Intermittent Rant

As of late, I’ve been hatin’ on Firefox. Don’t get me wrong…I’m no lover of IE, but Firefox, that great scion of the tech community, has gotten me so damn riled up with frustration, I must vent. The other day, I had Firefox fired up. It was just sitting there on the Google page. Nothing special. I was going to open a page, but I ended up running some queries, so like I said, it was just sitting there doing nothing. Or so I thought.

I was running a query and was amazed at how long it was taking. I mean it was just running and running and running. It got to the point where I was talking to the DBA. He had no idea what was going on. I was running sp_who2 and that was hanging. I was sure it was the database, but the DBA told me everything looked fine on his end. So then I fired up the ol’ Task Manager, and lo, Firefox was sucking up 99% of my CPU cycles. Motherfucker!!!

Well, it came as no surprise. You see, I’ve been collecting my complaints of Firefox for some time. Let me start by saying when Mozilla 1.0 came out, it crashed on me in 30 FUCKIN’ MINUTES!!! Fine. So Firefox comes out and I thought surely things have gotten better. WhenI fired it up for the first time, it took like half an hour to see the damn window. Well, it always takes half an hour to open Firefox. It takes seconds for IE to open.

Okay, whatever, you say. I’ve been using Firefox at home and work regularly, and I can tell you I’ve come to expect it to freeze on me on a daily basis. At least once a day — if not many — Firefox freezes on me and I sit there like a FUCKIN’ DICKWAD GIMP staring at the goddamn hourglass until I finally heave a sigh and kill the damn process.

And don’t get me started on PDF’s. I’m no lover of PDF documents, but the Internet is littered with them and it’s only a matter of time before I click on a link that turns out to be a link to a PDF, and alas, there I am, sitting like a RETARDED CHIMP while Firefox puts the moves on Acrobat…and sucks up all my CPU cycles in the process.

I’m a developer. I hate having to sit there and helplessly stare at my computer. I have a decent computer both at home and at work. But man, it’s gotten so bad, that I’ve thought about switching to Opera. OPERA!!! I know everyone loves to hate IE, but damnit, it opens up quickly, doesn’t get confused by Javascript, doesn’t freeze half the time. Hell, Firefox takes me back to the bad old days of Netscape 1.0, which also crashed on a daily basis. Has it really gotten any better than that???

But that’s okay…I’ll just hope that all of the current problems get fixed in Firefox 2.0…when it comes out sometime in 2012.