Why You Shouldn't Use Firefox

I use 2 internet browsers. FIREFOX and SAFARI. Never had a problem with both of them. I have a Mac and therefore use Safari at work and my pc at home has FireFox. I can't complain.
 
I've been using Firefox and its ancestors Mozilla and Netscape since 1998 and have never regretted it. Just for laughs I've tried using IE every so often as far back as version 4 (on Win95!) and they all stink. I've tried Google Chrome and it's fast, but it feels like it's a browser for children. Nothing is intuitive. It's like they dumbed it down for the masses; I hate the tabs and the lack of detail in the Options.

Oh, and I've never picked up a virus when using Firefox/Mozilla/Netscape. IE? Too many times to count.
 
Quite simply if you don't have a anti-virus/firewall powerful enough to stop anything and you trust your browser to do it all for you, you deserve to get stung, I think Firefox does amazingly compared to any other browser, and it steps up the game with all its other add-ons and support for pretty much anything you can throw at it.
 
Firefox is not safe
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So you found a way to break Firefox. Big wow. It will probably be patched next release. Certainly doesn't mean it's not "safe". Besides, what are the chances of being caught in a MITM attack in the real world? Maybe on an unsecured wireless network... not enough to keep me from using FF.

Firefox is not standards-compliant
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That is annoying. Opera has the same problem. But I remember when IE was the browser with major standards-compliancy issues! Hopefully this will be addressed in upcoming FF releases.

Firefox is not fast
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Not true, although I'll allow there are a few things you have to tweak (http://tatumweb.com/blog/2007/01/05/making-firefox-faster/). Around v2.0 FF started to get a little "clunky" out of the box. But I just installed FF on an old 266MHz box, and after tweaking it, it runs beautifully - it does take a little longer to initialize than IE6 (but I suspect IE8 would take longer too, that is, if it supported Win2K... :rolleyes:)

You make some valid points about some of Firefox's shortcomings. However, I was really put-off by your post-title "Why You Shouldn't Use Firefox" - maybe something like "Why I don't like Firefox" would have sat better with me :P.

At any rate, I use all sorts of different browsers. But it seems like I always come back to Firefox as my default - on both Windows and Linux. And with the new Personas add-on, I am hooked! I'm sure it will be mimicked by other browsers soon, but afaik it's the only browser that has that level customization right now. I am a "Firefox Fanboi". It's good enough for me. I'm not "anti-Microsoft," but after so many traumatizing experiences with past versions of IE, I find it very hard to back to using it (for anything except Microsoft Updates). However, I will say that it looks like MS has finally released a stable quality browser. But I'll keep my distance. :)
 
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