Get over it people, it's a sodding browser

More feeds were axed from my reading list, everyone going on and on about firefox 3 and being downloaded, blah blah blah.

So a bunch of very well paid developers(do you know how much money they make every time you use the search bar in the side) fix a few memory leaks, upgrade to a third party rendering engine, move buttons around and add a different location bar.

More importantly, the same fucking thing has been around and has been the same since betal, rc1, and so on. We’ve all been sefing it, and please face it, it’s a frickin’ browser, not your love child.

I don’t care if you can install plugins to nurse fractures and boners, but at the end, it shows me webpages, and has been doing a pretty decent job at that for the past four years.

So please, do the world a favour and don’t reiterate the same old bullshit about firefox extensions people will die without, top ‘n’ lists, more tips on how to make the green buttons blue, and waste everyone’s time and bandwidth on it.

Yes, you can go on in the comment fields downstairs about how my rant is undeserved. Go ahead, write “firefox is teh (somthing)”, and automatically certify yourself an idiot.

But remember this: firefox is a piece of software, not without it’s flaws(gecko really isn’t the best renderer out there), it’s horribly documented as far as the developer docs are concerned, it still bloats up after ten tabs. //…snip

[update]: I went for breakfast. I realized I’ve been getting cranky. Nights of debugging javascript can do that to you I guess.

I think I’ll let the ranting stay, but try and turn it more into a Zero punctuation style of ranting.

2 Responses to “Get over it people, it's a sodding browser”


  • Right now I’m reading feeds w/ FFX-3 and Google Reader on my piece of crap 1.6MHZ P4 Dell laptop. I’m a pathetic loser so I have about 300 feeds in my reader, and when I’m just browsing through the whole whack with FFX-2 it loads about 10 flash players, slows to a crawl and starts roasting my testicles. So far with FFX-3, G-Reader is snappy and there may yet be a chance for me to sire more children. I’m quite happy with this new browser love-child.

  • Rob, ff3 is good. yes it’s faster. I’m using it right now and switched back from opera.

    But obsessing over it non-stop is a no-no

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