Mad enough to fire Firefox?

By Barb Dybwad

Jason O'Grady over at Powerpage is
hopping mad (mind you I
often use the phrase 'hopping mad' as an exaggeration, but he rarely says it so we know it's got to be bad) at the Firefox browser. All of us computer users can commiserate with the feeling of ire at an inanimate object mixed with a bit of sheepish realization that inanimate objects can so intensely draw our ire.

But I digress (who, me?). O'Grady has the following laundry list of complaints:

  • Destructive windows on URL clicks in emails
  • Inexplicable failure to load a link clicked in an email
  • Application locking, requiring a force quit
  • Daily builds seem to make things worse

He's running back into the arms of Safari and hoping she'll still give him the time of day. Anyone else have big or small annoyances with Firefox?

I note that Jason lists Opera and iCab as the second-string alternatives to Safari and Firefox. I haven't tried iCab in a couple of years – is anybody using it and want to testify? As for Opera, I discovered recently that the Opera browser *truly kicks royal arse* on the Windows platform. It is more like a control panel or dashboard command center than a browser and I am head over heels in love, but I don't have the same affection for it on the Mac platform. Does it have all the same features and I just haven't played with it enough? If anyone can speak to this, please do.

Here ends today's inquiry into one of my favorite topics, as introduced on the big screen by Top Gun: "Who's the best browser?"

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