Here I go with my multi-post attack mode!

So I was entirely fed up with Firefox today. It crashed (repeatedly) when I was attempting to make a post on a discussion board for one of my online college courses. It wasn't mandatory, but posting during the semester IS mandatory, so a freezing Firefox is a very bad thing.

I decided to completely reinstall Firefox from the ground up! So I backed up my bookmarks and uninstalled Firefox, deleting every folder it has. And then I forgot about all my saved passwords, but what was done was done and any password I forget, I'll just have to recover them on the various sites I visit... Anyway, I installed it rather uneventfully, and it boots up exceptionally quick! I was impressed and relieved. This was the Firefox I knew!

But then I started installing my add-ons... And... It returned to its slothful nature, taking almost a minute to load up. I installed Adblock first, and it slowed down considerably, so it's either add-ons as a whole, or just Adblock. Either way, I can't live without Adblock, so I have no choice.

So I've once again returned to being very unhappy with Firefox. I'm quite certain that it won't load the discussion board, because that's a Java-related problem, and Firefox hates Java. (At least on my end. Always has, always will, on multiple platforms, I'm sorry, but it's true.) It has ever become more fat, slow and featureless. Or at least features I'll never use, but more or less featureless. That's the entire idea with having add-ons! Firefox was the smallest, fastest browser there was, and if you wanted added functionality, you downloaded an add-on! Well... Now Firefox is a giant mammoth of an application, chugging down the RAM like it's Mountain Dew and giving me what? A slower version of itself?

I need to figure out Opera's password saving feature... I need to just NOT EVER use Firefox for an entire week and see what happens. Any site not supporting Opera (by fault of those silly, uneducated web coders) will be browsed through with Internet Explorer 7, and I can hear the multitudes gasping their collective gasp of shock and horror, but Mozilla's applications have become what they've always become... fat, bloated, slow, with no features.

My next post will be using Opera, and perhaps I can figure out a way around that weird problem with posting...

This entry was posted on Friday, August 17th, 2007 at 6:02 pm and is filed under General.