[Gllug] Guardian says Firefox is rubbish

[Caroline Ford]

I haven't had any of these problems tbh.

Caroline

2008/7/6 Peter Childs <peterachilds at gmail.com>:
> 2008/7/5 Jose Luis Martinez <jjllmmss at googlemail.com>:
>> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 9:12 PM, michael norman <michaeltnorman at ukfsn.org> wrote:
>>> I'll post this here without much comment other than to suggest that as a
>>> Guardian reader for several decades it makes me think about buying the
>>> Independent
>>>
>>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jul/03/firefox.opera
>>>
>>> Mike
>>
>> Nice piece  of journalism: extrapolating personal preferences as set
>> in stone truisms about development philosophies.
>>
>> Those media studies schools are not doing their work properly ....
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>
> Actually part of me actually agrees (Without reading the article), the
> Latest version of Firefox (3.0) has serious flaws.
>
> 1. You can only run it once at a time,
> 2. If your machine get switched off or firefox is not closed
> "correctly" firefox will not start again with out removing some very
> difficult to find lock files.
> 3. If you do remove these locks you will lose all your bookmarks and
> the url bar will stop working properly.
> 4. Its written in probably the worst scripting language ever invented,
> If it was pure Javascript it would be better.
>
> But IE is no better really, just with different failings....
>
> Peter
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