Firefox did it to you? How about stop installing every half-baked extension that God-knows-who has written (yes, I am looking at you, Google) and then moan about how Firefox has screwed you. I have several extensions that I have had to disable because they wouldn't play well with others and several that Firefox itself disabled for similar reasons.
Firefox is not perfect by any means. It wants to open some network connections when it starts, before it has a visible pane, and if the network is down it gets all freaky amd either won't come up, or comes up with a grossly enlarged status bar with nothing in it. I suspect this was supposed to have diagnostic text for debugging, but it got turned off and now the area for the debugging text is there but not the messages.
But I will keep Firefox with all its idiosyncracies over the malicious product of a vicious monopolist who has proven manifold times to be morally bankrupt and ethically deficient.
Posted on December 11, 2006 08:25 AM