Why move to Firefox 3.0?

Firefox 3

In my experience Firefox 2 and 3 both crash far more often than IE7. I've seen FF3 crash more often that FF2, but they may be about even. FF recovers relatively gracefully from a crash, but it's still annoying.

Not a "war" exactly, more like a "thing"

...a religious thing. I like Firefox 2 and 3. And while I use Windows at least 75% of the time (I live in the real world), I am ALWAYS suspicious of Microsoft's motives. Whatever Microsoft's agenda may be, I'm certain of one thing: neither my best interests; nor the best interests of anyone outside of Microsoft; factor in to it.

and... a Bug... in Firefox? Oh My God!!, I've never had anything like that with Microsoft products!

IE7 is big and bloated and slow - a perfect companion to Vista.

No Firefox 3... but thumbs up on Safari?

OK. Sure, Firefox 3 had a big vulnerability on its first day of release... just like every other major browser. The question really is... how long will it take to fix? It's hard to imagine someone writing a whole rant about Firefox having a vulnerability and not being more secure--and then endorsing the Windows version of Safari, which Apple did a horrendously slow job of patching (but finally did with 3.12). Maybe that's the fear with Firefox... because you already made the mistake of adopting Safari too soon?

In any case, it seems pretty ridiculous to include an endorsement for Safari in the same article ranting about FF3.

..and for the record, I like IE7 tabs better too--and they didn't change in Firefox 3. Still, if you had bothered to try Firefox 3, you'd find its handling of certificates to be dramatically better than even IE7 (especially invalid ones). Spyware protection is better. It has a lot of nice benefits.

I think IE7 is more usable, but if you're going to knock FF3... please don't even bother to mention Safari favorably.

Here's a few reasons

1. It's faster, much faster than FF2, mostly in handling JavaScript. And yes, it is MUCH faster than IE7. Before you brag about IE7 being faster than FF2, you should look at FF3, to see how FF2 and IE7 are slow.

2. It's much more efficient than FF2, and IE7, less memory is used, ad more efficiently.

3. The world my friend, moves on. It's called progress. Since FF3 is free and it's a proven enhancement over the current version, you might want to give it a try. Besides, would you hold on IE8 when it comes out? Would you refuse an automatic update from MS? About Safari?

I honestly hate when people criticize products they haven't even tried. It's not FF vs IE flamewar that bothers me, it's really the lack of spirit in trying something new before writing an otherwise pretty pointless article.