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Full user review
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"WHAT A P.O.S!!!"
Pros
None that I can find!
Cons
Buggy, crashes, locks up when launched, incompatible with essential plug-ins and add-ons.
Summary
If I ever delivered a program this bad to a client, I would be fired immediately. It is TOTALLY inexcusable the Firefox 4 and now Firefox 5 are so unstable. I depend on my PC tools to make a living. If it NOT my job to re-learn something that I already know quite well just because a developer at Mozilla decides to change the look and feel of the product. It is the Mozilla developers job to accommodate users, not the other way around. If the user community at large is clamoring for a new look and feel, at least have the decency to provide a compatibility mode for those of us that DO NOT want the new look and feel. Also, why is it that with each new release of Firefox, my essential plug-ins and add-ons no longer work? Is there a VALID reason for changing the plug-in and add-on interfaces? At this point, I have given up and started using Chrome. This is not my first choice, but at least Google seems to be staffed by professionals!!!
5 replies to this review
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Try Opera 11.50 maddogzo6 and you will get a super fast Browser with to many things to mention right out of the box.It has Extensions like AdBlock and WOT and more just like FF.It is super fast and Im sure you will like it.Give it a try.You have nothing to lose.I use to like Firefox versions below 3.6 and used it all the time.Not anymore.
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I love this browser it was created before Chrome was even created its one of the best known trusted browsers avabile. I would choose this over chrome cause chrome is just plain slow on version 13.
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ComputerLuvr .....As a long time Firefox user (actually from its inception) I am simply astounded that on your 20 or so computers that you haven't seen ANY instability with Firefox versions 4 and 5. On freshly reformatted hard drives with Windows 7 as the O.S. I added anywhere from a few to a ton of extensions to Firefox 5 and was seeing instability. In fact, I was seeing a lot of instability, with the browser crashing over and over. This is something I had, up until these last two versions, never seen before. The problems were so bad that I went back to Firefox version 3.6.19. When I did so the instability vanished, and I could use some extensions that hadn't been updated yet. While I lose some speed in the time it takes for the browser to open and in the time it takes to render web pages I would take this in a heartbeat over the instability I was seeing in versions 4 & 5. The problems I had in Windows 7 were not seen in a Firefox 5 installation in a Linux distribution.
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I respectfully disagree. I find Firefox 5 very user friendly and recommend it to my clients and friends. You also have the option of customizing it to how you like the browser to look. And it uses far less memory than Chrome and it's never crashed on me yet. ;)
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Maddogz06 ..... Amen! Your review sums up exactly how I see it, we are the victims of capricious changes by Mozilla developers attempting to give Firefox the same look and feel of Chrome. For a little more speed, a minimalist GUI, and a few new features they have trashed the browsers stability and have adversely affected the addons. Way to go Mozilla! The decision makers there are a bunch of clowns.
