I've been debating about upgrading from Firebird to Firefox, the new Mozilla based browser, but have seen enough problem reports to decide to hold off until after this week's trip to Colorado. Plus, I'm not looking forward to reinstalling all my extensions -- 26 at last count. And the notice on the official Firebird extensions site,
During periods of heavy use, the extensions are taken offline to help maintain a healthy, responsive server. Please check back later! For now, please use Extension Room.
seems especially clueless. As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of Firebird / Firefox is the extensions. I also don't understand why Ben Goodger and the other developers are so opposed to the Tab Browser Extensions feature set? I understand that they have some problems with how the features are implemented, but to reject including or creating a better extension for some of the most popular features of Firebird / Firefox is nuts.
I'd be curious to hear what other Firebird users' upgrade experiences have been.
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The problems I was having were mostly related to CSS -- odd things like padding/margin problems that weren't present in Firefox. There was also a problem in registering Firefox as the default viewer for local HTML/PHP files.
I'm with you on the extensions line of thought. Trying to stifle any third-party development for a product trying to gain acceptance is ridiculous.
Posted by: dennis on February 15, 2004 05:02 PM