Comments on: Mozilla Firefox 3 Needs A Fix Already

By: darkally

darkally — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:58:59 +0000

is it just me or does ff3 crash more frequently than ff2 did?

By: CoolFinalFan

CoolFinalFan — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 06:53:02 +0000

Firefox 3.0 crashed on me twice after re-install twice , it still crashed , better yet it didn’t even open but just crashed, I switched to using Opera’s newest version!!

By: TomWij

TomWij — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:27:21 +0000

FF3 scrolls slow on various websites here, doesn’t matter if Smooth Scrolling is on or of… Didn’t had this problem on FF2.

By: Ron Schenone

Ron Schenone — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:54:36 +0000

Thanks for all of the comments everyone.
I guess we should call it a ‘new record’.

MKx – I thought that might be the case. Makes one wonder why? Since RC1 most likely had the same exploit.

Thanks again, Ron

By: tony bishop

tony bishop — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:55:19 +0000

FF id not break any record – there was none to break!

By: MKx

MKx — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:00:09 +0000

It was in FF 2.0 as well, so it has nothing to do with “rush” release, it’s just that any code bound to have something like that, you just eliminate as much as you can.

Plus it looks like the “researcher” was holding this vulnerability for Firefox 3.0 final release to make the sale.

By: Xyem

Xyem — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 07:03:37 +0000

I don’t see what the big deal is with this. Most ( if not all ) software ships with bugs/vulnerabilities which need fixing. This just means that one was _found_ within 5 hours which isn’t inherently bad.

Issues found sooner are issues fixed sooner.

By: the oracle

the oracle — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:27:21 +0000

Haste makes waste. Doing a final run through of the code is more important than meeting a self-imposed deadline – then again, perhaps the coders don’t grasp the problem yet.

Staying with 2.x seems to have no benefit, so most will probably continue downloading with abandon.