While Firefox 3 is making headlines with the number of downloads and the technical writers are singing the praises of the newer, better, shinier browser, Firefox 3 is annoying me. The simple reason is that some of the add-ons, which I have come to depend upon, do not work. For me, that drawback is major. It disrupts work and concentration.

Firefox could compile a list easily. It could list all the add-on that would not work with the new browser. This list could be constantly revised as developers updated their work and make their particular add-on compatible with the new version. Certainly, the developers of the most popular add-ons will update soon and have their extensions work with the new version of Firefox. Until then, for some of us, it is just a load of muttering about how we “should have waited… should have waited… should have waited”.

Catherine Forsythe