Thursday, November 10, 2011

Firefox Hijacked - Firefox 8 Disaster

The folks at Mozilla don't have time to actually use their browser (test) before they release it to the wild with this new 6 week update cycle paradigm.  Enough already stop this madness!

I just updated to FF 8 and regret it already.  Continuous updates that cause add-ons to become incompatible is insane.  I'm not sure who is driving this train wreck, but creating this post may be the last time I use any Mozilla product. Why would I be presented with 9 tabs each asking me whether I wanted to update each individual add-on and have to check a box and hit a continue button only have to restart FF again.  FF is already so slow to start that by the time it starts I have often forgot why I was starting it.

Even worse, based on the lists below there should have been 19 more tabs to annoy me.

I can trace my use of FF all the way back to Netscape 6.2.  I remember the conversations at wired/web-monkey discussing starting the Mozilla project.  I even took part in them.  I used Thunderbird for a long time, always hoping they would come up with a decent integrated calendar.  Finally, I just had to give up and unhappily I've moved on to MS Outlook.  Now I'm about to do the same thing with FF.

Maybe somebody at Mozilla can drop me a line and let me know when they decide to start listening to their users, rather than their wiz-bang developers.  I may give it a try again for old times sake.

Another sad failure.

Here's the list of Add-ons:

COMPATIBLE
Adblock Plus 1.3.10
Console 0.8
DownloadHelper 4.9.6
Firebug 1.8.4
Fireshot 0.94
IE Tab 2 (FF 3.6+) 3.10.7.2
Norton Toolbar 2012.2.1.6
Norton Vulnerability Protection 3.2
Shareaholic 3.0.1

 INCOMPATIBLE AND DISABLED
Ad blocker 0,6,7
Broadband Speed Test and Diagnoses 1.2.5
CS Helper 1.0
Chostery 2.6.2
Go Parent Foler 2.5
IE View 1.4.5.1
Link Evaluator 0.9.9.7
Live HTTP headers 0.17
Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant 1.2.1
Minimap Addon 0.3.13
Personas 1.6.2
RealPlayer Browser Record Plugin 1.0
Screen Capture Elite 2.0.0.20
Show Parent Folder 1.8
Skype extension 5.3.0.7550
Sothink SWF Catcher 1.3.2
Tab Mix Plus 0.3.8.6
Web Developer 1.1.9
YSlow 3.0.4

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