I'm a big fan of Firefox. It's a great web browser. I find it far more enjoyable to use than Internet Explorer, Opera, or any other browser I've ever used. I've loved Firefox ever since I first got my hands on it, which was sometime back in the Version 0.8 stage or so.
That being said, sometimes Firefox really ticks me off. Lately, in fact, it crashes on me about once per day. They aren't random crashes, either. They typically occur when I visit pages that run heavy scripts or code of some sort. A page heavy on DHTML killed Firefox today. That was after an earlier crash, the cause of which I don't recall. Two crashes in one day is unforgivable, especially crashes caused by activities Firefox needs to be able to handle if it's going to claim to be the best web browser available. I don't have any proof, but I'm tempted to say that I have more crashes with 1.0.4 than I had with earlier versions; I don't recall this kind of grief happening a couple months ago.
I realize Firefox is just at 1.0, and 1.0s will always be somewhat immature. But daily (or even weekly) crashes are something up with which users will not put. At least, not the users that Firefox needs to attract in order to become a true competitor to Internet Explorer. Firefox 1.1 is due within the next few months; I hope that version gets rid of some of the crashy behavior so that more people will be willing to give Firefox the chance it deserves.
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