It seems to me that all the hype that surrounded Firefox for the last couple of months is dying away now. Its quite ironic that there are so many security holes being discovered (Considering that was what drove firefox, although still much secure than IE). Worse yet, it seems with every update, they are putting more and more stuff into it (at least the back end) and its getting slow. I have to admit, the extension were what kept me going this far, but how slow the rendering engine has gotten lately is not bearable. So I have finally decided to fall back to my old trusty Mozilla browser. Yes, its the same thing (almost), but not quite, it just respond much faster and renders it nicely. Its not a issue with the plugins I have since I just did a fresh install of Fedora core 4 (same one my main machine runs) and I see very noticable differences between firefox and the mozilla browser (with no updates, as well as with the latest releases).

I will miss the extensions, but they are not a life and death situation, I can live with that. The advanced tabbed prefences seem to get mozilla all fixed up the way I need it. I was used to being able to open links in new tabs using the middle click, as well as closing the tab with a middle click. This drove me pretty insane for the first few minutes I was using mozilla since by default Mozilla browser (I think firefox as well) would not allow for tabs to be closed with a middle click, but now with this small middle click tab killer feature, I am back in my sane mode.

Every product has its high and low, and firefox seems to be hitting the low again. I am sure I am not the only one who feels this way. If the devs notice this and start doing something about it, hopefully improve the performance aspect for it I will without doubt switch back to firefox. Until then, farewell firefox, you treated me well.

edit: Ok, so it turns out I don’t need a plug in afterall to enable “close tab with middle click” feature, more memory free for more useful things. Changing the middlemouse.contentLoadURL from the about:config page will do the trick. I just found it while checking up on another bug regarding mozilla. I think this is only useful for those in Linux/Uinx enviornments since middle click usually does paste. Enjoy.