On the other hand, I can leave Opera or Konqueror (KDE3.5 version) running for literally weeks at a time and still be able to browse the web with them on a daily basis without these random crashes. Even the KDE4.2 and higher versions of Konqueror will run for several days without a crash as long as I don\’t visit too many sites with Flash on them.

The only problem with all these other browsers is that not a single one of them is as extensible / customizable as Firefox. I\’ve been able to customize Firefox into pretty much the perfect web development environment thanks to the magic of Firefox addons and to be honest, I pretty much couldn\’t even LOOK at the web these days without the AdBlock Plus extension due to the fact that on entirely too many sites the advertisements literally overwhelm the content. I completely understand wanting to make a little money off one\’s website, but when there is two to three times more advertisements than there is content, what\’s the point?

I do use Adblock Plus almost all the time, and Flashblock so I only see Flash stuff that I want to. Perhaps it\’s the slimeware that one gets from advertisers (privacy invasion techniques, attempts at malware insertion, etc.) that causes the crashes? Flash, Shockwave, pdf etc. can crash Firefox, but maybe it\’s not Firefox\’s fault, but that of the plugin.

Plugin plug – get Tabkit, Adblock-plus and Flashblock. You won\’t look back. Wish they shipped as default!

I literally have FF 3.0 crash up to five times per day. Hm, maybe it *is* my extensions, so I\’m gonna uninstall ones I don\’t really use. But still, and I\’m not joking, 5 times per day is not unusual. For me. But like they say, YMMV.

And anyway, if it\’s the extensions\’ fault, that really limits the awesomeness of FF, doesn\’t it? I mean, the extension ecosystem is what makes FF so appealing, really. A vanilla Opera 9 or 10 is WAY better than a vanilla FF 3. And anyone who says it isn\’t hasn\’t seriously used Opera for any length of time.

Cheers,
~Thomas

1) Changing context menus — you already said it: they are CONTEXT menus. Of course they change according to CONTEXT. If you want a quicker way to go back, get fire-gestures.

2) Better bookmarks — the reason there are so many bookmark-related addons isn\’t because FF bookmarks are bad: it\’s because so many people want so many different features from bookmarks. Catering to them all would be madness. Personally, I think that FF bookmarks do exactly what they should. If you want inter-computer synching or other fancies, get an extension for it. That\’s what extensions are for.

3) Personalising hotkeys: if the hotkeys extension doesn\’t work any more, well, no great loss. In Thunderbird, there might be a need for a hotkey modifier, but honestly, why not just learn the standard FF ones, which are used in so many other apps? Like alt-w to close a tab — it\’s quite a common thing now hey. In fact, for apps which don\’t close a tab with alt-w, I tend to change *them*

4) Crashes? What crashes?! You must have some super-dodgy extensions there mate. I run FF for weeks without crashes. The only times FF is restarted on my machines is when (a) the windows host has to reboot (once a week or so), or (b) the silly flash wrapper to get 32bit flash to work under 64bit Linux makes flash elements disappear. No crashes and the restarts are certainly not the fault of the Mozilla team.

Been there since 3.0:
- Bookmarks
- Rt-Click a bookmark
- Properties
- type something into keyword
- OK
- go to Address bar and type that keyword.

Not a keyboard shortcut, but still a shortcut.

And BTW, this is the worst site I have ever tried to register with… Do you REALLY need all that info about me (cause about 1/3 thru, I just started checking the first thing in the drop-downs… And it\’s like a 7-step process!!

Not a pleasant experience…

And to answer some of the folks who asked about the stability of firefox, my experience is, it is as stable as notepad in windows! I use it almost 14 hours a day, and 3.5 has never, never crashed on me. I have quite a few web development addons installed and often have flash videos going, more than 10 tabs opened, (I am lazy to bookmark some of them, so I just leave them open) and it has not crashed.

I use fedora 11 on a thinkpad t61. The kernel even whiffed once, and not firefox, that is how stable it is (for me).

Although I like the speed dial feature of Opera, where you can assign up to 9 shortcuts (ctrl+1 to 9) for your favorite sites

One thing that\’d be awesome isn\’t a change so much to the code, as to the PROCESS that goes on after someone submits a crash report.

If I go to the effort to spend a few minutes describing what I was doing, and send in a Crash Report, why can\’t someone go to the effort to get BACK to me, to let me know what it was they\’ve learned, if/when they learn something based on what I\’ve sent in?

Example: Consider the case where some \”dodgy\” (why was it made available on FF\’s extension site if it\’s dodgy?) plugin is determined to be part of why the crash happened. It would take ONE minute for a developer to toss off an email to me telling me they\’ve learned that some particular plugin is part of the problem. I could then eliminate that plugin from the equation, and we could BOTH learn something from the resulting change to my setup. (i.e. do the crashes stop altogether, are they still a problem, etc.)

Bug triage, and responsible handling through resolution, seems to be the bane of open source; FF\’s not alone here.