Is firefox doomed?
Bit dramatic but as much as I love the browser it has given me a few headaches recently.
—-> A convoluted shaggy dog story
Couple of days ago I was trying to add a picture to a post using the ‘add an image’ popup in wordpress.
Each time I pressed the button firefox crashed.
After a bit of investigation on the interweb I found out this has something to do with ‘gears’ – had to disable it to fix the problem –>
-o->
gears disable = Tools – Add Ons – disable.
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After I did this wordpress worked again but the buttons and history went pear shaped.
Back and home buttons stopped working and the address bar didn’t update as I browsed.
This gave me an excuse so I downloaded Google Chrome and by god it’s cool.
Loading times of website seem to get faster – and it worked well with wordpress – that said it will take some getting use to…
-o->Update<-o-
As I wrote this late last night I decided to save as a draft and wait til morning to finish.
After disabling ‘gears’ in firefox and restarting pc everthing seems fine now. WordPress works and the buttons and address bar work perfectly.
I like firefox a whole lot and enjoy it’s simplicity – but chrome is cool and will be getting used over the next few weeks.
Buh Bye