Firefox 2.0, why do you hate me?
I was really glad when Firefox came out. It was a blessing to finally be free from the grips of IE for day-to-day browsing tasks.
I was even more glad when a nice set of web development debugging tools came out for it.
Firefox helped make my transition to from Windows XP to OS X more smooth. I didn’t have to switch browsers or use Safari. Firefox ran on OS X.
But why must Firefox lock up on me at least twice daily while I’m browsing the web? It’s not even a full on crash. Firefox just simply stops responding and refuses to load pages until I force quit it.
I understand browsers have a lot of moving parts that all must work in unison, but damn, you’d think someone could get the browser right.
IE has its numerous faults and security flaws. Safari has shit for debugging tools, and I refuse to run Opera since older versions of it couldn’t even float an iFrame over another div.
Please, someone fix this.

You may want to reconsider Opera:
http://www.FirefoxMyths.com
You may want to reconsider Opera:
http://www.FirefoxMyths.com
ooh the colors!. firefox 2.0 works perfect on linux. never a freeze or crash. the problem is proably OSx’s crap kernel and threading
I was liking Opera 9.1 until I tried to post a comment on this blog…nothing happened, and I couldn’t find any errors.
The last time I tried it was a couple of years ago when it was still ad-supported.
Looks like it handles CSS and JS well on all of my apps. Rendering speed seems nice as well.
How do you debug JS in Opera? I tried opening the “Java Console” window but nothing happened here on OS X.