[Gllug] Guardian says Firefox is rubbish

[Rob Crowther]

Peter Childs wrote:
> 1. You can only run it once at a time,

Add -no-remote to your shortcut and you can run it as many times as you 
have profiles.  Though I'm not sure what benefit you're after here?  The 
default behaviour for both Opera and Konqueror browsers (on my box 
anyway) is to open a new window in the existing process, just the same 
as what Firefox does.

> 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.

While I'll accept this is possible I've never had it happen to me. 
Power cuts, machine crashes, flash or java inspired hangs and Firefox 
always asks if I want to restore the previous session.

> 4. Its written in probably the worst scripting language ever invented,
> If it was pure Javascript it would be better.
>
The only scripting language used in the browser is Javascript, the 
compiled parts are in C++ and most of the UI is in the declarative XUL. 
  What is this other scripting language?


Rob
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