Comments on: Some Firefox Users Still on Fx2

By: cuz84d

cuz84d — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:34:53 +0000

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist or study to realize what you can test everyday to know FF doesn’t work like IE or any other windows app using standard .net libraries. FF is written by so many contributors it takes forever to get real bugs fixed, we’re always re-writing and taking out, busting, regressions, and just not attending to real world issues (basic problems like mentioned above)
The API’s are not we’ll documented and not modular enough to solve a lot of issues at once like .NET does.

By: cuz84d

cuz84d — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 03:31:09 +0000

Simple. Start by fixing all the old bugs in FF 3 and up, like performance of FF 3, and FF 3.5, printing for one, installer problems, UI problems .. and plugins and whatever other reason people don’t want to use the new version.

People should be able to skip over performance related versions like 3 and 3.5 and go directly to 3.0.1 or 3.1 or 3.5.4.

By: Dean Russ

Dean Russ — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:11:29 +0000

For me, it’s just a case of an old OS. I’m not paying to upgrade, so I’m stuck with winME.

I’m told that there’s a utility called KernelEx that will let Firefox 3.0 run on older versions of Windows, but it makes my system not boot.

By: Pete Jensen

Pete Jensen — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:55:00 +0000

Simple. I give FF3 an honest try every few months. Give up and return to FF2

Annoyances:
– Bookmark management
– Frightening history
– Bookmark management
– Bookmark management

By: qtchic86

qtchic86 — Mon, 25 May 2009 22:07:49 +0000

Well, let’s not forget that many of these FF2 users are could be web designers, simply using the browser to test the site for other FF2 users. Many of the countries listed here happen to have a large population of IT professionals. Check it: http://www.chillibreeze.com/articles/top-countries-outsourcing.asp

By: Eugene

Eugene — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:42:24 +0000

It would be nice if Fx 3 worked faster in GNU/Linux environment.
http://www.tuxradar.com/content/benchmarked-firefox-javascript-linux-and-windows-and-its-not-pretty — situation with performance does not dispose to upgrade.

By: Finite

Finite — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 04:19:21 +0000

I also noticed the lack of FF3 builds for SLED10, after I bought a computer with it preinstalled (I soon abandoned it for Ubuntu).

How many other OSes are able to run FF2 but not 3?

By: FACORAT Fabrice

FACORAT Fabrice — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 11:50:54 +0000

I guess also that is theses countries, most people have access to Internet from cyber-coffee. If the manager of the internet coffee don’t update Firefox, then the user end up using FF2.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 00:34:50 +0000

I’ve used some other people’s computers that have Fx2 on them and started to upgrade to Fx3 but by the time I’d finished using the machine the update hadn’t finished downloading by a long way. Somehow working towards quicker downloads would help.

By: Steve

Steve — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 19:14:32 +0000

In the case of my Vista 64bit, as a normal user I never get a prompt and the Check for Updates is grayed out. This is using FF3. I have to run Firefox as an admin user, then I can update it. Many wouldn’t notice such a thing was happening. So maybe user permissions is the big culprit.