Waccoon wrote:
Exactly! Why would anyone want to use the bug-infested security hazard known as IE when Firefox works so well?!
Not to trumpet IE, but FireFox still has tons of problems. It trashes its profiles regularly, must be WIPED OUT if you want to re-install it, or else damaged profiles will be retained, the download manager sucks, it crashes, extensions are always having version conflicts, bad extentions blow up the whole browser, it still suffers from an annoying "Sticky Alt Key" bug that has been in the browser since 0.8, the JavaScript debugger actually ignores certain critical errors... etc., etc., etc..
I have been using Firefox for over three years and have never had it trash a profile. I also must have rolled it out to at least 30 customers, none have reported Firefox stability issues. I don't remember the last time Firefox crashed on me, no Firefox crashes in my event log. I got used to the download manager, it works ok. I don't use any extensions. "Sticky alt key"? I don't know about the JS console, I don't do web development really, none that involves JS anyway.
Firefox does have its problems, I have seen it crash and do sucky things, but I think maybe you should consider that some of these issues may be localised to your setup, and aren't necessarily global issues.
I've seen Internet Explorer do lots of strange things too, including virtually all of the things you describe above, but I don't discount the fact that millions of people use it every day and are completely satisfied with it. Same goes for Opera, and every other web browser ('millions' aside).
