Firefox is fired

Thanks to Semicolon for alerting me to a page that explains some of the improvements in Firefox 3. Yeah, okay, improvements. I admit it.

But the fact was the font rendering of some sites was simply unacceptable. And this was the official release, for crying out loud - how bad was it for the beta testers? Anyway, I'm now back on Firefox 2 and here I shall stay until it's fixed.

All credit to Mozilla, the uninstall feature includes an option to tell them why you're uninstalling - and then it displays the reasons to date. Which, as of 21.40 on 22 June are:

• Performance (load delays, memory usage) 15393
• Hard to use/confusing (menus, display, etc.) 11969
• Missing features 11189
• Security 8358
• Some features didn't work 13792
• Printing 6094
• Plugin compatibility (Flash, Adobe Acrobat, Windows Media Player, etc.) 12377
• Some web pages wouldn't work 21951
• Just temporary, I'm planning to install Firefox again soon 14659
• Other 22943

So the most popular apart from "Other" appears to be "Some web pages wouldn't work". Kind of a basic requirement for most browsers, you'd have thought.