Goodbye Firefox!

Maybe I'm just special but I don't ever have stability issues with Firefox on any platforms on which I've used it. Sure it can use a lot of memory but it's designed to do that. Why have a computer with 2048 MiB of memory installed, as many of us do, if we're going to let 90% of it sit free. I'd like my browser to use the capabilities of the hardware available to it to make my browsing experience better. If Ff wants to use 100 MiB RAM it can do that. I don't see all these memory leaks people harp about and I certainly don't see bugs galore.

I'm wondering how much of the whining I hear about Ff is based on a sort of snowball effect. Some people begin to complain about certain issues and others join in the fray simply because it's stylish to do so.

It's far from perfect but in my eyes it remains ahead of anything IE7 can do.
 
I've never experienced any probs with Firefox. I recently installed IE7 and found that it was a little sluggish opening new tabs compared to FF.
 
Never had any problems with Firefox and so will continue to use it.

Although having said that, I use the 3 main browsers (IE, FF & Opera) anyway so I'm not missing out on anything :p
 
I'm definitely sticking with Firefox, I can't get on with IE7 at all.

My major gripes are the tiny back/forward buttons, and the fact that the other toolbar buttons are spread about all over the place. In Firefox I have back - forward - stop - reload - history - new tab. All close together and full size so they are easy to click on and I don't need to move the mouse much. eg. clicking back and then refresh - on IE7 I have to click the small back button then move the pointer all the way to the other side of the screen, and click the tiny refresh button. Ridiculous.

Another big thing which Firefox has and IE7 doesn't, is allowing drop-down folders on the bookmarks (aka links) toolbar. On FF's bookmarks toolbar I have an ebay folder which I can click, and it drops down all my ebay links. I have other invaluable folders too. In IE7 this seems impossible to do unless someone knows different.

Adblock is also a killer-app extension for FF but I don't know if IE7 now has an equivalent. But for the above two gripes I cannot stand to use IE7, it is a backwards step in GUI usability over IE6.

Oh, another thing which is crap: when there is only a single tab in use, the tab should not be shown - that's how it is in FF and in Safari on OSX. Why don't Microsoft learn from others how it's done.
 
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Oh, another thing which is crap: when there is only a single tab in use, the tab should not be shown - that's how it is in FF and in Safari on OSX. Why don't Microsoft learn from others how it's done.
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I'm not sure that I agree.... Opera still shows only a single tab and I can't say that it bothers me in the slightest.
 
Smit said:
I'm not sure that I agree.... Opera still shows only a single tab and I can't say that it bothers me in the slightest.
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OK for users with 1280x1024 screens, but with lower res, it's a complete waste of space.
 
Morlan said:
OK for users with 1280x1024 screens, but with lower res, it's a complete waste of space.
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Yep. I do use 1280x1024 but I still recognise it is pointless. It would have been so simple to include a checkbox option like FF and Safari do, 'always show the tab bar' which is unchecked by default on those browsers.

Speaking of higher resolutions, it must be great hitting those fiddly little stop and refresh buttons at 1280x1024 on 17" TFT... even on my 19" TFT they are about 5mm². On IE6 you used to be able to position the buttons where you want, and choose whether to have large, small or text underneath them. In IE7, Microsoft chooses what you're having, and you can like it or lump it. And this is supposed to be progress...
 
Just checked out IE7 and I never thought I'd say this, but I'm on my way back to using IE. Love the new features and the fact that it uses so little RAM. Will still keep Firefox until the fix the mem error I keep getting even AFTER a complete format.
 
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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I've never had a problem with FF. Haven't ever lost settings/bookmarks, never had the "copy/paste" bug, it's never crashed unless the website I go onto has dodgy coding, FF2.0 is very fast at rendering, IE tabs are slower than Mozilla ones (I'm working on a 1.5GHZ PC at the moment, so generally tabbing is slower, but on this PC tabbing is faster on Firefox).

IE7 is good, and I'm going to be using it more now that it's better, but FF still matches up to it.
 
Firefox is a great browser, I would agree though that it did seem to go down hill slightly since 1.5. However RC2.0 is brilliant and stable.

I think a lot of problems arise from the fact Firefox is so customisable, and add ontop of that how customised peoples windows installs are.

Personaly I hate internet explorer. Microsoft have had 7 bits at the cherry, but still can't get it right. My hate for IE comes from the fact it's a mare to deal with web development wise.
 
Since 2.0 I have not had a single crash due to firefox being buggy or anything at all, 1.5/1.7 used to crash sometimes randomly but thankfully I had a session restore extension which restored all my tabs and if was writing a post in a forum for example it would also restore the text up to the point of crashing which was awesome.

FF2.0 seems to do this out the box though with added features!

I have IE7 final but as always my extensions in FF are far far more important and the sleeker interface in FF than IE.

IE only gets used for website designing and stuff now :)
 
hmm i have used firefox now for a few years and wouldnt think of going back to ie6 at least. i would move back to ie7 if it supported all the extensions that i currently have loaded into firefox (e.g scroll anywhere). does ie7 support extentions and themes for that matter?

also one of the major annoyances that i have with firefox is that if u leave it open for too long then memory leaks start to occur and things like movies and general system usage starts to get very slow. checking taskmanager releases it s usage of ram has shot to something silly like 100mb... meaning u have to shut down all instances of firefox.

might have to give ie7 a shot actually.
 
I've alsp turned away from firefox:)

Also had the copy paste bug, did my head in when it wouldn't work!!

Now using I.E7 final release, finding it much better, im getting about twice the rendering speed I used to get with firefox, and that was even with fasterfox installed:eek:
 
I would use IE, but I cant have RSS feeds as drop down links under the menu bar like in FF, which for me is a big miss.
 
Never had any problems with FF. Adblock is the thing that makes it really along with all the other cool gadgets available.

FoXspose is the plugin that tiles your tabs.

FF 2.0 is out tomorrow ;)
 
Ive never had any problems with firefox whatsoever. It annoys me when people something has bugs when it clearly works for the majority of people. Its most likely a file conflict or something, a simple re-install should sort it out.

The only thing i find is it struggles on opening pdf files, but thats no doubt due to me having multiple things open and lack of ram.
 
Ok i have a query

At work i use IE7 and am loving having the option to open a new tab on the main screen, without having to go through menus (File>New Tab). Now i know its as easy as Ctrl+T but is there an extension to download on Firefox which gives you the same option as IE7?

Thanks people :cool:
 
Hamish said:
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Opera's way of zooming into webpages is a lot better, and i'm sure you can do this on IE

Im a firefox user by the way, opera is good i just dont like using it.

IE7, Opera and Firefox = win :)

Firefox causes me no troubles at all sure maybe now and again it doesn't copy ... but that doesn't bother at all
 
I was using IE7 happily on my new rig until I couldn't sign into a certain website and it blocks the most trivial popups. Firefox again for me
 
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