On 12/11/2013 3:36 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Just Wondering wrote:


I'm using Firefox and Thunderbird as my default internet apps. I've
used them for years, and have never (well, almost never, and not for a
long time) experienced crashes and hangups.

You must have been one of the one in one hundred thousabndth lucky users
then, and good for you if you were. Most users have experineced the recent
spate of Firefox issues. Just look at any google search results on firefox,

I am another of the "one hundred thousabndth".

My experience with Firefox and Thunderbird is the same. I started using
Firefox and Thunderbird as a replacement for Netscape over 10 years ago.
I have never had a serious problem with updating, or using either of
the programs. I am not an occasional user but use them several hours
per day.

The people who appear on the newsgroups and forums are a small minority
of the Mozilla users. Many are like the person in a recent Mozilla
newsgroup that was complaining about problems with FF & TB where he had
between 77 and 100 addons installed. I did not know there were that
many that were truly different addons available. I have less that a half
dozen in each Firefox and Thunderbird.

In some of the post with problems, FF & TB get blamed when the root
cause of the problem is somewhere else and probably with non standard
code of a URL.

Unless you have gigabits of messages, several dozen different accounts,
77 or more addons installed in FF & TB, and never compact TB's
databases, I doubt if you will ever have serious problems with Firefox
or Thunderbird.