Firefox 2.0 coming Tuesday

Well, they say that Tuesday is the day that Firefox 2.0 is to be born.

Nice. Except it's still freezing on my Mac.

Well, maybe. The Firefox web site says this kind of problem is most likely from a faulty extension. They suggest starting up in Safe Mode. For the Mac, that's

cd /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/
./firefox-bin -safe-mode

Quoting from the TroubleShooting section of the Release Notes:

Poorly designed or incompatible Extensions can cause problems with your browser, including make it crash, slow down page display, etc. If you encounter strange problems relating to parts of the browser no longer working, the browser not starting, windows with strange or distorted appearance, degraded performance, etc, you may be suffering from Extension or Theme trouble. Restart the browser in Safe Mode.

Well, really, I'm not suffering all that much. As Firefox obligingly reopens every tab I had open before Force Quitting, at most I'd call this a minor inconvenience. But still..

So I tried Safe Mode. And of course, it works, which doesn't prove a thing because sometimes it goes days without freezing. Actually, it does prove something: I want my extensions back. Stupid as it may sound, I'd rather run with extensions and the occasional freeze than without.

Oh well. Sooner or later my extensions will become compatible, right? Sure they will..

Here's a reality check for you: at this web site, Firefox users now account for more than 40% of visits - and only lag IE by 2.4%. Safari is almost 6% and Opera hits almost 3%. Firefox usage is definitely continuing to grow.

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Tue Oct 31 00:34:01 2006:   anonymous


I had the same problem. Just try removing the google toolbar add-on if you have it installed. This fixed the freezing problem for me.



Tue Oct 31 13:04:45 2006:   TonyLawrence


Was that the only extension you had loaded?



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