Goodbye Firefox!

Hamish

Hamish

Hamish

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Firefox used to be great, I've been using it for about 3 years, however now its slow and buggy. I just installed IE7 and its like firefox, but less sucky, i like :)
 
i have got the infamous "copy/paste" bug in FF, doing my head in, will only copy/paste sometimes :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

i may give IE7 a try
 
I dont see what the big fuss was about Firefox, the only two things I liked about it were better security and tabbed browsing.

Last year or so Firefox has gone unstable for me, and had a couple of really annoying bugs

IE7 is just as good as I want, im not intrested in bloatware plugins, but sadley a lot of people wont like IE7 purley because Microsoft made it
 
The main reason I use Firefox over I.E. is that 99.9% of the browser exploites/spyware are for I.E, as 90% of people use it.

Also I like the extensions like adblock, not availible in I.E - that alone stops me from using it I.E.

I.E 7 is just a rip-off of Firefox's features even down to the search bar/tabs etc. Hopefully I.E 7 will adhear to web standards that make web pages in Firefox look bad because they've been coded for the quirkyness of I.E..

The main reason the Firefox took 10% or so of the market was because Microsoft totally ignored I.E developement for years, the reason - they had no competition!
 
So Microsoft have ripped-off Firefox's feature but no other browser has? I think you will find most other browsers have very similar features.

Microsoft are just late implementing these features, because, as you say they have ignored development.

I have never really got on with any other browser apart from IE, it does all I expect from a web browser and IE7 is back in the game, if not ahead of the game. :)

TrUz
 
About a month ago I ditched Firefox due to a few annoyances for Opera9. To my great surprise I think it's great and won't be going back.
 
lmfy2k said:
i have got the infamous "copy/paste" bug in FF, doing my head in, will only copy/paste sometimes :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:

i may give IE7 a try
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Yup i get that as well. highly annoying :mad:
 
Got ****** off with FF about a month ago 'cause every other time I opened FF, it would hang and I'd have to shut it down through task manager. Now I'm using Opera but I've noticed quite a lot of sites don't support it. Gonna give IE7 a try now.
 
Hamish said:
Firefox used to be great, I've been using it for about 3 years, however now its slow and buggy. I just installed IE7 and its like firefox, but less sucky, i like :)
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Firefox is working okay here with no problems however I will be trying out IE7 when it's released.
 
Jimi said:
Got ****** off with FF about a month ago 'cause every other time I opened FF, it would hang and I'd have to shut it down through task manager. Now I'm using Opera but I've noticed quite a lot of sites don't support it. Gonna give IE7 a try now.
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Better update that sig then sonshine :)
 
z0mbi3 said:
No problems with firefox in my experience. I use it on three machine accross home and the office.
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I've triedOpera 9 and IE 7 lately but I always end up going back to Firefox. None of the other browsers come close to the features of FF once you customise it with the 3rd party extensions.
 
S7yl3s said:
Slow and buggy? Not here.
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Yep I would get 10-15 seconds every half hour or so where FF would totally freeze, annoys the hell out of me. Also it crashes at least once a week - more than anything else on my system.

Here are a couple of reasons to switch!

Tile all your tabs:


Zoom into webpages:


I'm sure there are othere things these are just a couple of things i've noticed, also you can import your favourites from FF!
 
Any crashing is most likely broken extensions/plugins/profile related, rather than any core FF issue (assuming you're running the latest stable release).
While it might be easier just running to another browser, in all fairness if you don't try fixing it you've hardly given it a chance.

Memory usage could be improved though, and claiming some of it is a "feature" (i.e. gobbled by the bfcache) is ludicrous.
By the same token, the 1.8 branch (i.e. what'll become Firefox 2) builds have been more stable and less thirsty of late - for comparison, I've got 10 tabs open in it using 96412kB, and a tab with nothing but the default homepage (MSN UK) open in IE using 55780kB. Similarly Firefox has double the VM size with 10 times the tabs.

Hamish said:
Here are a couple of reasons to switch!

Tile all your tabs:
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There's a Firefox extension for that, for what it's worth. Can't remember the name though.

Personally, I found Opera's UI to be bloated compared to Firefox (I don't need a torrent client, mouse gestures and all the other bits that float around), but IE7's shaping up nicely - especially the improvements to CSS rendering that have been made. Horses for courses, and all that.
 
tolien said:
There's a Firefox extension for that, for what it's worth. Can't remember the name though.
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Ooh, I didnt know there was - it was the one thing I felt IE7 had that was making me want to switch. Does anyone know which extension this is?

Personally, I couldn't give up Firefox because of all the useful extensions I use.
 
I'm somebody who keeps their computer on 24/7 and I basically got sick of waking up to find that firefoz was using 1120mb of ram. Opera's great 17 windows for three days now and 217mb used up.

I found a bloody good skin too so it's all cool :D
 
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