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Is Firefox 3 a buggy browser?

24 July 2008 45 views 12 Comments

I am using the Firefox version 3, which I downloaded during the Download day. I was impressed with the features that were promised by the Firefox team and decided to upgrade from version 2 to 3. Initially everything going fine, but now I am facing some issues with Firefox 3.

  • Firefox teaches me how to be patient!
    Yes, it does! to open Firefox, I should wait at least for 1-2 minutes after clicking the Firefox icon. It takes such a long time to load Firefox. I am sure that my machine is not slow, because after clicking the Firefox icon, I usually open my media player and then open my modem application to connect to internet. All these applications will open in seconds, except Firefox which takes it’s own time!
  • Firefox forgets to load a page!
    Sometimes, typing the URL in address bar and pressing enter will not make any changes in my Firefox window. Obviously an ideal browser should try to load the URL in this situation, but Firefox is not doing that. I am seeing this case only few times and I am not sure that this is because of a bug in the browser.
  • Not closing properly!
    When I close the Firefox window and re-opens it, I am getting a error message saying that “There is already another instance of Firefox running, which is not responding. Try closing that Firefox“. If click OK in this dialogue and reopen Firefox , it is opening. But, I don’t know why it was showing such an error message in my first try.

These are the issues, I am currently facing with Firefox. I’m not sure that other people also facing similar issues. If so, I hope these issues will be fixed in the upcoming release of the great browser.

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12 Comments »

  • anjan bacchu said:

    hi veerasundar,

    load time : not sure if you have multiple tabs to load(that were saved last time).

    closing properly message : this happens when you quickly tried to restart firefox after closing the previous instance. firefox closes the windows BUT firefox the application is still running(you can confirm by looking at task manager).

    BR,
    ~A

    # 24 July 2008 at 4:35 pm
  • Veerasundar (author) said:

    Hi Anjan,

    @load time : I never used to save any tabs before closing the Firefox. Every time, I usually open a blank page. But still, it is taking such a long time to load.

    I thought that it may be because of plug-ins I am using with Firefox, so I disabled all the plug-ins. But, even after the load time is not decreasing!

    @closing properly message: yes, you must be right. If it tried opening the Firefox, quickly after closing the previous instance, I am getting the error message. Otherwise, its working fine.

    # 25 July 2008 at 3:30 am
  • Dhananjay Nene said:

    http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Upgrading+Firefox

    # 25 July 2008 at 4:14 am
  • chaitanya said:

    I too faced all the above issues and one more- many of the add ons are not supported on 3.

    So I conveniently switched back to 2.

    2 is awesome. 3 is not so promising.

    # 25 July 2008 at 4:28 am
  • Veerasundar (author) said:

    Chaitanya,

    May be we have to wait for some more time, to get all older plug-ins ported to latest version of Firefox 3!

    # 25 July 2008 at 9:50 am
  • Veerasundar (author) said:

    Thanks for the link, Dhananjay!

    # 25 July 2008 at 9:51 am
  • Shubhashish said:

    Hi ,
    I have found some other problems too.
    We use a proxy server in our office. so to access the intranet sites we use to bypass the proxy server.
    Firefox 2 do this job preetty good but 3 in vain and in stain.
    Well i am sorry to say that but they have to check this severe issue.

    # 26 July 2008 at 5:57 am
  • Veerasundar (author) said:

    Hi Shubhashish,

    I have also faced the proxy problem at my office system. Hope it will be rectified soon.

    # 27 July 2008 at 3:21 am
  • Infonote said:

    I have not encountered any major problems with Firefox 3.

    Try downloading the latest update 3.0.1 by doing the following:

    help | check for updates

    # 31 July 2008 at 5:43 am
  • Rafael said:

    I also have not faced any problem with Firefox 3. In my case the startup times are better than Firefox 2, even with last session tabs saved. I didn’t have any crash since I installed.

    # 31 July 2008 at 6:35 am
  • Veerasundar (author) said:

    Rafael,

    I also did not have any crash, since I started using FF3. But the main problem for me is the load time.

    # 31 July 2008 at 6:38 am
  • Aaron said:

    We’ve had problems with FireFox 3 crashing on Windows XP when loading PDFs in the Adobe Acrobat Reader plugin inside the browser. Adobe Reader 8 or 9 both cause the same issue. The browser did not crash in FireFox 2 loading the same PDFs.

    We haven’t had any proxy issues with using the Microsoft Firewall Client for ISA Server.

    FireFox 3 loads/renders pages much faster than FireFox 2. I don’t use the save tabs - so startup time is fast.

    I too have noticed the firefox process remains running sometimes after I close firefox and I have to kill the process in task manager to startup a usable firefox instance.

    using: FireFox 3.0.1 on Windows XP

    # 31 July 2008 at 5:00 pm

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