Who knows, maybe someone else will start a search engine. Google came around at a time when Yahoo and Excite dominated, but Google made a product easier to use. I remember my first time using Google... I was at Yahoo to search for something when someone said "Why don't you try google, check it out". I was hooked.
It appears that the browser isn't really crashing so much as just being slow about processing huge amounts of data. The problem, however, is that as long as the link is in the history file it will be processed every time that Firefox starts up. While a veteran computer geek will simply delete the offending link from the history (or in my case, text edit history.dat and shorten it), the average casual user will probably have no idea how to fix this and assume that Firefox is bugged and gone. What's worse, an un-install will leave the profile for the next install, so a re-install will appear to fail.
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It appears that the browser isn't really crashing so much as just being slow about processing huge amounts of data. The problem, however, is that as long as the link is in the history file it will be processed every time that Firefox starts up. While a veteran computer geek will simply delete the offending link from the history (or in my case, text edit history.dat and shorten it), the average casual user will probably have no idea how to fix this and assume that Firefox is bugged and gone. What's worse, an un-install will leave the profile for the next install, so a re-install will appear to fail.