Firefox Might Take Over The World

May 17, 02:44 PM by Peter Franceschi

So at some point in the last 2-3 weeks, my Firefox auto-updater ran on both my home and work PC’s and, as is amazingly convenient, Firefox silently downloaded the newest version of itself and installed it behind the scenes.

Awesome.

Shortly thereafter however I started noticing things, hiccups if you will. Only small things nothing to make me really stop what I’m doing and troubleshoot a solution. Eventually though it got worse. Now lately Firefox absolutely can not last on CNN.com for more than 30 seconds. Any article I click immediately opens as normal, then Firefox locks and has to be forcefully restarted through the task manager. This happens on other pages as well, ranging from wired.com all the way to the NYTimes. Beyond the physical pain of ripping my hair out, I just dont understand the problem. Firefox is, and has been, one of the best and most stable browsing platforms available. I swear by it. Yet suddenly a new release comes out loaded to the gills with bugs?

I almost feel like I’ve taken it for granted all this time. Not once has Firefox crashed before this. Not once has anything failed to open without, at a very minimum, providing some alternative relief. It is (save Opera) just about the most standards-compliant browser on the market and, let’s face it, that logo is just hot. Now it’s crashing left and right and it’s loyal fan base (or heck, maybe it’s just me) are left wondering.

I beseech you, oh great makers of ‘the fox’ – recind the last version and return the fiery one to his former glory! In the meantime I’ll have to find something else to read in my boredom because I’ll be damned if I’m switching to IE. /spits

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1. Whoa, I can comment now! I didn’t have the option before. Huzzah!
   
   Anyway. Are you sure it’s the latest version of FireFox doing this? I have the latest version as well and it is still as stable as ever – even on cnn.com.
   
   I hope your tribulations end for the better soon!

   Logan posted Jun 6, 07:39 PM

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