Fed up with Firefox!

axer

Hi all,

I am finally completely fed up with firefox. It is not even close to being as good as it is supposed to be. It leaking memory on my computer like a sieve and has a tendancy to just crash and disappear for no apparent reason that I can see. Also its not standards compliant. So basically I want to change browsers the only problem being that I am used to firefox now but I have a determination to change.

Is opera my only realistic alternative?

Mike...

I have IE.Firefox.safari and opera

Never use IE
Always use FF
Kinda use Safari
Getting to like Opera

Thats my browser usage

Orion

Opera is the one for you then. I still use FF but Opera is pretty good. Used to use it a lot.

dulpit

I always use firefox, purely cos of the add-ons... Plus IE is kinda crappy with displaying pics and stuff... (for me at least, it was all liney and stuff)

Khannie

Don't forget the seamonkey. It's a different (more stable) codebase to firefox but still mozilla.org.

the_syco

Whens the last time you ran something like Ad-Aware? If the net is slow, first thing people tend to blame is the Browser, rather than the crap on their machine

r3nu4l

I have to say that if it's crashing all the time there must be some other problem. I use FF on 2 different machines, one fairly new (at work) the other a 5 year old laptop running WinXP. Both machines are regulary checked for adware/malware and therefore run efficiently and I've no issues at all with Firefox.

I also prefer Firefox because I use a lot of extention scripts and add-ons and even with those it loads and runs quickly.

I do use Safari for Windows on occassion but mostly to test it for bugs.

Mr E

I reinstalled Windows over the weekend because it was getting pretty sluggish, and Firefox was regularly crashing on me.

I installed Firefox 2.0.0.9, and the night after installing it, it started crashing again.
I have very little else installed on the PC, and I've disabled all extensions and plugins.
Very frustrating.

Is there an earlier version that isn't such a hog?

Might try Portable Firefox and see if that improves things.

Malice

I use Opera myself and highly recommend it. For speed, stability and handy features like properly resizing pages when zooming in, automatic page validation through one shortcut, widgets and more that I can't think of right now it can't be beaten.
I also use Firefox but generally just for the incredibly useful Firebug tool. It does start to get very sluggish and hog a lot of memory after a while so I find I have to re-start it regularly.

ActorSeeksJob

K-Meleon is good. Weird that FF is causing you problems though.

GBX

Ive encountered problems with FF lately too. It keeps crashing. Ive scanend the pc for all types of stuff and nothing has come up. ive reinstalled it and it still crashes on me. im back using IE for the time being. Might try that seamonkey

Placebo

Only think i hate about fire fox is the automated update, it never seems to work, it updates then asks to restart firefox and then updates again and goes in a loop from there.

Besides that its great, kinda like using a pc without windows.
so therefore

IE/etc = LINUX
FF = Windows

the tabs ! the easy tabs ! i feel secure with FF.

to the bat cave nerds *nananana*

3greenrizla's

GBX wrote: »

Ive encountered problems with FF lately too. It keeps crashing. Ive scanend the pc for all types of stuff and nothing has come up. ive reinstalled it and it still crashes on me. im back using IE for the time being. Might try that seamonkey

same as...

I had a thread a while ago about this
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055163551

alot of the time FF crashes when I click a link (e.g. if I go on Boards & then go to a thread on the main page/go to a subsection)

Back to using IE myself, after spending 2 solid days trying to fix FF (which I prefer) might try seamonkey too (its too late to start messing around like that though I have work in the mornin)

joseph brand

Having problems with FF on a new PC :mad:

This happened before, Opera saved me.

Mozilla wanted to install updates, needed to restart PC to install. When updates installed, Mozilla broke. Its always been sluggish compared to Netscape or Opera as far as I can see.

Firefox = Pooh!!

Sherifu

IE8 beta1 for me \o/

FF3 is supposed to be better. Used it a few times, seems quicker than FF2.

Royale with Cheese

Firefox 1 worked fine on my old laptop, when I upgraded to 2 it screwed the system up. I didn't realise it cos it was a fairly slow/poor system, but after I switched back to IE, it sped up a lot.

Have since upgraded laptop and am using Firefox 2 with no problems.