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October 25, 2006
FireFox 2.0 (Mac) is Crappy, Broken
It hangs (with spinning rainbow of death) all the time. Sometime it just crashes.
I'm switching back to 1.5 for a while. Luckily, it appears you can (at least FF 2.0 doesn't mess up your settings/prefs in an incompatible way...)
I wonder if the Windows or Linux versions are just as bad.
Update: Derek points out that google toolbar is the culprit. I've disabled it, and I'm back to FF2. I'll post later if it helps or not.
Posted by billo at October 25, 2006 11:40 AM
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Using it both on Linux (FC4) and WinXP, haven't run into any problems so far. All the google extensions worked without a problem, as did WebDev. The only one that I'm missing is TabMix+.
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at October 25, 2006 05:03 PM
Try uninstalling the google toolbar extension (not just hiding it). I had lots of hangs and crashes (on Ubuntu), and although I didn't believe it when I read it, removing the toolbar has fixed the problems. I haven't had a crash since.
Posted by: Derek Young at October 25, 2006 02:33 PM
Interesting. I've been using it all day and haven't had a single spinning beachball or crash, though I do like the integration of Bloglines, autosuggest in the search bar, and spell checking in forms boxes (such as this one, which tells me "beachball," "Bloglines," and "autosuggest" are all incorrect).
Posted by: Brian at October 25, 2006 02:05 PM