Comments on: Firefox 4 feeling buggy? Could be those plugins

By: An0n

An0n — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:06:21 +0000

While it IS a good idea to troubleshoot software behavior by removing potential contributors, the main reason these days that software is buggy is because of the big push to "invent" fancy "new" things constantly instead of making reliability and usability-testing the number one priorities. Just look at google and the largest software companies, they change things for no reason and break familiarity instead of fixing the basics. Software is complex and you can't play games and be on a "gotta change it" – “gotta make the UI even fancier” craze.

By: perivision

perivision — Sat, 14 May 2011 17:40:03 +0000

In reply to Karl. well I would give it a few updates. My FF has been running pretty well once I updates flash and of course removed some plugins. Still not updating the desktop though.Sent from my iPhone, please excuse my typos

By: Karl

Karl — Sat, 14 May 2011 11:15:26 +0000

First time I had to 'downgrade' firefox to the previous version (3.6). They should not have rolled this out until they knew it was Ok, as I've no interest in going back to 4. Might be a good time to get into chrome.

By: perivision

perivision — Mon, 02 May 2011 18:36:04 +0000

In reply to Paul. buggy even after killing all the plugins? Sad. I still have lockups here and there. Normally it frees up after 30 sec or so, but still. I wonder if I need to kill the Flash plugin as well?---

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 02 May 2011 12:45:38 +0000

I have been having the same problem – disabled plugins but get routine lockups even after latest update, especially when following links in email messages that IE 9 handles with no issues. Have been a long tome FF user, but giving up for a while – just too annoying too often. Hopefully FF 5 will be an improvement

By: perivision

perivision — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 17:43:03 +0000

In reply to crow. Did you try updating the flash player? That is the only other thing i can think to try.

By: crow

crow — Sun, 24 Apr 2011 13:42:35 +0000

Firefox 4 is very disappointing. I don't have any addons installed and it's still very buggy. Flash player problem is very annoying as well. Time to switch to Chrome…

By: Badman

Badman — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 12:01:13 +0000

Crashes flash player all the time, freezes completely most of the time… very disappointing release, might ass well go back to IE9 🙂

By: Gene

Gene — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 17:46:09 +0000

Not a great upgrade. I undid it, went back to FF 3.16 and it works fine. I'll wait. I think when they get it fixed it will be OK, but it's pretty ratty right now

By: perivision

perivision — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:31:02 +0000

In reply to ChooRocca. Yea, even with my extensions turned off, its not as smooth as I would have expected. Perhaps a the next patch will take care of it.Sent from my iPhone, please excuse my typos