Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Another Firefox Experience/Experiment

As usual, I'm "testing" out Firefox again. The reason being is that the extensions just keep getting better. It seems that many more websites are becoming more compliant as well. I will be attempting to use it as my standard browser over the next month and I'll give an update then.

For now, I can report that I've run into some issues that I had thought were initially belonging to Firefox, but actually could be attributed to some of the extensions that I had installed. This extension made websited load funny or not at all, and basically took away the cursor when I clicked in any textbox on a form. Very weird. It seems as though the crappy memory hogging issues are still there. From what I've read so far, the 1.5 series of releases has caused a lot of dissappointments among Firefox enthusiasts in relation to the memory issues and stability overall. The good news for them is that a newer version is already in Alpha, so perhaps it will redeem these issues a bit.

On a final note about this. I've decided to do my experiment using "Portable Firefox 1.5.0.2" rather than the regular one. This way, its easier to restore it if an extension messes things up.

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