Firefox 4.0 not Sufficiently Useful

I really like Firefox. It is so much better and faster than IE. Still, in the last year that I have upgraded Firefox versions, it has been getting slower. I did quickly research Firefox 4.0 problems before upgrading and still was unprepared for a bad version. I downgraded to 3.6.17 because I could not use my browser.

Yes, Firefox 4.0 is faster, but they did not tell you that if you leave your browser idle for 5 minutes it would lock up. I have the habit of leaving my computer for a couple of hours during the day, and upon return FF would be locked up tighter than a bank. While it does not crash it also does not respond. Even if you continue to browse Firefox 4.0 starts to slow down markedly so that after an hour it crawls. This is not sufficiently usable. I prefer slightly slower but overall more usable. For the first time I downgraded Firefox to the previous version.

Maybe it is time to acknowledge that the previous versions were pretty good and future versions will be worse. I don’t know. Overall Firefox 3.6.17 is markedly faster than 4.0. The downgrade process went without issue.

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