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Anyone Else Have Firefox 3.0.1 Problems?

To Start Things off I triple boot Mac Os X Tiger, Ubuntu Ultimate 1.9 and Windows XP and on all three i have Firefox 3.0.1, on all 3 Operating Systems and It Crash's whenever I load a webpage so currently im using Opera as a backup to browse my internet until i can find out whats wrong with it,
Does any-body else have this problem??
 
What are the advantages of Opera over Firefox?  and don't say less crashing...  FF has only ever crashed once on me.
 

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I'm with Des on this one. FF3 had a few issues that were getting too much to bare! I'm currently equipped with Opera and IE6 (to see how badly it parses my websites).
 

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I haven't had many problems with FF3 yet, but I'm going to switch to Opera because one thing about it is ticking me off: the way FF3 handles the imgzoom tags on this site! It interpolates them for some reason, and it makes it balls-awful if you want to look at a sprite.

I originally switched out of Opera because the UI was a little tough to get used to after so much time using Firefox (also the lack of a pulldown Back button menu,) but I figure that imgzoom tags make it worth it.
 
Totti":1p9nzxnk said:
What are the advantages of Opera over Firefox?

ah, where to begin..

Actually, the best feature of Opera that i absolutely love is the speed-dial feature, which is fucking amazing. whenever you open a new tab, it will have a thing with 9 of your top visited sites (google chrome stole this)

they also have lots of cool little things like MOUSE GESTURES (i don't use them i personally find them annoying but it's a cool concept) and a garbage can so you can quickly go back to tabs that you've recently closed
 
Wow I Didnt Expect These many replys in 1 hour wow.
Well I Guess i should make Opera my Primary i just love the speed dial feature.
Do you know if Opera is Available for Mac & Ubuntu?
 

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Google Chrome has that speed dial feature from Opera, and I'm digging it. I never used Opera much except for testing, but it's definitely a cool feature now that I'm using it. My big complaint about Opera is that it runs on an older version of gecko (the rendering engine mozilla developed, used in firefox). It's the same version running in Firefox 2, which isn't terrible, but FF3 is faster and less buggy. I guess there's also a way to make Opera use the IE7 rendering engine, which is just gag-inducing.
No Chrome on Linux or Mac yet though, so if speed dial is a must-have feature I'd look for Opera in those OSs. Chrome's other features are pretty badass though if you're running Windows. I have only been using it a day and I already find it's the first browser I go to (out of the six on my task bar I have to keep around for development testing).
 
I havent had any serious problems with FF 3. I've had ZERO crashes, which is more than I can say for Opera, which crashed thirty times in two days. Also, every Opera feature mentioned on this page is available for Firefox.
 

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Yeah that's true, my copy of firefox weighs in at about 70 megs on load these days with the plugins I run. Chrome sucks down 20mb per tab, and Opera weighs in around 28. So at least it's light.
 
I don't rum Firefox at all- Even though I'm using the Cocoa theme, it's slow compared to Safari, Shiira and Konqueror.

As for Chrome- The only thing you'll want it for is if you like the UI. It uses the same rendering engine (WebKit) as Konqueror (KDE, Ubuntu) and Safari (Mac).
 

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Cocoa":ju9timyq said:
I don't rum Firefox at all- Even though I'm using the Cocoa theme, it's slow compared to Safari, Shiira and Konqueror.

As for Chrome- The only thing you'll want it for is if you like the UI. It uses the same rendering engine (WebKit) as Konqueror (KDE, Ubuntu) and Safari (Mac).
I actually have really bad performance problems in Safari on Windows, it runs like a fat man after a Mc.Donalds binge. It's painful just waiting for it to load the apple start page so I can actually go do something. I don't use Konqueror much so no comment there. Chrome does use WebKit, and runs it well, but it runs its own Javascript engine which is where the performance lies (see the other thread).
 
Safari is slow on Windows, I admit. Runs faster than Firefox and Opera on Mac, though.

As the opener said- He triple boots.

In addition, it might help that KDE has a Windows build now. It's not a shell replacement, but it'll get a running version of Konqueror.
 

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I Prefer the interface, I'm more familiar with the conventions. I've never been a big fan of Mac's U.I. and thus Gnome.
 

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