Firefox Hasn't Crashed On Me For Over 10 Minutes!!

[Buz2b]

Originally posted by: n7
Hmm....i can't remember FF 1.0 evar crashing on me...

/hugs his FF

:thumbsup:

 

[fallenangel99]

hum.. if you've used IE and it has crashed every 10 minutes, then something ELSE is wrong with your computer.. IE should not crash every 10 mins.. unless you go to porn sites and download all those activex/java/etc viewers

 

[Mitzi]

Originally posted by: BlueWeasel
Firefox 1.0 has started crashing for me, mainly when I'm checking my Gmail account. I've got several extensions installed, so I'm wondering which one of those is the problem.

It doesn't crash for me but Gmail sort of 'freezes' with Loading in the top right of the screen when trying to open messages sometimes. Closing Firefox and restarting does the trick, weird though.

 

[pray4mojo]

and i thought i was the only one having problems with FF crashing. phew.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: Gurck

Originally posted by: Nothinman
FireFox hasn't crashed for me since, well not since I can remember.

It crashes occasionally when using java for me, but still far less often than IE did. At least when FF crashes explorer.exe doesn't get restarted.

Same here. Java's the only thing that crashes Firefox thus far - and the pages that do it also slow IE down considerably.

 

[Malak]

Originally posted by: Buz2b

FF is a cool toy, but it's not a mainstream browser, and IMO never will be.... and that's a shame.

(('m starting to sound like a traveling Mozilla salesman but I'm not) I would respectfully dissagree with your assumption that Firefox is not a mainstream browser. Recent story on the news that Firefox has gained steadily on IE's market share in recent times. I believe it was up around 5% or so; nothing to write home about but coming on stronger each day. I think we are easily numbed into forgetting all the bugs, restrictions and security holes in IE, as long as it doesn't "burp" on us. The things like swiss cheese with security though; no matter how many updates and patches they release.
Even though I've not had one problem with Firefox, security and speed alone would still make me much more tolerant of any that showed.

5% of the market isn't coming close to being considered mainstream. He is right. And every browser has security patches, even firefox.

 

[LuDaCriS66]

a big part of Firefox crashing are the extensions... Tabbrowser Extension being one of the biggest culprits.

 

[Nothinman]

5% of the market isn't coming close to being considered mainstream

And where is new software supposed to start when they don't have a way to cheat like IE did?

 

[Buz2b]

Originally posted by: malak

Originally posted by: Buz2b

FF is a cool toy, but it's not a mainstream browser, and IMO never will be.... and that's a shame.

(('m starting to sound like a traveling Mozilla salesman but I'm not) I would respectfully dissagree with your assumption that Firefox is not a mainstream browser. Recent story on the news that Firefox has gained steadily on IE's market share in recent times. I believe it was up around 5% or so; nothing to write home about but coming on stronger each day. I think we are easily numbed into forgetting all the bugs, restrictions and security holes in IE, as long as it doesn't "burp" on us. The things like swiss cheese with security though; no matter how many updates and patches they release.
Even though I've not had one problem with Firefox, security and speed alone would still make me much more tolerant of any that showed.

5% of the market isn't coming close to being considered mainstream. He is right. And every browser has security patches, even firefox.

You need to take a look at where it was just a year ago and the total dominance that IE has enjoyed because it had been able to quash any aspiring competition. Now that MS has to watch their arse, folks like Mozilla are getting a little better chance to compete. Still not an even playing field but better. As was mentioned earlier, look at where Linux is now. Yet, that OS only has a 1.3% worldwide share, yet developers and investors are getting giddy over that number. Hell, for that matter, would you call Apple not a "mainstream" item. Well, they only have 2.5% of the OS market share. Gee, 5% is looking a lot better now isn't it? BTW, the info listed (and more) can be found here.
Sure, Firefox might have some fixes here and there but nothing like the swiss cheese security that IE "offers. It's not even close.

 

[Rottie]

FF 1.0 always crash with Java. and sometime when I blocked java it crashed as well.

 

[Nothinman]

Yet, that OS only has a 1.3% worldwide share,

I think that number is low, Linux has stolen a huge portion of the server marketplace around the world. That article you linked to says that Linux takes up 28% of the worldwide server shipments.

And desktop penetration in the US is pretty low because MS is a US company and our government essentially promotes them pretty well. But the rest of the world is looking for alternatives and they usually come to Linux, some because they can't afford the prices MS charges, even with the special deals they give to avoid Linux usage, and some because they don't want to be dependent on a US company and even some because they feel government software should be OSS. It's impossible to accurately gauge Linux penetration because it's free, one person could download it and install it on 1 machine or a thousand and you couldn't tell the difference.

 

[0roo0roo]

i swear beta was more stable then 1.0. but then again my xp install is aged now.. so i dunno.

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
i swear beta was more stable then 1.0.

And the default buttons looked better too.

 

[Pocatello]

Originally posted by: sparkyclarky
Firefox crashes on me occasionally with Java, and almost always when I view sites that have embedded .wmv files. It's really annoying, and I haven't heard of any solutions for it.

Same problem here.

 

[Hikari]

I've never had a crash, but I guess I don't use Java or look at embedded wmv files.

I agree on the look though, I replace the default theme with the old qute one.

 

[Buz2b]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Yet, that OS only has a 1.3% worldwide share,

I think that number is low, Linux has stolen a huge portion of the server marketplace around the world. That article you linked to says that Linux takes up 28% of the worldwide server shipments.

And desktop penetration in the US is pretty low because MS is a US company and our government essentially promotes them pretty well. But the rest of the world is looking for alternatives and they usually come to Linux, some because they can't afford the prices MS charges, even with the special deals they give to avoid Linux usage, and some because they don't want to be dependent on a US company and even some because they feel government software should be OSS. It's impossible to accurately gauge Linux penetration because it's free, one person could download it and install it on 1 machine or a thousand and you couldn't tell the difference.

I agree with your point about the server market, I was trying to keep the apples to apples in the "discussion" though, and point out the lunacy of saying 5% isn't indicitive of mainstream penetration in the browser market. I think MS is in deep doo-doo in the server area and it's a matter of time before the same kind of numbers start cropping up in the OS marketplace. That's probably why they are taking much longer than anticipated to finish Longhorn; they really can't afford another embarrasment full of security holes.