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Firefox Woes
I've been a Firefox user for quite some time now, using it through several updated versions. Most people I know who use it rave about it, while simultaneously trashing Internet Explorer.
At first, I agreed with such people, but I've been having several quirky problems with Firefox that have lasted through several of the most recent updates. I also bought a new computer last year with the latest version of IE included, and I've not had any problems with that.
The problems I'm having with Firefox appear and disappear unexpectedly for no apparent rhyme nor reason. The most common problems are:
- I'm on dialup, and if I happen to get tossed offline while viewing pages in Firefox, I must close the browser and re-open it again in order to be able to continue using the pages I was viewing. If I try to make comments, refresh, or click on another page, it won't respond, and I'll see "Stopped" at the left bottom corner of the page. This doesn't happen in IE -- I can just pick up where I left off without closing and re-opening the browser.
- A recurring problem happens on message boards, where Firefox will not recognize text editing buttons in message board response boxes. That is, the bold, underline, italic, quote, and other buttons will not work when I click on them, but I have to add the code manually. This doesn't happen all the time, but it happens enough, and without warning, to be annoying.
- When I get the above problem on message boards, Firefox will also not recognize paragraph breaks and it will render several paragraphs as one unbroken block of text. These two problems are so annoying, that I just use IE when I want to make comments on message boards.
- Another on-again, off-again problem is that on every single one of the blog systems I use (Blog City, Blogger, Vox, and EFX2) Firefox will either not display the text editing features in the text boxes or they will be unclickable, thus unusable. Again, I'm composing in IE more and more.
- Yet another on-again, off-again problem is with Gmail. Though I can sometimes view Gmail normally with Firefox, more often than not, I have to view it in "Basic HTML", which does not allow the user to use all of Gmail's features. More recently, I'm getting errors more often when using Gmail in Firefox.
These are the most common, ongoing annoyances I've had in the last year or so using Firefox. Note that none of these problems occur when using Internet Explorer.
I'd be curious to hear if other Firefox users are having the same problems that I'm having and if they're turning back to IE more and more.
FireFox can be fickle sometimes. But one thing you can do that you can't do
with other browsers is very, very easily get under the hood and tweak its
settings to work better for you. Type about:config into your address bar
and take a look. Probably a good idea to Google up some advice on how to
best tweak it though.
Your problem with gmail could be not enough bandwidth. Sometimes the
bandwidth on dial up changes too. Perhaps there is a setting in Firefox
where you can change the time out feature.
Hiya. I'm having intermittent problems with Firefox too, not least being
thrown off the 'net and being told the session ended and would I like to be
reconnected or words to that effect. I hate the fact you can't copy and
paste anything with Firefox. None of these things are as bothersome as
using IE though which is a right royal pain in the arse!
