Comments on: Paul Thurrott Says Firefox 2 Is A Dud

By: netster007x

netster007x — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:35:26 +0000

I’m afraid I may need to agree about the options page. Although the Fx2 options reduce sub-tabs that must be sifted thru, I liked always knowing I could easily find downloads, cookies, cache, history, forms, and passwords in Fx1.5. Since the old Privacy tab has been disbanded, it does get a little annoying having to guess at Privacy, Security, or Advanced tabs.

Otherwise, Fx2 is undoubtedly an improvement worth updating to

By: ffextensionguru

ffextensionguru — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:54:38 +0000

He would make a good movie critic as he must have only used the product for a few minutes before writing his review.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:54:32 +0000

Just like most of you have mentioned here Firefox 2 has extreme improvements in stability. Not to mention the large number of memory leaks that were fixed.

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:22:46 +0000

@SLA: you’re right, you should not compare them like that.

FF2.0 is much more stable and faster than 1.5.X.X

I can agree on Thurrott that the ‘options’ are a mess

By: FÃ¡bio P. Sousa

FÃ¡bio P. Sousa — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:57:12 +0000

Well, my FF 1.5 does not crash,even with loads of TABS… i’m happy with 1.5.0.7 cus it’s stable.

I’ll dl 2.0 when all my exts get update, including my theme.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:54:55 +0000

Maybe Paul Thurrott is a dud

By: SLA

SLA — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:19:55 +0000

surprisingly solid IE 7I recommend you do the same, or switch to the surprisingly solid IE 7.

Whahahahaha!!! Kidding??

OK, FX 2.0 have less improvements over FX 1.5, than IE 7.0 over IE 6.0. But… are you kidding? You should compare NOT improvements, but OVERALL VALUE of release products. And look what we have then:

1. IE7 is one-and-half times better than IE6.
2. FX 2.0 is four times better than IE 7.0 and six times better than IE6.
3. And FX 1.5 is three times better than IE 7.0 (!!!), and about four-five times better than IE6.

Thats my opinion.

By: Nate The Great

Nate The Great — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:01:14 +0000

I think he’s missing that fact that a lot of changes were made “under the hood”

For me, 1.5 crashed almost twice everyday. Right now 2.0 hasn’t crashed once!