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Man, I hate when things don’t go right.

If you’re a regular reader, you’ll remember when I wrote about my excitement that Firefox 3 was coming. Then you later read where I said I’d downloaded the program and was testing it, and there were some good things and some bad things, but the jury was still out.

The jury has come to a decision, and it’s not good. The Firefox 3 experiment is over, done, finished. I’ve decided that, for now, it’s just not worth the trouble and the things I lost. So, I’ve spent about 10 minutes getting rid of it, then getting rid of the latest update, and starting from scratch again. Well, maybe not all the way, as I didn’t get rid of my bookmarks or anything else, but you know what I mean.

What was the main thing? There actually was a main thing this time around, and it was the Google Toolbar. Seems it was incompatible with the new version, and trying to run Google Desktop was almost impossible also. I probably rely on that more than anything else, so that was a really big deal to me.

Then there were the smaller things. For instance, TwitterFox for Firefox 3 just wasn’t going to work. Actually, it worked for 2 days, and that was that; irritating as sin. I hadn’t realized how dependent I’d gotten on it, but I have. Another add-on I really like is colorful tabs, as I tend to have a bunch of tabs open at once, and the colors help separate them so you know where they are. That may seem odd, but it’s the truth. And there were a bunch of smaller add-ons and some of the themes I’d downloaded before that I liked that just wouldn’t work in Firefox 3 either; heck, my few Greasemonkey scripts wouldn’t work either, though all my userstyles did work.

And finally, it didn’t save anything on my resources, which is had promised to do. Yes, it was a little bit faster, and I really noticed it with Facebook, but heck, I’m on cable; that little bit of slowness on Facebook isn’t worth all the other things I’ve had to give up by switching over.

So, I’m back to my original version, 2.0, though I’ve now run the update back to 2.0.0.15 for security purposes, and my Google Toolbar is sitting there smiling at me. Sometimes we have to learn those lessons, and this is the first time Firefox has failed me. Maybe one day all will be right with the world once again; but not now, unfortunately.

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