Firefox Failed
When Firefox upgraded to version 3, I was primarily running it off of a usb thumbdrive as one of the PortableApps suite. The very first thing I noticed, even before the Awesome Bar (or whatever they are calling it), was that my session was being broken every time I pulled the stick. I know that sounds a little odd to complain about, but before version 3 my session states were remembered whether I had removed the stick in the meantime or not.
It wasn’t till a bit later that I noticed that it was happening to me on my home system too. I would turn on the computer and head into my gmail account only to be stopped in shock because I had to enter not just my password, but my user name too. “Wait a minute” I would think, “I told gmail to remember me. I told Firefox to remember my password. What’s going on here?”
I’ve been grousing since then that I should give up on Firefox and just move over to Chrome. I still hate IE more than is reasonable, and I’m simply not capable of remembering all my passwords by myself. That’s why I got the thumbdrive with applications thing going in the first place.
And then last night, while I was typing in my daily podsuming list, Firefox had the brilliant notion to delete the session. So I was in my website, logged in, in the little new entry section, and when I hit “save draft” button… I was presented with the log-in screen.
Thankfully everything was saved by an automatic backup.
Oh wait, no, that’s not what happened. I lost the post and whatever ‘casts I had listened to are not going to be a part of my record now. I really do know better than to compose on the web. I do. But I’m done with FF3 now. Any installs that I have of FF2, I will keep. But when Firefox does the rest of the turning evil bit and forces an upgrade, I won’t be a user anymore.
And that is a shame.
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