Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Goodbye Firefox, Google, Xmarks, Linux...

First Xmarks break, don't work and suck. Trying Firefox sync is a disaster, pairing devices is a nightmare, and repeatedly, a device with smaller bookmark set rewrites the data on server, leading to bookmars loss. Trying some recovery with Xmarks, now reportedly working again, only hangs, crashes firefox. Finally I restore bookmarks locally manually and move on to Google Chrome. It's sync was at first slow and bookmarks not appear when I rebooted from linux to window. Linux sucks as well, BTW, of course. Escpecialy the wireless. As well as my HP laptop. Two-finger scroll works in Ubuntu only in Xfce, not in Gnome3. But back to the topic, although Chrome had some problems with features and login as well, and I did not see the sync working at first, it was only some glitch (maybe my wireless in linux:), later on other machines it works great! Happy again! But OMG, what is the century, really 21st?? Firefox is a fat beast, I removing it from all my desktop launchers, really. Now Google sucks as well, of course, e.g. by forwarding from Picasa to Google+ when I really do NOT want to. Google guys, why you always think that you know better than me what I really want?? Google doc just suck, too. After I could not access a document few months ago, I subscribed to some forum to get advice, had to get and recreate the doc, but ever since, google developpers bombard me every other day with a request to share that silly document to debug. I unsubscribed, shared once, but then gave up, and trying to write them all does not help, those idiots still bother me with the share request crap. No word of excuse. I tried to be polite at first. Then I was not anymore. Very bad customer support by google. No way I'll use your Drive ever. And the G+ is as entertaining as a grave. Email notifications never worked for me. Boy, I'd pay for browser/bookmark/cloud service, only if it ever worked!! Goodbye Google (although Chrome looks fine now:), Goodbye Firefox, Goodbye Linux... But what is left? Mac? With the silly keyboard w/o home/end/pgd/pgu keys?? With the philosphy you just have to follow and love ever after? My next try is Chrome and Dropbox. And maybe Android. Hm, so falling into Google the Big Brother again...

1 comment:

J said...

Firefox sucks big time now, this morning all of the addon disappear on my PC#3.

I reset firefox sync on PC1 to replace all PCs. Within a few minutes, PC1 lost all its addon then bookmarks. PC2 tried to uninstall all the addon, I saved it by using "undo".

I try resetting PC1, but xmarks kills Firefox (crash all the time). I started with Chrome last week, Chrome Sync works much much better and smoother.