The Gong Show

With heavy disappointment and lots of reservations, I have rolled back to Firefox 1.5.0.7, the last stable release prior to Firefox 2. I still stand by my original review about the new FF 2 feature set, but I have to add the following update.

FF 2 crashed on me about once every two hours on average. It usually happened while I was scrolling, but not always, so I’m not sure if the bug is associated with scrolling or not. It obliterated a number of half-filled forms and almost-finished blog posts.

I really miss both the “inline spellcheck” and “recently closed tabs” features. Bummer. Anyone know of a spell check extension for FF 1.5? I learned about an undo closed tab extension, which is helpful.

Anyone experiencing consistent crashing in FF 2? Got any solutions? A little bird told me it was because I also installed the IE 7 beta, but I uninstalled both FF 2 and IE 7 to start fresh, and then reinstalled FF 2, and it still consistently crashed, so I don’t think the problem is related to IE 7.

(“Computer Bug” by Hil on Flickr)

Update: Google Toolbar has a pretty good spellchecker, so I’m done with Firefox 2 until they release an update.