Firefox is a peice of ****

aardvark said:
just opened both these - works fine on my firefox :rolleyes:
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Maybe none of you have used Chrome to know any better? :p

I don't know. I used to be a massive Firefox evangelist, been using it since 2007. Which is why I'm struggling to move away from it.

But on my 3 older PC's (my rig, sisters and work) Firefox is just unusable. Slow, ponderous and laggy. Chrome renders the PC usable again.
 
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Not as bad as Chrome. If you split off a tab to another window, then close that tab AFTER your main window, you lose all your pinned tabs and all your session history.

Don't ever trust a browser to keep your session or tabs.
 
opethdisciple said:
Maybe none of you have used Chrome to know any better? :p

I don't know. I used to be a massive Firefox evangelist, been using it since 2007. Which is why I'm struggling to move away from it.

But on my 3 older PC's (my rig, sisters and work) Firefox is just unusable. Slow, ponderous and laggy. Chrome renders the PC usable again.
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I think it's pretty clear that you have something wrong with your Firefox setup, somehow.
 
Not sure if this has coincided with a recent update my Waterfox/Firefox installs are really struggling to access some sites. Sites that work fine in my other browsers...

For instance, atm I can't seem to get further that the home pages of either of my banks, Lloyds and Santander. I've asked before but is there anything in the way of a 'software reset' for either of these browsers because as much as I don't mind using Chrome, for me it just isn't Firefox :)
 
I've moved back to, Chrome after a 2 year fling with, Firefox. I would have moved back sooner but I couldn't be arsed with the setting of the tabs etc in, Chrome.

The difference between the 2 was immediate, Chrome is just better, can't be more honest then that. It's like, Firefox is 30fps and, Chrome is 60.
 
MichaelAwkward said:
I think it's pretty clear that you have something wrong with your Firefox setup, somehow.
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I don't think he uses adblockers :p. Just disabled it and those sites are infested with ads, which slowed the browser down a bit. Keeping them on loads everything quickly.

Don't get me wrong, I find the performance completely fine, it's just the stability part that pushes me away from Firefox. Once Twitch fully moves over to HTML5 then I will have no reason to keep Flash, and Flash is really pulling Firefox down. Alternatively, if Firefox moves away from NPAPI and to the newer more stable PPAPI (or another alternative) then I may be tempted to move back to Firefox once again.

The performance for the Android version however, is like night and day compared to Blink/Webkit based browsers, in a bad way. It's smooth most of the time but can feel clunky every now and then.
 
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It's not my profile or anything else. (Clean install of FF 39, new profile & no addons other than flash)

As a side note, I tried Firefox on my gaming machine (3570k @ 4.5Ghz) Firefox still feels really slow.

Chrome is just fine on my older Qx9650 machine.
 
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Anyone having issues with v40?

Seems to be really sluggish, especially over time. Currently using 1.1GB of RAM. Perhaps a memory leak.
 
RAM being used isn't necessarily a memory leak. I'm using 1.8GB of RAM with 4 youtube tabs open and this forum along with a few pinned tabs.
 
Currently have 127 tabs open and 366mb memory used and no issues? I have zero problems with Firefox. Using uBlock and Ghostery, Cookie Whitelist, Videodownload Helper. Win 7 Ultimate. :confused:

Rroff said:
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).
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Or install Session Manager addon and look in Sessions Folder for one of the backup.session or crashed session files and load it up?
 
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I have been on the beta channel for ages but have found for a while now FF will hang with a not responding problem for the plugin container within task manager. It is always Flash which has caused the issue.
Removing Flash and the issue does not occur but then again regardless of how problematic Flash can be it is still needed for some websites.

I have gone over to Chrome for now, it seems to do a better job of running across my desktop, tablets and phone anyway.
 
Firtefox 41 beta channel (official 64bit) seems great and stable. Will continue with it.
 
I've been playing around with Cyberfox as suggested by another member, and it's basically Firefox without the uneeded junk Mozilla has been adding as well as optimisations to your CPU. It seems to be running better than Firefox and updates around the same time as well. I've had no problems with it so far.

Sadly I'll be sticking with Chrome as my main browser as my current Android browser doesn't sync with Firefox Sync.
 
Orcvader said:
The main issue I have with Firefox stability is Flash. Turn that off and Firefox is pretty much rock solid.
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if you're a fanatic like me you've got installed NoScript and AdBlock and Firefox has no issues with anything you let pass by.


AthlonXP1800 said:
Yeah Firefox is crap, cant handle lots of tabs.

Tried both IE and Chrome on mine can handle 50 tabs. :D
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IE is crap, at least up until the new one (Edge) the way it handles javascript is HORRENDOUS.

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 :mad:
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windows restore? wth man? you've got:
1) option in Firefox to OPEN the last session(that means it will basically open up all tabs that were open when you last closed Firefox)
2) surely it has History - restore last window/session

Vimes said:
I have been on the beta channel for ages but have found for a while now FF will hang with a not responding problem for the plugin container within task manager. It is always Flash which has caused the issue.
Removing Flash and the issue does not occur but then again regardless of how problematic Flash can be it is still needed for some websites.

I have gone over to Chrome for now, it seems to do a better job of running across my desktop, tablets and phone anyway.
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The big advantage Chrome has now is that it runs like a jewel across multiple desktops/phones if you are logged in. Thing is Firefox is doing the same thing with Sync.

I use both Chrome and Firefox and yes, for sites that use Flash i use mostly Chrome, otherwise Firefox still has a special place in my heart
 
chrome is a resource hog, on startup it uses up to 90% of an quad haswell CPU and ultra HD video uses much more CPU than firefox.

I use firefox until google get their **** together.
 
Now that I've been happily using Chrome over the last two months after been a Firefox user since 2006 I can say I'm happy again with my web browsing.

From this side of the fence it just seems like Firefox is always looking up to Chrome and implementing it's features. (This is undeniable) - Except Chrome is always ahead. Audio indicator, multi process no support for unsigned extensions to name just 3 of many.

And also the open source nature of the software I think actually works against it. They don't seem to be able to deal with the fundamental issues the browser has. Something I feel some open source software suffers from. A loss of direction if you will.

There are maybe one of two little things I wish Chrome had that Firefox has, but I've got round them. The stuff Chrome has that Firefox doesn't out weighs the stuff it doesn't have, plus performance is a lot better.

And also with Google being probably the biggest player on the web, it makes sense to use their browser.
 
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