A Brief Poll

[sinanju]

Firefox 2.0.0.1 sucks like:

a) A Hoover
b) A whore behind on her rent
c) Wrong. It both sucks and blows!

I say this because

a) I just finished restoring my OS (good thing I'd just backed it up a couple of days ago), because
b) I upgraded to Firefox 2.0 this morning, and
c) It hosed all my nifty extensions (Greasemonkey, Flashblock, NoScript, etc), so
d) I tried to "downgrade" back to Firefox 1.5 but the damage was done, and on top of that,
e) Whenever I tried to load ANY version of Firefox at that point all the buttons on the toolbar vanished and it just sat there whirring away forever, "downloading data from Google, which
f) Prompted me to say, "WHAT is it downloading from Google!" (in rather more colorful language).

So I pulled out the backup DVD and restored the system. This was a good opportunity to test it and make sure it works.

It does. However, I lost the last day or two of emails I'd saved. On the other hand, Firefox is back to its original, reliable, familair status. All in all, a net win.

I won't be upgraded to Firefox 2.0 again for quite a while.

Comments

[aquamarcia.livejournal.com]

I'm using Firefox 2 on my Ubuntu partition and 1.5 in Windows. The extensions I use work fine under both versions, but in my case I never made an upgrade from 1.5 to 2. It may not be version 2 that sucks, but the upgrade process itself.

[sinanju.livejournal.com]

Yeah, you may be right. I believe I'm actually running Firefox 2.0 on my Windows XP machine at work--and have most (but not all) of the extensions loaded there. So it probably is the upgrade process that's the real culprit.

But I don't need 2.0 on this machine, so I'll just stick with 1.5 for now.

[aquamarcia.livejournal.com]

Yeah, not needing 2.0 is why my Windows machines are still running 1.5. My Ubuntu install came with 2.0, so it was easy to go with right away.