Firefox: Going to hell in a handbasket?

By -
I alternate between Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. They all have advantages and disadvantages. But one particular Firefox advantage is that it is the only browser in which is Zotero runs, and Zotero is a great add-on for anyone who publishes in academic journals.

Which is why I am extremely distressed that Firefox seems currently to be "biting the big one": it crashes on my Windows machine at work every hour or so, and now seems to be crashing on my Macs at home frequently as well.

Has anyone else noticed this? Is Firefox suddenly having extreme quality-control problems?

Comments

  1. Current8:56 AM

    It works fine for me on Windows and Linux, so I can't really offer you any advice.

    I know you've probably done this already, but note when it crashes and try searching about that situation online.

    Makes sure your plugins aren't out-of-date. The Microsoft Silverlight plugin installer causes Firefox to crash for me, though the plugin itself doesn't.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Anonymous11:43 AM

    Firefox is doing well for me - I'm actually having problems with Chrome lagging instead.

    ReplyDelete
  3. Bob Murphy11:52 AM

    I used to use Firefox exclusively, but then it became unbearable and so I switched to Chrome. It would just freeze up on me (I use a MacBook).

    ReplyDelete
  4. Anonymous7:52 PM

    Zotero works as a standalone with connectors with Chrome and Safari
    http://www.zotero.org/download/
    so that's no reason to use Firefox. I've never had any trouble with Firefox and I appreciate its greater flexibility and the fact that it has much better development tools than any other browser.

    ReplyDelete
  5. Josiah Neeley8:31 PM

    I haven't had any problems.

    ReplyDelete
  6. Scott8:43 AM

    Firefox would crash on me whenever I went to bookmarks (on an Android phone). I use Opera now.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Libertarians, My Libertarians!

By -
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas --  unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
Read more

"Pre-Galilean" Foolishness

By -
 I am currently reading The Master and His Emissary , which appears to be an excellent book. ("Appears" because I don't know the neuroscience literature well enough to say for sure, yet.) But then on page 186 I find: "Asking cognition, however, to give a perspective on the relationship between cognition and affect is like asking astronomer in the pre-Galilean geocentric world, whether, in his opinion, the sun moves round the earth of the earth around the sun. To ask a question alone would be enough to label one as mad." OK, this is garbage. First of all, it should be pre-Copernican, not pre-Galilean. But much worse is that people have seriously been considering heliocentrism for many centuries before Copernicus. Aristarchus had proposed a heliocentric model in the 4th-century BC. It had generally been considered wrong, but not "mad." (And wrong for scientific reasons: Why, for instance, did we not observe stellar parallax?) And when Copernicus propose...
Read more