On 4/23/05, Collins Richey crichey@gmail.com wrote:

Just curious.

I've noticed with the 1.0.3 release (and almost every recent dot release) Firefox becomes unstable until you preserve your bookmarks and blow away the .mozilla/firefox directory.

Has anyone heard whether the mozilla developers ever intend to fix this behavior?

You're likely to have better luck with a post to one of the forums in:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php

I haven't kept up with the forums and such since 1.0. I know that this was frequently a problem with particular extensions - are you running any?

The beauty of extensions is that they provide functionality without the maintainer having to write/review everything. The drawback is that you get little/no QA and QA will more frequently catch problems with upgrades that might not get caught by the old "release and pray" system that some extension developers seem to follow.

Greg