Yes I am, Stan. Me too. Deeply frustrated with Firefox.
Mashable author Stan Schroeder wrote about Firefox, the software which is right now absorbing 40% of my CPU performance and using 1 GB of total 2 GB of RAM. This is not just another software we are using, this is the “thing” that we are using most of the time when we are using our computers (for the ones using Firefox as their web browser).
Like Stan, I am also using Gmail for emails, Google Calendar, Vitalist, a web-based RSS Reader and so on… %90 of my computer-based activities are on the web and by so I need a web browser to navigate among them. That is Firefox for me, that is still Mozilla Firefox and I have lots of tabs open on it right now.
I really don’t remember the exact date when I moved to Firefox, but I definitely remember why I moved to. I moved to it, because;
- it was faster (now there is Opera),
- it was using low memory (less memory than Internet Explorer),
- it was stable,
- it was safer (at least, we believed in, but it seems not),
- it had many extensions (which made the life easier for me),
- it had tabs,
- it was free,
- it was open-source,
- it was dissentient,
- …
For me, the most important items of this list were 1, 2 and 3 1, 2, 3 and 5. For me, these three four were the main sources of real positive experience of Firefox.
- Now, I am waiting for a tab to open for
a minute15 seconds to a minute, let’s don’t talk about the time needed for Firefox to open. - It is right now absorbing 40% of my CPU performance and using 1 GB of total 2 GB of RAM.
- It crashes
all the timemore than it should be (mostly because of high-level memory and CPU usage). - .
- I am now using more extensions (23 in total) than I was using and life is even easier, no problem with this.
You can read more about other items here, however, I really don’t care about the rest.
Having read the post of Stan, and gone through the comments left there, it seems that there are lots of high-level expectations from Firefox version 3 which is still in Beta. This step can be a milestone for Mozilla. We are on the edge of changing our minds. People are talking about returning back to Internet Explorer and I am thinking of moving to Opera permanently (Now I am an eager user of Opera and I am using it when Firefox is not responding (and this happens usually)).
Firefox had a successful story (which was full of myths) and a better user experience by providing innovations (like tabs, third party add-ons) resulting better overall performance around this successful story. Mozilla played well to combine all these together to build a successful brand experience.
Now there is this contradictory apparent truth: I am not able to experience Firefox as positive as I was able to. Actually, I am not experiencing it positively anymore. I don’t feel comfortable with it. I don’t feel better when I double-click the icon of Mozilla Firefox.
We are using more of the web, less of the desktop and the gap is growing each day. Microsoft is aware of the painful truth. Is Mozilla really aware of the appealing truth? Is Mozilla really aware of that version 3 may be a last chance for them?
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