In my experience, most firefox problems are usually plugin/addon related, not problems with the core browser itself.
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In my experience, most firefox problems are usually plugin/addon related, not problems with the core browser itself.
Agreed, eventhough I only use a select handful of plugins on my desktop iMac, I find Firefox crashes on there very often. However on my laptop I only use around 3 and its completely stable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fraz
Saying that, I was only sticking around with Firefox because of the Weave extension to keep all my browsers in sync from my laptop to desktop and with bootcamp. But now that Chrome has sync I can finally jump ship.
Not a big fan of Opera, every time I try it out it's been cool but just not as intuitive to use. Don't like the whole widgets element of it either.
Chrome all the way!
Opera link let's you sync stuff as well - built in. Yeah I don't like/get the widgets thing either - can't say I found any browser significantly different in the intuitive sense as they differ very little in the basic sense.
I have Firefox without any addons aswell as IE. And they both Crash at random points while browsing.
It's really annoying and never seems to get fixed no matter how many updates either has. Considering another browser but it seems ridiculous that i have 2 neither of which work :confused:
Just checked memory usage - it's eating about 167mb at the moment, with 15 tabs open, which is the minimum because they're set as my home pages. I can't remember the last time I had a proper crash that wasn't caused by me being a tard.
its fine, im even using minefield and its fine.
Chrome has stole FF former love from me. Hell, I prefer using IE8 than FF now.
firefox just as troublesome on my macbook, uses alot of Ram, crashes, freezes and is very clunky feeling, have used it for years... but may just need to get used to chrome.
I too have jumped ship! Firefox just seems too sluggish and heavy in comparison to Chrome and even IE8, and this was nothing to do with the addons.
Chrome just feels faster and smoother, Firefox handled bookmarks better but its only a little niggle. Chrome FTW.
I have dumped firefox as well.
i didnt useany addons and it still crashed alot.
currently use opera and sometimes chromium daily builds.
When FF has gone so many addons on it, lots of bugs has profilated and worsen even the security issue of the browser. Too bad for the developers good thing we have chrome for a great alternative.
I am using firefox...tried Opera before and it is very slow in retrieving response
The last FireFox update for me has made my browser unstable.
I was beginning to loose faith in FF a little while back as it was crashing quite often but since the last couple of updates it's been solid as anything for me, yes it uses a fair chunk of memory.... I've got two tabs open and apparently it's still using just under 130mb which sounds like a lot and it would have been six years ago for a Socket A system with 512mb of RAM but the average website has changed a lot in six years, as has the average desktop PC.
The only issue I have had with FF (usually runs as long as the PC is on, 10-15 tabs) is that it won't log in to Twitter. Chrome will. Not that I use Twitter for anything except another avenue to publicise my charity stuff :s
Firefox logs in to Twitter automatically for me, well I say that, it has on the few occasions that I've actually wanted to Tweet anything :-/