Comments on: Why Mozilla sucks? Fosdem 2010

By: Richard Neva

Richard Neva — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:04:40 +0000

OK, I have tried Mozilla before and always quit and dissolved it from my computer. This time, today I had Mozilla with Google for a browser and things were moving along. Then tonight I noticed my browser had changed! Yeah, no more Google when I hit the Mozilla button! I get AVG browser and I have had my times with those assholes too. I fooled around for awhile on the computer trying to rid it of that AVG browser which was terrible of course. Not that Google is that great but at least you have a chance of getting what you want with them, not so with AVG. I finally uploaded Google Gold or something like that and it was a browser much to my surprise! It works for me and when I hit the Google circle I am in like Flin! Of course I had to wipe Mozilla off the computer, that was of no use to me anymore. When I went into my registry on my computer I discovered so many kernels of AVG I could not count them and they would not delete! But as soon as Mozilla was gone they vanished too. What does that say about Mozilla? Think about that.

By: flash crash

flash crash — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 03:08:12 +0000

Mozilla continues to turn out a browser that crashes with Flash. Then, they do not help. No help. Nada. You can read cries for help all over the internet. No help from Mozilla.

NO help from Mozilla.

Mozilla sucks.

No help from MOZILLA!

Mozilla sucks.

NO HELP from Mozilla.

MOZILLA SUCKS!

By: Name

Name — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:25:59 +0000

Firefox is equivalent to a use and throw item, good for initial use. I eventually learn’t i made a big blunder choosing Firefox. It cannot stop irritating popups and block ads even with ad block plus installed. It just cannot handle multiple tabs/windows playing flash/video content of different formats – crashed every single time when i tried to do so. The plug-in container thing does not go off even after closing browser. Some times there is a message like “Firefox is already running….x y z” but you cannot find the browser anywhere on the screen!! Every time a download starts, the download manager comes onto the front instead of running silently in background…When accessing a page from history,few days before, the highlighted history automatically shifts to present after opening the page, instead of staying there at the earlier date opened. This is very irritating and you have to open that past date in history repeatedly if you are searching for some page from it. There are many other problems like the ones above which were sufficient for me to dump this browser.

By: null

null — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 19:46:13 +0000

Mozilla sucks, they are not able to write fast software.

Cannot be compared with superiority of chrome.
Firefox and Thunderbird suck big time.

By: YemSalat

YemSalat — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 19:20:12 +0000

I do not like FF simply because its help system is very user-unfriendly.

I love its F12 feature which is way better then any other browser can offer (and this is being said by an Opera fan)

Ok to make a long sory short – I just downloaded v4 which is about a month old to the date. At startup it asked me if I want to import all my bookmarks from Opera. “Yay!” I thought.
However the process was not a straight line – it offered me about 5 or 7 different “Operas”
(“ProgramFiles Opera”, “OperaBookmarks”, “OperaWhatever”…)
So I just chose the one that said “Opera”. Then FF showed me a message, something like: “Congratulations you successfully imported: _blank_”
Nothing was imported.

Ok, I thought “I just need to import it from another Opera option…”
Click on the main menu – nothing about importing there.

I go to the help center, type my problem, it immidiatelly finds an answer.
And guess what the answer is:

“You can easily import all your stuff from other browsers – just click on the ‘Import’ option in the main menu”

Very nice, thank you…

PS
Who designed this textbox? Its background replicates the typing-cursor color, very difficult to navigate.

By: Pham Huy Anh

Pham Huy Anh — Fri, 14 May 2010 11:43:47 +0000

Hi, technically Mozilla stuff may “suck” but the idea of open plugin and everything is free is great.

BTW, I have to admit that XUL “is reinvent the wheel”.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 15:24:30 +0000

Well, whenever I use anything flash / shockwave. Firefox decides its going to screw up all of the sudden. Make all my bookmark icons , the reload button, the stop loading button, the home button, the forward a page button, the back a page button, and my add on-s vanish until I close out of it so it can tell me I have Firefox already running but not responding then make me shut down my computer log back in and have the whole thing start over again.

By: Bogo

Bogo — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:24:42 +0000

It was not approved.

By: James

James — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 05:36:27 +0000

So how did your FOSDEM talk go? Are the slides or a recording available?

By: Janson

Janson — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:42:39 +0000

I’m yet to get a single mail reassuring me that my bug has been fixed. Numerous crashes. I’ve always made effort to type details about the crash. I just pray and keep using Firefox. Hope my crashes are fixed sub-rosa.

Startup time is unpardonable. ’nuff said.

And firefox is bottom heavy, obese even. It just doesn’t go away when i close it. The process runs in my Task Manager forever.

I’m averagely literate and so have no problem in navigating the SUMO. But could i expect it from my bright yet old-school grandpa?

Why would any sane netbook user install firefox?

Add-ons guys are great though. They are geniuses, their apllications mirror my mind and most of them always painstakingly answer my dumb e-mails asking them questions. In fact add-ons are single greatest the reason i love firefox. Community, rightly, is the strength of the fox.

By: Marc Diethelm

Marc Diethelm — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:01:15 +0000

Mozilla SUCKS because XUL was never completed, formalized or versioned and is unusable to create precisely designed cross platform GUIs other than a browser. Endless CSS hacks are needed to get kinda close to that goal. Mozilla the platform never materialized (apparently in order to ensure the survival of Firefox. Resources were and are limited).

Mozilla SUCKS because Fennec has no implementation in Java for mobiles.

I love Mozilla.

By: Robyn Wiles

Robyn Wiles — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 01:25:07 +0000

Thunderbird can’t migrate its own files from one HDD to another automatically. It gives options for the competition but not for their own client! How shocking is that?