Firefox has been my browser of choice ever since it came out, but the latest version, 2.0, has been irritating. It seems to be very slow at loading websites, especially after it's been up and running for some time. I can run Firefox 2 and Explorer 6 on Win XP Pro, and sites that never finish loading on Firefox load in a flash on Explorer. If I shut Firefox 2 down and restart it, it loads sites just fine, but gradually slows to a crawl again.
I also found that I had trouble downloading a bunch of programs from Adobe using Firefox 2 recently. I was finally upgrading to Macromedia Studio 8, and downloads of Dreamweaver, Flash, Fireworks, etc., kept choking and dying mid-stream on Firefox 2. When I switched over to Explorer 6, I downloaded all the applications in the suite with no problems.
Hm. I didn't have any such issues with Firefox 1.5.X. I don't see a huge hue and cry about this on the web, though there are a few complaints out there. Whatever it is, I hope it's rectified soon, 'cause I love Firefox!
Dang, it's happening again! I was looking for URLs to add to this post, and Firefox 2 began choking up again. It just doesn't load pages, or gets stuck halfway through.
Posted by Paul at November 14, 2006 07:57 PM