In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

yes thats the fault for you thinking the address bar is for searching.

Maybe, but I think it makes sense to have one text box that does both. I thought that what Mozilla wanted, but it never happened
also firefox still searches using Google even if changed.

In reply to a post by DavidFinbarr:

I'd rather have the two separate on my PC.

But on my netbook I could see the benefit of only having one

Maybe i been using Iron for too long and got used to it.

In reply to a post by white43:

All this "Firefox crashes....uses tons of memory.....can't do this or that".

TBH - I don't agree. I've been using FF since 3.5 and allowed all the upgrades. It doesn't crash. The only times it will crash is if your installation of Windows in borked. I know this having worked in IT Support for over 5 years and seen FF installed on unstable Windows and stable Windows.

I'm running it on Win7 64 Bit and I get no memory leaks or crashes. I was previously running it on a 4 yr old PC with Win7 32 bit. Again, no issues.

It is still a cleverer browser than IE. IE, quite frankly annoys the hell out of me. Chrome isn't compatible with enough things I do. (It doesn't work with Citrix gateways very well - if you know what that is). It is more configuarable - and allows you more things that you want to do. Not what Microshaft wants you to do.

I like having a removable separate search bar. I hate sharing it in Chrome. Horses for courses though. As for a quick release schedule. Rapid Application Development - allows issues to be dealt with much faster, than IE, which moves like a slow-dinosaur.

It's the choice browser for Linux users. Or rather, the most commonly installed browser there. I don't think this browser is being 'killed' at all.

I was using firefox since it was called Phoenix, so that is a while back, before then i use Netscape. I have seen how Firefox have gone downhill, more so since after version 2 which was fine. Version was okish, but after 3.5 it really went downhill and got worse in 4 not better.


I think Mozilla have lost me as a user to be honest unless they speed it up, stop having compatibility problems with the extensions every time they update the browser and stop it using so much memory,

In reply to a post by DavidFinbarr:

I'd rather have the two separate on my PC.

But on my netbook I could see the benefit of only having one

indeed, I often have something typed in the search box, ready for a search and it stays there but would be lost if it was also the adress bar.

The only times it will crash is if your installation of Windows in borked.

stupid comment, that lost you credibility and I didnt read rest of your post.

there is no way you can 100% say ff has no bugs that could cause a crash.

FF9 before Christmas. What's the point!

Streuth!

Must be trying to catch up with IE numerically?

FF 226.0 is out.

What's in a name? It's actually 6.5-ish, stop worrying about the numbering system.

The only practical importance, except for corporate use, is whether or not your own set of plug-ins remains compatible, and by that measure FF 7 and 8 have been the most trouble-free browser updates ever for me.