Is Firefox no longer good?

[Spooner]

I'm thinking about making the full switch to Chrome, but I'm not sure

What's everyone's experience been with the latest versions of Firefox?

I find that it starts off OK, but as I use it more and more it slows down considerably, constantly throws me "not responding" messages, scripts fail on webpages causing a crash, lags significantly when I scroll the page, and even typing this message the text is coming out after a delay

i has a REAL hard time with Facebook and twitter for some reason causing crashes and "not responding" message all the time

what gives?

 

[PokerGuy]

I'm using firefox with no issues at all. Works great, no slowdowns etc. I love the plugins and such, and I like that all my information isn't automatically routed through google servers just because I use chrome.

 

[WaTaGuMp]

I still use it.

 

[Aikouka]

I find that Firefox goes to hell once it hits over 2GB of memory used, which isn't that hard to get if you have a bunch of tabs open for a long time since Firefox caches so much stuff. I almost always have to close (save tabs) and reopen at that point.

 

[Sonikku]

You'd think after a few years they'd fix the memory leak.

 

[TwiceOver]

Chrome syncs everything between all my devices, pretty handy feature.

 

[Jaskalas]

Some recent updates may have even fixed Flash video at 1080p for me. Youtube used to be a DOG on Firefox.

 

[MontyAC]

I have no problems with FF and it's my main browser.

 

[BlitzPuppet]

My Daily Browser:
https://8pecxstudios.com/?page_id=52

I tried to like Chrome but couldn't. Been using Firefox since 1.0. I remember when they added tabs .

 

[Kadarin]

I use FF as my main browser too, and have for years. It's nothing against Chrome, but I'm just more familiar with the controls. Not really a fan of Safari here.

 

[mmntech]

My Daily Browser:
https://8pecxstudios.com/?page_id=52

I tried to like Chrome but couldn't. Been using Firefox since 1.0. I remember when they added tabs .

There's also Waterfox, which is another 64-bit fork of Firefox. It's what I have on my desktop at home.

Chrome is fast I think mainly because it runs each tab as its own self contained process. I use it but I'm not too pleased with Google as of late.

 

[Printer Bandit]

Safari does the job.

 

[darkxshade]

I'm still pretty happy with my Netscape Navigator

 

[Codewiz]

I like that all my information isn't automatically routed through google servers just because I use chrome.

What are you talking about? That doesn't happen. Now if you leave the default search engine settings, when you type in the address bar it is doing ondemand searches via google.

But chrome doesn't use Google Servers to proxy your website requests and I don't know where you got that idea.

 

[Spooner]

I find that Firefox goes to hell once it hits over 2GB of memory used, which isn't that hard to get if you have a bunch of tabs open for a long time since Firefox caches so much stuff. I almost always have to close (save tabs) and reopen at that point.

this is what i think it happening to me, because when i reboot it flies for a little while then during use it ends up becoming horrifically slow

closing and re-opening is an easy fix for this?

 

[OlafSicky]

I'm still pretty happy with my Netscape Navigator

2X That is currently the best browser around. I wish more people started using it.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Safari does the job.

Ew. I'd take IE any day over that crap.

I forgot why I switched to Chrome but I haven't looked back since. I like syncing throughout all my devices. I use IE for the random pages that don't work right on Chrome.

 

[Krazy4Real]

IE 10 baby

j/k I use firefox and it's fine.

 

[BlitzPuppet]

There's also Waterfox, which is another 64-bit fork of Firefox. It's what I have on my desktop at home.

Chrome is fast I think mainly because it runs each tab as its own self contained process. I use it but I'm not too pleased with Google as of late.

Waterfox has not been updated since release 18 with no status from the Dev.

Cyberfox is constantly updated .

 

[PokerGuy]

What are you talking about? That doesn't happen. Now if you leave the default search engine settings, when you type in the address bar it is doing ondemand searches via google.

But chrome doesn't use Google Servers to proxy your website requests and I don't know where you got that idea.

I know it doesn't proxy the websites, but unless you turn the suggestions off etc, everything you type into the address bar is sent to google, linked to your google account and stored. You can turn it off, but I simply don't trust it.

 

[deanx0r]

Under OSX, Firefox seems to require more resources than Safari or Chrome. It is slower than both browsers. I am contemplating switching to Safari, but FF is like a bad habit that refuses to die.

Under Windows, FF would just crash/freeze whenever I resume back from sleep with several tabs open (7-15).

 

[MaxDepth]

Mosaic -- FTW!

 

[Printer Bandit]

Ew. I'd take IE any day over that crap.

I forgot why I switched to Chrome but I haven't looked back since. I like syncing throughout all my devices. I use IE for the random pages that don't work right on Chrome.

Safari on Mac is nice. Not sure how it is on Windows.

 

[Codewiz]

I know it doesn't proxy the websites, but unless you turn the suggestions off etc, everything you type into the address bar is sent to google, linked to your google account and stored. You can turn it off, but I simply don't trust it.

Only if you leave google as the default search engine.

And it is no different than if you use google as your search engine and go there directly.

The browser isn't at issue. I have chrome setup with duckduckgo as my search engine so when I type in my address bar, it searches at duckduckgo

 

[Veliko]

Why the angst about changing a web browser?