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A Major Milestone In My Marriage

Posted At : August 5, 2008 10:43 AM | Posted By : todd sharp
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So this morning my wife and I are getting ready for work, the usual routine of running around getting the kids ready, making coffee and whatnot and she casually states to me "I think I'm done with Internet Explorer. It's so slow and it crashes all the time." I had to simply stop what I was doing and embrace her in a loving hug. OK, so I didn't really do that, but I have to say I'm extremely proud of her for finally making the decision to use Firefox. She'd be the first to admit she is not terribly computer literate, but even she has finally realized that IE is the 'devil's browser' and is ready to make the switch.

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And so the great migration begins... ;)

# Posted By Raymond Camden | 8/5/08 10:53 AM

Buy that woman some flowers!!

Now you can start working on changes OS's... :)

# Posted By Jim Priest | 8/5/08 10:55 AM

Good one Jim.

Firefox - the Gateway drug to Mac. ;)

# Posted By Raymond Camden | 8/5/08 11:05 AM

LOL. I didn't say anything about Mac :)

Me and the kids both use Linux (Edubuntu) but the wife isn't convinced (yet)...

# Posted By Jim Priest | 8/5/08 11:24 AM

I think she's about 2 years too late. Sadly it's Firefox is the slowest and buggiest of the browsers these days. If it wasn't for all the add-ons, I'd be using Safari exclusively (on Vista).

# Posted By Adrock | 8/5/08 11:26 AM

Are you on a Mac or PC Adrok? I found FF to be buggy on the Mac in v2, but v3 has been a heck of a lot better.

# Posted By Raymond Camden | 8/5/08 11:28 AM

Wow, Firefox usage wasn't a stipulation in the prenup agreement? :)

# Posted By Brian Swartzfager | 8/5/08 11:28 AM

Wow speaking of OS - my Vista laptop decided to stop running any Ajax requests in an AIR app that I'm developing locally so I tried a good old restart. Now it won't boot. Fun times!

# Posted By todd sharp | 8/5/08 11:55 AM

hehehe, this made my day.

Thank you!

# Posted By Mat Evans | 8/5/08 12:02 PM

Now that I'm w/ Mozilla, u have no idea how happy this makes me. Be sure to get her to visit http://addons.mozilla.org which is the section I'm involved with. That will let her truly make Firefox her own personal browser.

# Posted By Rey Bango | 8/5/08 1:48 PM

I've been migrating my wife to Firefox as well. A few months ago, after she lost a few emails at hotmail, I convinced her to use Firefox just for the form memory thing it does, where you can always hit back and get to your message. She liked it for the spell checker, too.

The other site she visits most often is craigslist, so I installed a greasemonkey script to preview images on items listed for sale. She loves it and uses it almost exclusively.

# Posted By Nathan Strutz | 8/5/08 1:50 PM

Wonder why I always mis-capitalize Firefox (I always write FireFox)...probably the whole Coldfusion vs. ColdFusion thing... :)

# Posted By todd sharp | 8/5/08 2:07 PM

Devils browser is it for sure, I just wish firefox wouldn't crash so often for me, perhaps I have some unstable extensions but man I think firefox crashes at least 6 times per day.

What have I done wrong to make it crash so often?

# Posted By Gary Gilbert | 8/5/08 4:03 PM

The _only_ time I see it crash is sometimes when I try to close a tab with GMail in it... Could that be the issue with you Gary?

# Posted By todd sharp | 8/5/08 4:10 PM

In general I like FF... even now that I am on a Mac I like it better than Safari. ;-)

But, I'm in the same boat as Gary.. FF crashes at least 2-3 times a day, more often when I try to use (not develop!) a Flex or Flash app. :-(

# Posted By Chris | 8/6/08 3:41 AM

Hi guys,

the next step is Opera - a fantasticly stable browser, passes any ACID-test and has tonnes of add-ons etc. Never looked back since installing Opera (been using it a couple of years now)!

Personally I stopped using FF after version 2.0.0.6 or so, as the memory leaks where so horrendous. I only keep it around for cross-browser testing. Version 3 hasn't improved I feel, only blocked me from using some of my favourite add-ons, as they're "not compatible"...

So, Opera for the masses ;-)

# Posted By Sebastiaan | 8/6/08 5:53 AM

@Sebastian

I have Opera installed at a client's place (still Windows) and I am having quite a few issues with Opera 9.5...

The web mail interface I use makes heavy use of CSS and JavaScript and Opera does not support many things the way the other browsers do.

Even a simple click that is supposed to close a window does not always work. More complicated things like right click context menus or selecting rows in a list with SHIFT-click never work.

While I can not judge, if the coding is done according to standards, it works in both FF and IE.

# Posted By Chris | 8/6/08 7:01 AM

Folks definitely seem to be having different experiences with Firefox 3 stability. I run FF3 on Windows XP with several add-ons (Web Developer Toolbar, Tab Mix Plus, YSlow, Delicious, Foxmarks, a few others), generally with 4-8 tabs open, and it's only crashed on me once (and that was probably my own fault).

So I wonder what the common denominator is between the folks who have it crash 2-3 times a day?

# Posted By Brian Swartzfager | 8/6/08 9:10 AM

Hi Todd,

what I usually experience is that websites or -apps done badly don't tend to work in Opera, BECAUSE of Opera's strict CSS and DOM compliance! No browser adheres more vehemently to standards than Opera - it's founder is also one of the W3C founders ;-) Therefore I keep lesser browsers around to see how the authour intended for the website or -app to look, feel and work. With the coming of Safari for Windows at least I now can see the world any Mac-enthousiast does, and it keeps me up-to-speed on quirks for that browser ;-)

I do have to agree with you (as do many Opera users) that 9.5 was released TOO SOON - alas it's bugprone, so the latest 9.27 or was it .28 version is a lot stabler!

# Posted By Sebastiaan | 8/6/08 9:59 AM

I converted my wife last year.

That said, I find Firefox 3 a bit crashy.

# Posted By Brian Meloche | 8/7/08 5:20 PM

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