Yesterday newly installed Firefox 3 crashed on me at least 10 times, which, I believe, is a new world record (ha-ha). It could be because I am visiting a lot of Microsoft-centric sites that often run Silverlight. It looks like Silverlight 1.0 does not work in FF3 at all and Silverlight 2.0 kills it. Or vice-versa. Lovely... At the end, I had to drop to IE 6 (tough without tabs, but works fine). So, where does it put Silverlight and who is to blame? Specially considering the fact that problem with compatibility was known long ago and existed since early betas?

It doesn’t matter, everybody is a looser. Firefox – because it is crashes. Microsoft – because it’s cross platform/cross browser technology did not cross anything yet (very limited on Linux, still not working in Opera despite promises etc.). Average Jo – because “internet is broken”.

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6/23/2008 7:33:42 AM #

Cristiano

I had to drop to IE 6

... why not IE 7 Wink ?

Cristiano |

6/23/2008 2:36:55 PM #

rtur.net

why not IE 7 Wink ?
This is computer at work, we have policies about IE versions. I think most enterprises do. For whatever twisted reasons, IE 7 is not allowed. FF - nobody cares.

rtur.net |

6/26/2008 7:53:50 AM #

Cristiano

In my office I am the system manager.
Fortunately I who decide which browser to install Wink

Cristiano |

6/27/2008 4:36:29 PM #

MattB

Yes, this is quite a mess. I had a little bit of hope for Silverlight for a while there but so far I'm glad I didn;t jump in and develop anything with it yet. It definitely "breaks the Internet" and I don't need that!

MattB |

7/10/2008 2:04:08 AM #

Huey

I run FF3 and have not had any problem with Silverlight on it at all. I've seen plenty of samples since I'm currently learning it... Not sure why you're having these problems. I'd do a windows update and see what that does... good luck.

Huey |

7/10/2008 2:39:38 AM #

rtur.net

I had issues on 3 different boxes. For example, I still can't see this movie in FF3:

http://rtur.net/blog/post/2008/06/07/Publishing-to-BlogEngine-from-Word-2007.aspx

Some sites that did not work before are start working now, not sure why. May be, updates to my computer fixed them, may be they were fixed on the server side. I know for sure this site did not work in FF3 and I did nothing to fix it, but works now: http://rtur.net/photo/gallery.html

This is good that problems going away, I just wish they were addressed beforehand. Better late then never, I guess Smile

rtur.net |

12/4/2008 4:32:25 PM #

Ahmad

I couldn't agree more, I even took the liberty of disabling all of my major plugins after in FF safe mode didn't work out either.
Sadly it appears with every update of FF I found, the only serious problem for me is deciding whether or not to invest in MS's RIA technology, cause to me it seems as if we're heading for a new RIA war with MS's Silverlight, Adobe's Flex, and Java's JavaFX.

Lovely post, its as if your in my head, yet more expressive.

Ahmad |

3/10/2009 4:47:23 AM #

avg

If firefox did not have make you happy, I suggest you switch to Internet explorer. I use IE a lots

avg |

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