https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Sync/Addon_Sync#Are_Add-on...
Yes, I'm aware add-ons fix that, I don't want an add-on for something that should exist as a part of Firefox.
I feel your pain, though. Download Statusbar[2] has been indispensable for my purposes. Will be curious to see if the new download manager will be worth switching back to the default.
[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:P.A./Panel-based_Download_Mana...
[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/download-stat...
Now? Completely crash free AFAIR.
I used http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile... as the basis of what to copy, though there are other such pages like http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recovering%20important%2... which might help.
In any case, I have no desire to return to my fanboy days of yore and so called browser wars. I am perfectly content that anyone may use whatever browser strikes their fancy, so long as these browsers and web developers alike continue to forge and adhere to standards. Gone are the days when you would use a browser because it literally rendered pages better or different from another browser. Choice now is determined by the User Experience and features offered by the browser, the way it should be.
I ended up buying a new laptop several months ago mostly due to how badly Firefox was running on my system at the time. I had a PBG4 and was using the TenFourFox build of Firefox for PPC; Firefox was consuming epic amounts of memory and had a really funky stop-the-world pause every minute or so by the end of the day, requiring daily restarts and other hassles. That laptop did everything else I needed it to do, but since enough of my work requires a web browser, I ended up buying a new system just so that I could switch to Chrome.
I've also seen similar behavior on Windows XP systems and other older hardware. I suspect that "Firefox works great" is true mostly for people running on relatively new systems, although I haven't so much as opened Firefox in the last 6 months, so I have no idea what their current software is like.
There are comments on every Firefox thread about problems people have had with it. Declaring "baloney" is as stupid as if I were to respond to the above comments about Chrome by saying, "Nonsense. Chrome works great for me, I never have a problem with it."
