Newer Is Not Always Better
Did you upgrade to Firefox 3 yesterday? I did, and I quickly reverted back. Why? Firefox 3 was just way too buggy for my tastes right now. To me it really didn’t seem like it was ready to be released. In fact Mozilla missed the 10am PST release because it wasn’t ready to be released yet!
When I first installed I had major problems. I had to go through multiple reboots and reinstalls before I could even get Firefox to load. Once I finally got it loading I had no internet connection. After 30 minutes of working with it I finally got my internet back only to have many other problems. The load times were tremendously slow…way too slow for my tastes. Of course none of my add-ons worked as is usual with any new release, so I was dealing with pop-ups and ads for things like Chicago travel while attempting to get just one or two websites to load.
You know newer is not always better. I prefer the older versions of tons of software, and I think I’ll be sticking with Firefox 2 for now. If you prefer older versions like I do maybe you should check out OldVersion.com. It’s my one stop when I need to download a ton of software for a new computer or I need to grab an older version of a certain program.
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June 19th, 2008
Have any of your readers proclaimed I LOVE YOU today? LOL! I was a dumb one, I bought into the “lets set a download record” and downloaded FF3 and OMFG it SUCKS! It was constantly crashing on me and I just didn’t like it one bit! But thanks to YOU I was able to find out where to get the older version! THANK YOU!!!!!!! Big mushy **MUAHS** to ya lady!
June 19th, 2008
LOL! You’re welcome! I bought into it, too, and then smacked myself.
I don’t even know why I did it b/c I’d already talked to plenty of people who said the beta version was horrible!
Mostly I think I was being stubborn and had to see for myself!
I absolutely love oldversion.com. I only wish they’d add Wordpress to their list. I hate having to Google every time I need the old version, and I stupidly forgot to save it in my “things I’ll need later” file.