{"id":331,"date":"2008-09-29T01:46:12","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T06:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2008\/note-to-firefox-nerds-firefox-sucks-on-mac\/"},"modified":"2008-09-30T01:03:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T06:03:34","slug":"note-to-firefox-nerds-firefox-sucks-on-mac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2008\/note-to-firefox-nerds-firefox-sucks-on-mac\/","title":{"rendered":"Note to Firefox Nerds: Firefox Sucks on Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/firefox-logo.jpg' alt='firefox-logo' style=\"float: right; margin:  10px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big fan of the Firefox browser; it&#8217;s fast, nimble and has a great plug-in architecture, that has made Firefox into a true tool for web designers. That said, Firefox has one big failing &#8211; it sucks on the Mac.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, for reasons beyond the comprehension of this humble nerd, Firefox crashes like crazy on the typically ultra stable Mac OSX. <\/p>\n<p>&#8230; It&#8217;s so bad in fact, that sometimes it feels like I&#8217;m using crash-crazy Mac OS 9!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is the source of the Firefox problem?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t done any thorough testing, but it seems to me that the constant crashing has to do with the Firefox Javascript engine &#8211; it only seems to crash when I&#8217;m on a page that uses Javascript. <\/p>\n<p>So if any of your Firefox developers happen to come across this post, please take a closer look at this glaring problem. Believe me, I am not the only one who has seen this.<\/p>\n<p>PS: The Flash player also doesn&#8217;t work properly in Firefox on Mac.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<\/p>\n<p>www.killersites.com<br \/>\nwww.killerphp.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I&#8217;m a big fan of the Firefox browser; it&#8217;s fast, nimble and has a great plug-in architecture, that has made Firefox into a true tool for web designers. That said, Firefox has one big failing &#8211; it sucks on the Mac. Yes, for reasons beyond the comprehension of this humble nerd, Firefox crashes like &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,49],"tags":[52,51],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}