[Gllug] Guardian says Firefox is rubbish

Martin A. Brooks martin at hinterlands.org
Sun Jul 6 21:25:13 UTC 2008


John G Walker wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 11:08:18 +0100 "Martin A. Brooks"
> <martin at hinterlands.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> Peter Childs wrote:
>>     
>>> 3. If you do remove these locks you will lose all your bookmarks and
>>> the url bar will stop working properly.
>>>     
>>>       
>> No.
>>
>>     
>
> Perhaps a little more empirical evidence from one or the other of you -
> or an experienced third party -  would help those of us who haven't used
> FF3,

Firefox does sometimes crash, and it when it does it _does_ sometimes 
leave obscure lock files in odd places which, until you manually delete 
them, means FF won't start.

I've never lost all my bookmarks, and nor has the location bar stopped 
working properly after doing so.

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