Vista and Firefox

**abostonboy** · 03-03-2008, 01:59 PM

Is anyone else that uses Vista getting lots of crashes in Firefox?

**Squirt** · 03-03-2008, 02:21 PM

Lots of buggy things in Vista when your default browser is Firefox.

When clicking on a link in ICQ I get an error message of browser not found and Windows Explorer opens.

Some sites crash with Vista and Firefox that don't crash on my Windows XP machine and Firefox.

**abostonboy** · 03-03-2008, 02:47 PM

Originally Posted by Squirt

When clicking on a link in ICQ I get an error message of browser not found and Windows Explorer opens.

That part I can show you how to fix. But, you are right, some sites just crash FF for not apparent reason that I can tell.

thx
lloyd

**RiotRacer** · 03-03-2008, 03:19 PM

There is a really great add on you can get for FireFox called IE Tab. When you are on a website that isn't working properly or openly states it is IE exclusive (NetFlix's "Watch it Now" for example), you can switch to an IE tab, with-in FireFox and it works!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419

You can also add sites to an IE tab list, so that be default they are opened in the IE tab. I don't know if that will help your Vista problem though. For that I would consider, if possible, a downgrade to XP.

chelo - ACW · 03-04-2008, 04:22 PM

hello,

yes, it's true FF has problems in Vista. Surely MS wanted this to happen, I find Firefox always ahead of IE in browser capability, customization, etc. I guess we'll have to wait for Firefox's next version to see if these bugs are fixed or just stick to XP which I think is the best choice.