Is Firefox 1.0 Less Stable than Firefox PR1.0?

An anonymous reader wonders: "I had Firefox 1.0PR running smoothly on three different machines and it hardly ever crashed. After upgrading to 1.0, I seem to have at least one annoying crash a day. On one of the machines, using the 'self update' feature caused Firefox to crash in middle of the upgrade and left it in a completely unusable state. Eventually, I had to uninstall it and resort to using IE to download the full installer, again. Is it just me, or are other heavy Firefox users noticing this sort of behavior?"

cookies?

[x3ro]

No bugs found here. But I was sad to see the 'Cookies are delicious delicacies' line disappear from Prefs.

No - it's you

[Linker3000]

Welcome to Slashdot, now being used as an alternative for official software support sites and usenet newsgroups.

Re:cookies?

[Anonymous Coward]

Do not despair! There is an extension [mozilla.org] to fix this serious problem. Soon your cookies will be delicious once more.

other heavy Firefox users

[Timesprout]

What makes the way people with alternative body images use firfox different from the way the rest of us use it? Or are you tring to say I'm fat because I have 5 firefox installs?

Re:Good here

[rking]

Mine seemed to be working but now it's showing an article about a single anonymous user's broswer problems on the front page of Slashdot. That can't be right. Hopefully Mozilla will have a patch available soon.

Re:Basic Human Nature

[MC Negro]

Seeking valid tech support from Slashdot is like going to an Adam Sandler film for some deep, subtle wit.

Anyone else have their battery die?

[duckpoopy]

I left the lights on in my car the other day and then my car wouldn't start. Could these two events be related? Did anyone else ever have this happen?

Re:Basic Human Nature

[Anonymous Coward]

Complaining is more fun than actually solving problems.

So THAT explains why Slashdot is such a popular place!
*runs*

Re:/. is not tech support

[minus_273]

you know, part of the reason people post things like that here is becasue of the mature intelligent discussion that takes place on slashdot. If you ever went to a specalized or moderated newsgroup and posted a similar question you would never get help. Instead all you would get is angry 13 yearolds in their mother's basement or wrong answers. It is the fact that a specialized newsgroup full of knowledgable folks, developers and regualr users is no use that people post on slashdot for help.
I expect intelligent and thought provoking replies on this page....

I wouldn't know...

[Anonymous Coward]

I use a mature, stable browser [microsoft.com] that hasn't crashed since I installed it.

Couldn't resist

Re:Cheesey Creezey!!

[Anonymous Coward]

lost? not at all. they're right where they've always been, buried in hot grits under the statue of natalie portman.

Re:zerg

[thammoud]

Would have been juicier if the story read:

I had IE 1.0PR running smoothly on three different machines and it hardly ever crashed. After upgrading to 1.0, I seem to have at least one annoying crash a day. On one of the machines, using the 'self update' feature caused IE to crash in middle of the upgrade and left it in a completely unusable state. Eventually, I had to uninstall it and resort to using FireFox to download the full installer, again. Is it just me, or are other heavy IE users noticing this sort of behavior?"

Re:Cheesey Creezey!!

[mrpuffypants]

I believe that your post implies that we ever had standards around here.

Please reevaluate your post and adjust accordingly.

kthx.

Try Fox News

[Anonymous Coward]

If CNN isn't working for you, try the Fox News [foxnews.com] Web site. Not only will you not have to put up with the crashes, but you will get news that is fair and balanced, instead of propaganda that's been filtered through an army of liberal reporters and producers. Honestly, I've introduced at least 8 people to Fox News since the election and they're hooked. I think you would be too if you gave it a try. :)

Re:Basic Human Nature

[Mad_Rain]

Seeking valid tech support from Slashdot is like going to an Adam Sandler film for some deep, subtle wit.

-------- "lol i had sex w/ ur mom" - George W. Bush

...said the man with the "yer mom" joke for a sig.

Re:Cheesey Creezey!!

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

Supposing they're not, is there any interest in the community to possibly fork Slashcode and start a new Slash-based website with the same intent but better editors?

Like kuro5hin?

had to do what?

[mat catastrophe]

"I had to uninstall it and resort to using IE to download the full installer, again."

What, you don't know how to ftp from the prompt?

Re:Probs before PR

[khrtt]

Your worldview is worthy of admiration - being the local system-level dude, blaming problems on the OS is very self-concious of you:-). However, if an application triggers an OS bug, it's the user's problem in the first place.

You see, being an application developer, you can't simply blame the bugs off and hope that the users would want to use your crashing app. Being an OS developer, however, you can safely ignore many OS bugs, and hope that the app developers will find a workaround, and your OS will keep shipping.

The OS developers only really need to worry when an OS bug is so bad that there are no workarounds!

Rhetorical question

[mrchaotica]

Great post! But is it a pun or a grammatical error?

Sheesh

[ScrewMaster]

All you people get real. Firefox 1.0 on Windows XP SP2 is perfectly sta