Welcome to yet another frikkin error
Friday, January 20th, 2006Although it is my default browser, I have some real issues with Firefox. It crashes lots [on both machines I have tried it on], and what really pisses me off is that when it does so, the first thing I see is the dialog below, which has the gall to use the word Welcome in the title bar, and avoids words like error and problem .
It’s bullshit marketting-speak when I least want to hear it!
A few seconds later the standard Windows error dialog pops up over the top, but at least it doesn’t say Congratulations! Windows has detected an actionable issue! It even uses the word sorry, which is exactly how it should be!
BTW The reason I added perspective to this dialog is to avoid spooking Windows users when they view this entry.
January 20th, 2006 at 7:07 pm
>> avoid spooking Windows users
shouldn’t that be ‘IE users’ ;)
January 21st, 2006 at 1:29 am
I used to get those from time to time; however, the last three times I installed firefox, I picked the “advanced” setup, and unchecked the “quality feedback agent.” Now when it crashes, it crashes. (Which is much less annoying to me. Interesting UI effect, that.)
You’re right, the language sux*. They seem to be having some trouble figuring out who their audience is.
Btw, what are you doing to make it crash? I don’t get crashes terribly often, but I usually don’t see a connection with what I am doing and the crash.**
-r.
*it’s corporate speak vile enough not to be worth the correct spelling.
**yes, I see the irony of someone who disabled the reporting dialogue wondering why it crashed.
January 22nd, 2006 at 1:05 am
I get probably about 3 or 4 crashes a week, and generally while doing tabbed browsing (4 or more pages open) so it’s hard to know the exact trigger.
I think I will follow your lead and avoid installing the Quality Feedback Agent next time around, until they replace it with something less smarmy and intrusive…
February 19th, 2006 at 4:18 am
Have you tried IE7 beta? DL avail from MS site.
February 19th, 2006 at 11:58 am
Not yet, I’ll probably wait to hear more about it before I do, but I am suspecting I will be an IE user again sometime in the future. The only reason I abandoned IE in the first place was its lack of feature updates and tabbed browsing, so if the new version shows any sort of commitment to staying up-to-date I think I’ll probably switch back.