Greetings, nerds.
I am a gmail user. I love gmail. It’s 102 degrees in my apartment, my computer is overheating, and I’m writing to tell you about a bug. It’s that important to me.
Running Windows XP, Gmail does not seem to function on Firefox anymore. Maybe this is a bug. Maybe it is a virus. I really don’t know, but it’s too hot to care.
I want to present you with a link that will tell you more. It’s a thread on a Mozilla blog. Mozilla is the company that makes Firefox. I posted on it.
It’s baffling because I had so much love for Firefox. Now… well, now… now I just don’t know anymore. I’ll have to revert back to 3.5.10.
https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/715725
(By the way, this doesn’t seem to affect my Mac running Snow Leopard.)
Update: Friday, July 9, 2010
I tried reverting back to 3.5.10 and the problem persisted.
I’ve made the switch to Chrome and so far have been quite pleased except for the ‘new tab’ stubbornness–that is, you can’t customize what page you see when you open a new tab. Highly annoying. There’s an extension to redirect this, but that isn’t exactly authentic and seems rather flakey to have to do.
So. No more Firefox for me, or so it seems. We’re talking about migrating our entire office to Chrome now, as well, to prevent further suckary on behalf of the once noble Mozilla project.
Update: Saturday, August 7, 2010
It’s been a month since I switched from Firefox to Chrome. In general I’m very pleased with it. It’s much faster than Firefox or IE, which is as nice as it is curious. I will have to look into how they do this.
There are tons of plugins, just like FF. The screen real estate is handled well. It’s all very thin. There are also lots of themes, but I don’t usually get into that for the sake of saving a few megabytes of memory.
The one thing I really, REALLY don’t like about chrome: When you hit the new tab button, you get a very lame history page that looks quite terrible. It is poorly designed and incredibly ugly–despite its being rather useful. What I would prefer is my own option of setting the new tab page to be Google, ironically, which I can do with a plugin, but it isn’t an elegant solution.
