Alternative to Firefox?

braz2kuk · 14 Jul 2007 at 22:09

Hi,

I have recently been getting more ****** off with firefox, is there an alternative that it as good or better?

Thanks

Clarkey · 14 Jul 2007 at 22:10

why annoyed with FF?

braz2kuk · 14 Jul 2007 at 22:13

Just crashes a lot and uses a lot of memory when running multiple tabs

daven1986 · 14 Jul 2007 at 22:26

ie7 with mouse gestures. but that is annoying me as it is pretty poo. im back on FF now

opera is a bit poo too, have to wait for safari 3.

mattyrigby00 · 14 Jul 2007 at 22:27

look up about:Config edits for firefox, some of them help with memory usage i think

MarcLister · 14 Jul 2007 at 22:32

Opera is not crap. Its very good. Its faster to load up than Firefox, for me at least.

A lot of Firefox features that you needed extensions for are there in Opera as standard.

Just give Opera a go and see what you think.

braz2kuk · 14 Jul 2007 at 22:34

Cheers guys

Clarkey · 14 Jul 2007 at 22:45

yeah no denying FF has high mem usage, but who cares unless you have a really poor PC, not like it causes any slowdown.
Crashing is probably down to a bad combination of extensions or an unstable PC.

Opera UI is a mess, just like IE7.

Six6siX · 14 Jul 2007 at 22:47

Clarkey said:
Opera UI is a mess, just like IE7.

=/

What's messy about it? :confused:

Clarkey · 14 Jul 2007 at 22:54

hmm i stand corrected, only used it for a very minimal time for dev purposes. Seems ok actually, but the tab bar above the address bar is bizarre.

What can this do as standard that firefox needs an extension for then?

Six6siX · 14 Jul 2007 at 22:59

Clarkey said:
hmm i stand corrected, only used it for a very minimal time for dev purposes. Seems ok actually, but the tab bar above the address bar is bizarre.

What can this do as standard that firefox needs an extension for then?

Well, the address bar/tab panel thing is easily sorted. I have mine as it should be!

As for features without extensions, the only one that comes to mind is the speed dial page (I'm not really a big FF user so I'm not that into available extensions)

As already mentioned, I also find Opera faster than both FF and IE6/7.

Greenlizard0 · 14 Jul 2007 at 23:01

Opera *** TBH..

Clarkey · 14 Jul 2007 at 23:02

speed seems no different to me, but i do have pages littered with ugly ads.

tolien · 14 Jul 2007 at 23:19

If you can be bothered, try running through this - most Fx crashes aren't the result of the app itself, but extensions (for example, FasterFox causes more problems than it solves) or plugins (Flash, WMP et al) - making sure you're running the latest versions can help.

Does Opera have a match for adblock plus yet?

Six6siX · 14 Jul 2007 at 23:27

tolien said:
If you can be bothered, try running through this - most Fx crashes aren't the result of the app itself, but extensions (for example, FasterFox causes more problems than it solves) or plugins (Flash, WMP et al) - making sure you're running the latest versions can help.

Does Opera have a match for adblock plus yet?

Nothing really automated, but I find the "right click > block content..." method works fine - at least for frequently visited sites.

You could manually add known add servers (I remember reading that there was an up to date compiled list that could be imported but I can't remember for sure).

MarcLister · 15 Jul 2007 at 00:03

Well Opera blocks ads for me. But any frames they were in say. Lifehacker.com is quite annoying for example. What I did was to run Firefox, use the DOM inspector, then write up the frames and elements I didn't want into a txt file using Notepad. Saved it at Lifehacker.css for example and then went to Lifehacker.com.

Press F12 to get to menu, go to edit site prefs. Then under Display tab, change the style sheet from the default to the Lifehacker.css. Press OK and its all sorted.

Granted its a bit more manual than AdBlock but I'm pretty much there in terms of blocking stuff on the sites I use regularly.

-Nick- · 15 Jul 2007 at 01:42

OPERA it's the best like, simple and you have your speed dials etc.