As a long suffering Internet Explorer user, I rejoiced at the introduction of Mozilla’s Firefox web browser in 2004 and it felt awfully good to give Microsoft the raspberry. Firefox has grown steadily in popularity and is now the browser of choice for nearly one in five web surfers.
But familiarity can breed contempt, and while open-sourced Firefox was initially a delight to use compared to IE, it has developed an annoying habit of locking up when multiple windows are open. That habit has now become beyond aggravating and Mozilla’s unwillingness or inability to deal with it may yet drive me away.
This is not a personal thing. The lock-ups occur on both of the laptops I use and on the powerful computers at my university job. Uninstalling and reinstalling Firefox doesn’t help, while Mozilla seems to acknowledge the problem in a backhanded way by including a feature on a newer version that allows the user to restore previous open tabs after a lock-up and crash. Meanwhile, just the other day a bigtime blogger appealed to his readers for help in dealing with the problem, which also is making him bonkers.
A two-fold plea: Does anyone know how to deal with this? And better still, does anyone know somebody associated with Godzilla . . . er, Mozilla whose cage they can rattle on behalf of myself and fellow sufferers?
Thank you in advance.