Firefox 3 - Initial Thoughts
So I installed Firefox 3 on two computers today. The first is my main Vista desktop. It had one crash after the first launch, but then ran fine the rest of the day. The second is my XP laptop, which I am writing on now. I have had 5 crashes in the last hour and so far am not a happy camper.
Not to focus on the negative, but here are a list of things I don’t like at first glance:
1. All the crashing. Can I have some stability please?
2. The address bar, or whatever they are calling now the magic bar or something. Why can’t it just bring up a list of previously entered websites like before. Don’t try to outsmart me and guess what I might want. So far it has always been wrong.
3. I miss the yellow address bar when on an https secure site. It was a nice visual clue. I know I can hack it to get it back, but that shouldn’t be necesarry.
I’m sure there will be good things I like about Firefox 3 and I will run it awhile longer to give it a chance. But at first glance it is enough to make me go back to Internet Explorer 7 or try another browser. I haven’t used Opera in forever, maybe it’s time to check it out again. Or Flock, which although it’s based on Firefox, is significantly different. I’ll report back my decision. Maybe I will be converted and love version 3, who knows?
