Firefox/Iceweasel now a PITA/POS

[C M Reinehr]

On Thu 11 March 2010 07:36:37 am David A. Bandel wrote:
> Folks,
>
> What web browsers is everyone using?  I ask this because
> Firefox/Iceweasel 3.x has become such a major POS I'm looking at
> ripping it out.
>
> Situations:
> Home:  several systems (OK 5 computers, one per) with 4 having /home
> NFS mounted.  Finally had to create a /var/home/$USER directory and
> move then link from the primary home to stop getting the "Firefox is
> already running ... close FF or reboot" nonsense.  Still running into
> the occasional screams of "I don't have Internet" (meaning FF won't
> open, often not even giving the FF is running dialog, just flat not
> running which usually means cleaning out /tmp).
>
> School:  here all systems are dumb terminals running off the server.
> All is well for the older students that have their own logins, but the
> Kinder through 2d grade that use the same guest account (although
> guest is pointed to /var/home/guest which is on a separate RAMdisk
> filesystem in the dumb terminals) get the "FF is running ... " crap
> for all but the first guest.
>
> This is the _ONLY_ program giving me migranes and I just need FF to go
> away (and take my migranes with it).
>
> Suggestions?
>
> TIA,
>
> David A. Bandel

Hmmm...

Running Iceweasel/Firefox 3.06. A single desktop PC but I just was able to 
open three seperate windows to three different websites without a single 
error message.

I've been using IW/FF for so many years I'll probably never change, but were I 
to change Opera would be on the top of my list.

Cheers!

cmr

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