Is Firefox better than Internet Explorer? I don't think so
Yes, you heard it right. I don't think Firefox is a better browser than Internet Explorer. It's probably the worst browser programming wise. Why? Because I have never come across a browser so full of bugs and incompatibilities. Worse, it's a memory hog. There, I said it.
Adding functionality to Firefox is like a joke. One day you add something, the next day it becomes incompatible.
Just today my wife upgraded her Firefox installation from 1.5 to 1.5.0.1 and her installed toolbar stopped working.
In case you missed it, that was an upgrade from 1.5 to 1.5.0.1. Supposedly a minor upgrade.
The incompatibilities don't end here. Seems like the mission of Firefox developers is to waste the time and productivity of people using it and programmers developing products for it.
Don't take me wrong, If you are a single home user who visits less than 10 unique web sites a day, Firefox is the excellent choice. But if you are a serious surfer like me, you'll have to wait for a better browser (if that will ever come).
The other day I checked how much memory Firefox was using and to my horror it was using 396MB of RAM.
In addition, I strongly believe that Firefox has the worst exception handling ever. It just dies. No warning, no error, just death.
Programmers and developers spend their valuable time making extensions for this browser only to find that every single upgrade (no matter how big or small) will make their work incompatible.
It looks like Google has hired the main software engineer and put him on other tasks. Google, please return the Firefox guy so he can complete his work in progress, or at least guide the other people who are still working in the dark.
I have just had it with this browser. Seems like the worst case scenario of an Open Source Project where people are just adding code without having any authority checking it.
So here's the verdict: Firefox sucks equally as Internet Explorer. In this case Open Source is no better than proprietary software. They both suck.
And what's up with the IE folks? Seems like Microsoft is just cutting them checks without getting any productivity back. I mean Microsoft really needs to hire a few "really brilliant brains" to help them get back in the market. Or may be they have accepted their loss and are just going to let it go. Redmond, you can do better than this.
Farhan
Tags: Microsoft Redmond FirefoxInternet Explorer Ballmer
Adding functionality to Firefox is like a joke. One day you add something, the next day it becomes incompatible.
Just today my wife upgraded her Firefox installation from 1.5 to 1.5.0.1 and her installed toolbar stopped working.
In case you missed it, that was an upgrade from 1.5 to 1.5.0.1. Supposedly a minor upgrade.
The incompatibilities don't end here. Seems like the mission of Firefox developers is to waste the time and productivity of people using it and programmers developing products for it.
Don't take me wrong, If you are a single home user who visits less than 10 unique web sites a day, Firefox is the excellent choice. But if you are a serious surfer like me, you'll have to wait for a better browser (if that will ever come).
The other day I checked how much memory Firefox was using and to my horror it was using 396MB of RAM.
In addition, I strongly believe that Firefox has the worst exception handling ever. It just dies. No warning, no error, just death.
Programmers and developers spend their valuable time making extensions for this browser only to find that every single upgrade (no matter how big or small) will make their work incompatible.
It looks like Google has hired the main software engineer and put him on other tasks. Google, please return the Firefox guy so he can complete his work in progress, or at least guide the other people who are still working in the dark.
I have just had it with this browser. Seems like the worst case scenario of an Open Source Project where people are just adding code without having any authority checking it.
So here's the verdict: Firefox sucks equally as Internet Explorer. In this case Open Source is no better than proprietary software. They both suck.
And what's up with the IE folks? Seems like Microsoft is just cutting them checks without getting any productivity back. I mean Microsoft really needs to hire a few "really brilliant brains" to help them get back in the market. Or may be they have accepted their loss and are just going to let it go. Redmond, you can do better than this.
Farhan
Tags: Microsoft Redmond FirefoxInternet Explorer Ballmer
posted by Frank at 7:59 PM
3 Comments:
It is enteresting that you are saying that you are having problems with using Firefox. My Operating System is Windows XP Home with SP2. I have been using the latest version of Firefox (1.5.0.1) and I have not had not one of the problems that you are talking about. With all the spyware, viruses, and soforth, you could be having these problems or other ones.
With my experience with computers, I have thought it was one software that was causing me problems, but it was not that at all. Since I use the Internet a great deal. I always clear my cache, temp files, etc. I use evidence eliminator to help me with this. I also use fresh device software that also helps clear up junk files.
There are free firewalls and antivirus out there as well as free spyware scanner/removal software. Some of these are good and not so good. You will have to decide what works best for you and your computer system.
After you clean up your computer frum whatever is the reason for you have problems, you might want to try out some of the extenstions that Firefox have to offer. I am 52 sofar on my system.
If you have cleaned your system of spyware, viruses, cache, temp files, etc., and you are still having problems, I do not know what could be the problem. If you had spyware on your computer and you removed it, then the damage has been done. Trust me. Unless you know how to reset the damage that the spyware has done, then you will have to restore your computer by formatting your computer and reinstalling the Operating system and reinstall all the software you have.
At times spyware is worse the having a virus. Whatever is your problem, I am using Firefox as my default browser and I have never had any problems with it on any of the versions to this date. Good luck. :-)
Breathe deep, seek peace,
Brandon Bowers
Brandon,
Thanks for your comment.
I have these issues happening on a brand new installation of Firefox 1.5 on a brand new laptop (I just got it).
Being a security consultant you can be sure that I am very aggressive in security on my computer.
I am not saying IE is better, all I am saying is that FF needs lots of improvements in how it manages memory.
Visiting a lot of sites in a day is one thing, visiting them in parallel is another.
Out of the available choice FF is definitely the superior choice but has a lot of room to improve.
I tried using Safari but can't get used to it. And IE is full of spying.
Frank
On the whole, I've had more positive experiences than negatives with Firefox. I don't use too many extensions, though, and most of them are updated within a day or two to be compatible with the newest release.
But yes, Firefox is massive memory hog, and the latest update really hasn't done much of anything to address that. I was under the impression it would, but I guess I was just misinformed.
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