HEY ADOBE!!!! ANY PLANS ON MAKING BRIDGE CS3 OPERATIONAL!!!!!

Question

This is by far the biggest piece of useless software I have ever used!!! I will not even be using it and when I go back to it, I have a message saying it has crashed!! Refresh rates are awful, I think you should refund the price of bridge to everyone or at least buy us a program that WORKS like maybe Extensis Portfolio or ACDSee Pro. I've used alpha and beta programs that weren't this bad!!!! TRY LISTENING TO YOUR CUSTOMERS!!!!

Answer 1

I struggle from time to time with Bridge also but I've found that if I'm patient with it, it tends to be more stable.
What I mean is, Bridge seems to need to have a minute or two to sort out its complicated brain upon loading. If I push it too fast (trying to open folders which, when they don't open, I click on another one), then the program locks up and I have to force close it and open again.
Now I sit and wait a minute or so until the folder directory spills out in the left panel, then I go to work.
In XP it tends to be stable, but a bit slower (XP only uses 3GB of my 8GB memory). In 64 bit Vista, it's more stable, interestingly, because I have the full 8 GB available. Although reportedly Photoshop can only address 3GB, it still is noticeably faster. Bridge in particular.
It will still crash in Vista if I push it. But otherwise, it's very stable. It's just a matter of getting to know it's sluggish personality.
Plus I really like Bridge over Lightroom because I can select 20 camera raw files (CR2) which opens the Raw dialogue in Photoshop. I process them all, and they save in about 90 seconds, then on to the next batch.
I worked a bit with Lightroom but it seemed (even though I do have dual monitors) that I could only really work on one image at a time, so that means repeat steps for each image, which are done in batch mode in Photoshop's raw dialogue.
What I mean is, I can do batch changes in Lightroom, but in PS, the thumbnails are there in the RAW dialogue so I can individually adjust without a lot of trouble, then save the entire batch. In LR, correct me if I'm wrong please, I haven't worked with it much, I haven't found a way to work that quickly.
Do any of you use Lightroom for processing large batches of images at once, in a more efficient way than I've discovered? I'd prefer to use it, but Bridge, when it's stable, works so well for the way I workflow.
good luck
jim