Monday, March 29, 2004

firefox

For the first time in a long time, I ran into problems with Mozilla Firefox. Why is it that when you are actually working on a computer, software starts to fail? I've been using firefox for months now, and I've never had a problem. Ofcourse all this time I was just surfing and stuff, not actually doing something important! Why is it now that when I am working on the research paper that it starts crashing, and showing other bugs.

One other really irritating bug I found is that when trying to copy a URL from the browser to an application like Word causes all sorts of problems. At first it simply wouldn't copy. Which is irritating in itself. I mean copy and pasting was supposed to have problems only in the Linux/Unix world! Anyway, after that the browser just started doing plain wierd stuff like hogging the CPU for a few seconds and so forth. I finally had to shut it down and open up internet explorer loosing all the links I had open in firefox! Frustrating!

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...