Legal Commentary

A Farewell to Firefox?

By Jonathan H. Adler

I?ve been a devoted Firefox user for many years, but it may be a time for a change.  I had always found Firefox to provide a relatively stable and bug-free browser.  No longer.  With the latest updates (v3.6.8), my Firefox crashes and freezes-up all the time.  This may have something to do with the way I use it ? I like to keep lots of tabs open ? but this is not new.  I?ve used browsers this way ever since I discovered tabs.  My impression is the new bugginess has something to do with plug-incontainer.exe, but this was supposed to make Firefox crash less often, not grind it to a halt.

I?m not eager to change browsers ? old habits die hard ? but unless Firefox creates a fix soon, it will count me among its former users.  The only question will be which browser to use instead.  Explorer? Chrome? Safari?  Is there a quick fix for Firefox?  Or is one of the other browsers that much better?

Full post as published by The Volokh Conspiracy on August 31, 2010 (boomark / email).