Firefox Too Crashy? Unable to print from Firefox?

Are you one of those people who is tired of the constant crashing of Firefox?  You love the great rendering engine, and the fact that it actually supports the Internet, but have issues with it taking up too much memory and crashing.

Did you know that you can install some of your same Firefox Addons on the Flock browser?  Flock is based upon Firefox and uses Mozilla's rendering engine; the major difference is that Flock is tuned more toward social media whereas Firefox is tuned toward development.

Now, note that you will still need to manage your memory.  After all, having 20 tabs open is the same as having 20 windows open, and eats up about the same amount of memory - so if you are crashing on Firefox with more tabs than your huge resolution could fit, therein may lie your problem!

Nevertheless, Flock is certainly rising in my eyes!  Not only can I post to my multiple blogs with the click of a single button as well as to Twitter and other places, I've found that it simply has not crashed on me to date.  Oh, and I can actually print with it!  The security restrictions of Firefox were giving me difficulty; for unknown reasons, as soon as I installed Firefox 3.0, I was completely unable to print anything (which was a bad thing).

Exploring other browsers is a capital thing as a designer.  Sticking with simply one browser is, well, sin.  Why?  Because then we have a one-sided view of the internet.  Plus, we aren't expanding ourselves by doing the same thing over and over again!  Remember, the definition of insanity is to perform the same action multiple times and expecting a different result every time!

Don't just rely on Firefox to view your Internet!  There is support for seemingly all browsers for PCs; even Apple knocked their heads together and put together Safari for Windows, which, in my opinion, was a great thing, given that it allows developers and designers on Windows to see the Internet from another set of eyes.  And Opera has a free download now - so check that out, too!  I highly recommend it for casual browsing.

And while you are at it, refer your clients to other browsers as well!  It is a wonderful Internet out there - and it is sin to have the Internet rely completely on Firefox and Internet Explorer!