[geeks] Firefox regression...

[Mark]

I've used it on Windows and IE7 beats FF3 for most stuff. I hate to  
say it but IMHO IE7 is a great browser. It's still not perfect but  
it's good enough, and considering it's predecessors, it's  
revolutionary for an MS browser.

On OS X Safari beats FF3's ass into a cocked hat all over the place.  
It's faster, crashes less, hardly ever memory leaks, it does hog RAM  
but only usually because I have a lot of tabs open. Plus OS X  
integration is a lot tighter in Safari than FF3.

Frankly I think Mozilla are on a highway to nowhere with Firefox.  
2.0.0.x has descended into the worst browser I've used in a long time,  
it's stupidly slow and crashy even without many add-ons. Where'd it  
all go wrong? Firefox used to be lightweight, slick and fast, and ran  
rings around its competitors. Now it's become the same crappy sluggish  
bloatware rubbish mot other browsers are, and technology like WebKit  
is slaughtering  Gecko now on OS X and Linux for speed and stability  
(in KDE4 and OS X respectively). WebKit on Windows still has a ways to  
go but even Safari for Windows isn't that bad, it just doesn't feel  
right using it on a Windows machine, and it's not all there.

As a web designer you;d think I'd be ultra critical of browsers but I  
just use what the hell works. Currently for me that's IE7 on Windows  
and Safari on OS X. I use Firefox 2.x on Linux because it's provided  
with Ubuntu as standard, but I don't like it much.

As for their Guinness Book of Records thing on Tuesday you won't find  
me rushing to download the new version.


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