I'm done with Firefox

I have that youtube flash crashing problem. Never figured out what caused it but it seems to be doing it less now after flash updated a few times. I basically just had to live with it until adobe fixed it is what I'm saying.
 
I have been having an issue with firefox for about 6 months and I cannot find the problem. The issue is that it hangs with a "firefox is not responding message" for about 5-10 seconds and then it comes back fine. It generally just does not feel like the UI is quick. This does NOT happen on my home machine running windows XP SP2 high spec. It DOES happen on my work machine only which is Windows 7. Things I have tried:

Rebuilt machine and upgraded OS from 32bit to 64bit Windows 7
Tried updating firefox
Tried running waterfox on 64bit and it still does it
Disabled all add ons
Tried various fixes and tweaks found online
Tried turning off hardware acceleration
More ram does not fix it

Chrome and IE8/9 work fine. Chrome is lightning in comparison but I hate how you can't customize it like firefox. Also no bookmarks left hand pane which annoys me.

I want my firefox back!! :(
 
I work in an office with 4 of us in it, (used to be 5), we've all complained about how rubbish Firefox has gotten recently and have all switched to Chrome at different times.

Chrome is just better and at last some decent plugins are coming out for it.
 
Check for updates to add ons and plug ins before blaming the browser.

I have tried all the other browsers but none other have the ability to customise and wide range of add-ons that Firefox has
 
My Firefox is still going strong here... Chrome is tempting me with it's snappiness, but it's not as customizable as Firefox, and there's no smoothscrolling (extensions don't feel as good as Firefox's smoothscroll)!

Best to create a new Firefox profile, that usually solves the porblem.
 
Currently using firefox now. Works fine - loving it. Moved from Chrome and Firefox just has more things I enjoy using more than chrome. Not had any problems with it since I installed it 6 months or so ago.
 
If your on a 64bit OS try waterfox, its a 64bit version of firefox, same look and feel but its a whole lot snappier (for me atleast) and it uses your old firefox profile so nothing is lost.
 
One good thing i like about firefox is Xmarks (it was called foxmarks when it first came out i think) it lets you sync bookmarks across multiple machines. Does anyone know if Chrome has something similar? .......... I'm off to google anyway, just incase anyone knew :-)
 
Opera.

Bookmark/Speed Dial syncing
Mail
Turbo for slow networks
Mouse Gestures
Highly Customisable
Fast
Profile-able (Always program open with specific tabs open)
Tab Stacking
Tab Pinning
Private Browsing
+More

All out of the box.

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Sadly I ditched firefox and then moved to chrome eventually, it was too laggy/bloated and things just werent working, decided to try chrome and its fairly smooth but was considering going back to chrome
 
estebanrey said:
Youtube Videos keep Crashing - I'll be watching a video when suddenly it goes off with 'application error' or something comes up and I have to refersh the page and skip back to where I was.
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Make sure you haven't got two versions of Adobe Flash Player installed within Control Panel >> Programs and Features.
 
Bobster said:
One good thing i like about firefox is Xmarks (it was called foxmarks when it first came out i think) it lets you sync bookmarks across multiple machines. Does anyone know if Chrome has something similar? .......... I'm off to google anyway, just incase anyone knew :-)
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Firefox sync does this, as well as syncing everything, like add ons, history etc. Very useful.
 
Always ran ff without any problems, always found it to math my needs and personal preferences. It beats pulling your hair out with ie, updating it for 3 hours only to find it becomes just as frustrating the next day
 
Bobster said:
One good thing i like about firefox is Xmarks (it was called foxmarks when it first came out i think) it lets you sync bookmarks across multiple machines. Does anyone know if Chrome has something similar? .......... I'm off to google anyway, just incase anyone knew :-)
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Firefox sync does the same thing (built into Firefox), it also syncs your addons, customisations, history, passwords, tabs, and themes.

Chrome has the same thing. All you do is sign into your Google account in the settings.
 
Originally I was a huge opera user, using it for many years but eventually moved to firefox after opera started getting bloated with their file sharing rubbish, and then when firefox wasn't being quite what I wanted I am now a Chrome user. Chrome isn't perfect but it's the best I've used so far.
 
What's all this firefox profile stuff? Interested as I'm having a strange problem that's not long started?

Also, someone mentioned waterfox, is this made by the same authors as firefox and just a 64bit version?
 
Bobster said:
One good thing i like about firefox is Xmarks (it was called foxmarks when it first came out i think) it lets you sync bookmarks across multiple machines. Does anyone know if Chrome has something similar? .......... I'm off to google anyway, just incase anyone knew :-)
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Xmarks has plugins for Chrome, IE and Safari as well as Firefox, so you can sync your bookmarks across multiple browsers as well as multiple machines. It was bought out a while back by the developers of LastPass, which also has cross-browser support.

I've never liked Firefox Sync much, too little feedback as to what's going on and it's been less than 100% reliable in my experience.
 
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