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I have finally made the switch. I got rid of Firefox 2 and also uninstalled the extremely useful MultiFirefox Mac application created by David. Firefox 3 uses much less memory and seems a lot more stable except for one bug that really bothers me and I have submitted reports a couple of times – but I guess the Firefox developers don’t really care about Mac users 
What is the bug you ask? After using FF3 for a while, when I right click on a link in an effort to open it in a new tab, it randomly selects one of the other context menu options (sometimes it selects mail this link and other times, it chooses to bookmark it or bookmark it on del.icio.us). I have had this issue from the first beta they released. After hitting ESC (escape) a couple of times, it usually stops or else I just restart the browser. Initially, I thought it had to do with the trackpad not recognizing my right click (double tap), but even when I use a regular mouse – I face the same issue. It’s not the end of the world and fewer crashes are more important than the minor annoyances of Firefox.
Another disclaimer – Firefox still crashes once a fortnight and I recently saw the following box allowing me to disable add-ons to launch firefox in safe mode. Very nice! I just wish they had options to individually disable JavaScript or Java or Flash since very often it is one of those plugins that causes the site to crash over and over in an endless loop. It would have also been great if they offered the option to pick which sites to open out of the last session. There are probably add-ons to do that, but I would prefer to see it built-in.
And one more thing… (in Steve Jobs style), I tried signing up for another Yahoo account yesterday for testing purposes and is that sign up process outdated or what? It asked me to enter an alternate email address and I entered my perfectly valid current Yahoo email address and it declined it saying that it was an invalid email. I then tried using my Gmail account with the + sign to see if Yahoo wanted to spam me with it but it wouldn’t let emails with a + sign in it. Talk about old school. The + operator in Gmail is such a lifesaver and helps me from having to create multiple accounts when I need to test applications. Catch up already Yahoo. However, I must add that after I created the account and went to edit my profile in that outdated and ugly screen, it allowed me to enter my valid yahoo email address. Come on Icahn, get Microsoft to buy Yahoo and let it go even further downhill.
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Came here in search of a problem for my Quicksilver-FF3 issue–not what I was looking for, but I thought I’d let you know about NoScript. It works with FF3 and blocks all flash, Java, etc on sites unless you tell it to allow it. Very handy indeed.
Thanks Corgi! I am aware of NoScript (although I last tried it over an year back) but it doesnt meet my needs since it is only in the recovery process that I would like to disable one or more elements. In fact, I dislike NoScript since it prevents sites from working properly and I am not fond of enabling JavaScript for the sites I trust. My usual problem is just a memory leak in one of these trusted sites and that’s why I would just like to disable it during recovery of sessions.