Farewell, Firefox!

[Note: Friends of Justice is a personal blog. I speak only for myself.]

Dear Friend of Justice,

I am creating this post using Internet Explorer, a browser I had hoped I’d never have to fall back on. But I just can’t live with Firefox anymore. Maybe I will give it another try on its next release.

My problem started when I tried to install a Firefox add-on called Firebug. I could not get it to install. I googled around for advice. I was told to create a “clean” profile. I did. Finally, I uninstalled completely and reinstalled.

I then discovered that all of my add-ons were gone and that nothing I did would bring them back.

So I tried Firefox support and discovered that it basically doesn’t exist. You are allowed to ask a question in their forum. But your question quickly gets lost, because it turns out hundreds of other people are also having terrible problems with Firefox.

I have no more time to waste on it. I don’t like Internet Explorer, but at least add-ons work with it.

I will leave Firefox on my computer because I still need it to test changes in web pages. I also have Opera, Chrome, and Safari installed for this purpose.

I’ve been using Firefox for many years. I feel I’ve been let down by an old friend.

-Bob

One Response to “Farewell, Firefox!”

  1. Firefox is a very sad case.

    It has so many really excellent features, that I hesitate to leave it.

    But lately, it is unable to surf the Internet every morning. I have to actually kill the program with the Program Manager, restart it, and manually tell it to reload active websites.

    I also may eventually be forced to return to IE.

    Regards
    Bruce Robinson
    ReligiousTolerance.org

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