Firefox is a peice of ****

GodAtum · 12 Jul 2015 at 16:56

I used to like it but hate it now. it crashed on me for the 7th time this year. I have 30 tabs open and lost them. So had to go and do a Windows restore to get them back :mad:

Rroff · 12 Jul 2015 at 17:00

You can restore tabs without resorting to windows restore btw - bit beyond the scope of a post here but you can copy old sessionstore.bak files over the latest one in the user data folder for firefox. (Google sessionstore.bak and/or tab restore for more details).

Marzipanogram · 12 Jul 2015 at 17:07

I'm not surprised it keeps crashing if you've got that many tabs open.

Rroff · 12 Jul 2015 at 17:13

For years I ran it with ~25 tabs open (less these days) and never had any crashing issues until more recent versions.

OpenToSuggestions · 12 Jul 2015 at 17:14

GodAtum said:
I used to like it but hate it now. it crashed on me for the 7th time this year. I have 30 tabs open and lost them. So had to go and do a Windows restore to get them back

Internet explorer crashes on my multiple times per day.

I have no idea why I use it!

lsg1r · 12 Jul 2015 at 18:29

The only issues I seem to have with firefox is it 'freezing' with some sites poor javascript coding (I get the popup saying xyz.js is not responding) and google maps getting worse the more 'features' google adds (which just happen to work fine on chrome :rolleyes:

).

Everything else seems to work ok although I do wish firefox dev's would focus more on web features (up to date html5/css etc) and performance (it is a bit slower than ie/chrome) than adding in stuff like the new built in 'pocket' website viewer which already had own add in, even more so when the built in one didn't even work properly when released. :rolleyes:

Are you sure it's not down to plugins such as flash (they're still rubbish)

randal · 12 Jul 2015 at 18:35

Try 30 tabs on Chrome.

KIA · 13 Jul 2015 at 18:45

Marzipanogram said:
I'm not surprised it keeps crashing if you've got that many tabs open.

30 tabs shouldn't cause FF to crash.

Orcvader · 13 Jul 2015 at 19:22

The main issue I have with Firefox stability is Flash. Turn that off and Firefox is pretty much rock solid.

GodAtum · 13 Jul 2015 at 19:28

i think it is Flas. i will get rid of it and use it only in Chrome.

Mr-White · 13 Jul 2015 at 19:35

GodAtum said:
I used to like it but hate it now. it crashed on me for the 7th time this year. I have 30 tabs open and lost them. So had to go and do a Windows restore to get them back

Memories of the 2004 beta lol

MW

Explosivo · 13 Jul 2015 at 19:48

Instead of using 30 tabs i just have 30 different browsers open.

AthlonXP1800 · 16 Jul 2015 at 17:08

Yeah Firefox is crap, cant handle lots of tabs.

Tried both IE and Chrome on mine can handle 50 tabs.

bulldog147 · 17 Jul 2015 at 18:13

Firefox is crap now!

RIP firefox

Roadrunner_668 · 17 Jul 2015 at 18:14

I would say that any piece of softeware crashing 7 times in a year is pretty good going!!

Duke · 17 Jul 2015 at 19:55

I get maybe 1 crash a year on Firefox. Most likely a plugin or addon problem?

bledd · 18 Jul 2015 at 09:36

Backup your bookmarks, delete your Firefox profile.

Launch Firefox, restore bookmarks.

mrk · 19 Jul 2015 at 18:13

If you think Google Maps is slow then I dare you to try the new bing Maps, I double dare you!

Google Maps is smooth as butter for me btw

roadie · 21 Jul 2015 at 16:05

I've just switched back to Firefox from Chrome. Seems to work well for me.

Nanobot · 21 Jul 2015 at 16:45

Or better still, use Firefox Portable. Hardly have any problems and it's standalone from Windows so each version / upgrade is in its own folder... If a new version is problematic, I still have the previous version to hand!