Firefox 3 A Huge Turd

Indy - 8/28/2008 at 06:04

Ok I broke down and accepted the "update" to Firefox 3. What a massive piece of crap that thing is. It has the ugliest browser history I've ever seen. And I can't find a way to revert back to the more classic Firefox style. I had it installed for a whole 10 minutes and I dumped it for Firefox 2. If you've debated upgrading your browser... don't.

I want a browser that works and is clean and easy to use. I don't want that disaster of a layout that is FF 3. WTF were they thinking with that design?

DanG - 8/28/2008 at 08:15

I put FF3 on my notebook the day after it was released.
still usin it - waay faster and more stable than Internet Exploder

Skillz - 8/28/2008 at 08:16

The only thing I don't like with FF3 is that it refuses to shut down sometimes, you have to force it.

As for the layout, it looks almost the same to me just a little rounded on the edges.

ghoster - 8/28/2008 at 13:12

Works fine for me, but then I am always happy when something on my computer works the way it is supposed to.

Indy - 8/28/2008 at 14:13

How do you change the browser history? I absolutely hated the site titles in the list. I just want the urls.

Skillz - 8/28/2008 at 15:25

oh yea, I forgot it does that now. That took a couple days to get used to. I am pretty sure there is a way to stop it, as I recall running into the option to turn it off but I left it on.

I'll check later, bout to head to work atm.

ghoster - 8/29/2008 at 07:40

Go to the tool menu at the top of the browser window, highlight the privacy tab, and there is the history control panel. You can turn it off or delete it.

Indy - 8/29/2008 at 13:51

Here is a link to a Firefox add-on that displays the URLs in the history more old school style.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6227

Indy - 8/29/2008 at 14:15

Here is another add-on. This one hides urls you haven't visited since you last clicked clear history. Honestly this browser is absolute trash. The fact that I have to do all this crap just to allow a clear browser history is a disgrace. What did they do? Hire Microsoft people? I have more crap to fix like it putting every freggin url I hit in the browser history. If I visit 10 pages on one site all 10 pages will show up.

Indy - 8/29/2008 at 14:22

Screw this. I went back to FF 2. No way in hell will I use crap like FF 3. That shit goes in the bin with Windows Vista. Mozilla should be embarrassed to put something like this out.

thedood - 8/30/2008 at 10:59

yeah I agree. I had FF3 installed for 15 minutes. I tried to like it but it's really a cheap ripoff of IE. I'm using FF2 now. No problems with this one.