So yesterday I pointed you to the Firefox 1.0.1 beta release. Today the final version of 1.0.1 was released, but as Marc over at the Office Weblog notes, the Firefox team made an extremely bad decision not to make it abundantly clear that installing this version of Firefox over your existing version will cause Firefox to crash every time you try to type an address into the address bar.

Yes, you read that right: Installing this update over your previous version breaks Firefox.

The Firefox team must have really been feeling the pressure to release quickly to let something like this out the door in this condition. What a mess. I’ve reverted to my previous version - and I’m lucky I was able to, since I backed up my entire Firefox directory before installing the beta update. I’ve been burned by Firefox updates in the past and am now always extremely careful.

But for me, installing from scratch is something I’d rather not have to do, since I install a myriad of extensions, arguably one of the best things that Firefox offers. Firefox team, please don’t make me do a clean install. Clean up this mess, your mess, soon please.

On a (not so) completely unrelated note, has anyone tried the latest version 8 beta of Opera lately? Talk about fast…