again I don't use it full time. This post was edited by kaikara on Thursday, December 22, 2005 at 07:27. |
| #2 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at Thursday, December 22, 2005 07:40:23 AM |
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No FF 1.5 issues here. Yet.
TL |
| #3 By 11131 (64.132.138.66) at Thursday, December 22, 2005 07:47:46 AM |
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No issues here with FireFox 1.5..
Alister |
| #4 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Thursday, December 22, 2005 08:17:11 AM |
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Where were all these people when the betas and RCs were out?
The only issue I've had with 1.5 is it hung when I aborted loading an embedded multimedia clip, but I've had IE crash when I've done the same thing in the past. |
| #5 By 61 (71.251.77.233) at Thursday, December 22, 2005 08:56:21 AM |
| I get random crashes, and they are much more frequent than I got durig the betas. |
| #6 By 3746 (216.16.225.210) at Thursday, December 22, 2005 09:01:05 AM |
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The average person doesn't have the time to run or beta test for a product. They want something that works and usually will only run final releases. Myself - I had loaded the RCs but had not used them heavily until the final version. I have enough problems that I don't use 1.5 as my primary browser and use maxthon/IE. I keep Opera and Firefox for testing purposes though and think they have great components - extensions on firefox for one. But until it runs better for me I will keep using IE/Maxthon and my primary browser.
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| #7 By 32132 (64.180.219.241) at Thursday, December 22, 2005 09:36:34 AM |
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Digg posted the same story a couple of days ago.
There sure are a lot of people having problems: http://digg.com/software/Firefox_1.5_Flaws |
| #8 By 29664 (38.116.145.116) at Thursday, December 22, 2005 09:51:28 AM |
| No problems at all. 8 extensions. Still see no reason what-so-ever to go back to IE. Tabbed browsing, gestures, ad-block have me hooked |
| #9 By 3746 (216.16.225.210) at Thursday, December 22, 2005 10:02:45 AM |
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#8
I only had 2 extensions loaded when I was trying to use it. Ad Blocker and TAB preferences. Both very common extensions. But as the article states if they allow extensions and it causes instability then Firefox is the one that is going to look like it has problems. |
| #10 By 13030 (198.22.121.110) at Thursday, December 22, 2005 10:07:46 AM |
| No problems with 1.5. |
| #11 By 32132 (142.32.208.231) at Thursday, December 22, 2005 01:01:00 PM |
| I find it sad that all the Firefox apologists are pretending they don't have any problems. |
| #12 By 3746 (216.16.225.210) at Thursday, December 22, 2005 01:01:53 PM |
| As a test I removed all extensions - removed Firefox - cleaned up an leftover files. Reinstalled fresh with no extensions. I used it for about 1 hour and was getting freezing issues and it was using a lot of memory by the end. So it doesn't look like a extension issue for me. Not a computer issue as I have just about the fastest computer you can get and all other programs run buttery smooth. Like i said it might be spotty issues but if it doesn't work for me then it is off to another browser i go. |
| #13 By 20505 (216.102.144.11) at Thursday, December 22, 2005 03:34:46 PM |
| The Fox works fine for me on both Windows and SuSe (same machine) with four extensions. |
| #14 By 20505 (216.102.144.11) at Thursday, December 22, 2005 03:37:32 PM |
| BTW - I am reading these posts in one on a dozen tab in FF 1.5, furthermore 1.5 works much better specifically with this site than 1.06. |
| #15 By 11888 (24.43.209.210) at Thursday, December 22, 2005 05:47:53 PM |
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I had trouble with 1.5 on OS X. Clicking on the menus did nothing, I couldn't open a new window, and would be forced to Quit and relaunch.
I deleted the preference file and tried again, no problems since. |
| #16 By 2960 (68.101.39.180) at Tuesday, December 27, 2005 08:25:32 AM |
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#13,
Not an apologist. Just not having the issue. Deal with it. TL |
