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Is Firefox 1.0 Less Stable than Firefox PR1.0?
An anonymous reader wonders: "I had Firefox 1.0PR running smoothly on three different machines and it hardly ever crashed. After upgrading to 1.0, I seem to have at least one annoying crash a day. On one of the machines, using the 'self update' feature caused Firefox to crash in middle of the upgrade and left it in a completely unusable state. Eventually, I had to uninstall it and resort to using IE to download the full installer, again. Is it just me, or are other heavy Firefox users noticing this sort of behavior?"
is it possible that firefox is targetted by malicious programs - so that firefox will behave less stable. And those programs were exactly tuned to work with firefox 1.0?
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I prefer spreading FUD about MSIE itself. However, I see both the humor and the validity of the grandparent's argument. MS Windows sucks. I have to use it for various purposes, so I keep a laptop with it on. There's too much eye candy, not enough substance, and getting to the commands I need is rather difficult. In GNU/Linux and BSD, I can just open a terminal. In OS X, I can either do that or actually use the graphical interface tools, which are set out sanely and are easy to get to. In Windows, I can't find half of the settings I'm looking for, and the console is worthless. Give me a *ix any day. Back to the topic at hand, I actually haven't had any problems with annoying crashes or stalls. Heck, on my Windows box, I don't even see the /. bug. I still can't sell my mom on Firefox, but all but one other person has taken quite well to it.
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No shit. Thats the flash ads. Uninstall libswf and install the adblock extension. And if you want to keep a browser open for several weeks at a time, why are you running -unstable? What the fuck did you expect?
It means exactly the same thing it means in every other context. How fucking stupid are you?
Debian always has at least three releases in active maintenance: "stable", "testing" and "unstable".
stable
The "stable" distribution contains the latest officially released distribution of Debian.
This is the production release of Debian, the one which we primarily recommend using.
unstable
The "unstable" distribution is where active development of Debian occurs. Generally, this distribution is run by developers and those who like to live on the edge.
http://www.debian.org/releases
It crashes at least once a session, if not twice. And it's done this since at least 0.7. Prior to that it crashed even more-frequently. I didn't notice any difference between PR and the final release of 1.0 to be honest -- they've just all been crashy even when nothing else is running on my system.
So no, you're not alone. However, the Firefox zealotry has gotten to the point where even suggesting that it's not the single most-stable thing in the universe is considered heresy. In actuality all they need to do is actually work for once on making the dumb thing more-stable instead of adding some dumb new feature nobody will use anyways, like the built-in RSS tracking.
If they can actually make Firefox stable, they might then have a legit claim as being the #1 browser, but right now the random crashes during normal usage and the hangs during updates. Both Opera and IE don't crash nearly as often as Firefox.
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