Mozilla Firefox

Criticisms

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Firefox has sometimes attracted criticism for lacking features found in some other browsers. Many users observe that the developers have not implemented frequently requested features (The developers state in response that they intend Firefox as fairly minimal browser in order to reduce "bloatware" and bugs, while retaining a high degree of extensibility.) Most of these features and many others exist as installable Firefox extensions, but not all users wish to install extensions for the features they want, preferring to have all the features they desire available within the official software package.

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Some note that Firefox takes longer to launch than other browsers such as Internet Explorer or Opera. The non-platform-native XUL implementation of the user interface may cause this perceived delay. Other Gecko-based browsers such as K-Meleon which use platform-native user interface implementations generally run faster than Firefox. IE also launches faster than Firefox as it is executed on Windows startup. Another common criticism involves Firefox using much more memory than other browsers.

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Users switching from Internet Explorer sometimes find that certain websites do not render as expected in Firefox. Almost always this turns out not a Firefox-specific problem but one of the respective website which uses code that does not comply with the standards (mostly W3C ones), code specific to Internet Explorer, or code utilizing ActiveX applets or VBScript.

Related Topics:
ActiveX - VBScript

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