Is it just me or is Firefox getting pretty unstable?

FirebarUK · 3 Apr 2006 at 12:41

Opera, so damn stable (I ditched Firefox due to these problems). It takes a while to get used to the basic look, but give it a skin and customise it a little and it makes a brilliant web portal. Email and Browsing, lovely (not new things, but it just does them so damn well).

MR_Punk · 3 Apr 2006 at 12:42

FirebarUK said:
Opera, so damn stable (I ditched Firefox due to these problems). It takes a while to get used to the basic look, but give it a skin and customise it a little and it makes a brilliant web portal. Email and Browsing, lovely (not new things, but it just does them so damn well).

snap!

+44

manveruppd · 19 Mar 2007 at 19:15

Having the same problems with Firefox as other people mentioned above. Till now I thought it was a problem with my PC, that Windows needed reinstalling or something, but I'm currently on my gf's pc which is a completely different setup (mine's an Athlon XP on XPpro, hers is a Celeron-M on XPhome), and the Cpu usage just shot up to 100% just by my opening another tab! It's gotten worse since I installed Google toolbar as well.

I'm definitely going back to Opera now that i know it's not the fault of my build... the only thing Firefox has going for it over Opera is the IE-like autocomplete feature, and the fact that they haven't released a version of google toolbar for opera yet anyway.

tom_e · 19 Mar 2007 at 19:18

Holy thread revival i thought Octagon was back

manveruppd · 19 Mar 2007 at 19:24

Search forums for the victory! Why a question when everything's been answered by the Oracular Collective UK?

Anyone know in which of the 3 stickies that "quick fix" that CurlyWhirly mentioned is?

Usher · 19 Mar 2007 at 19:26

load one of the stable earlier versions of firefox & make sure you have updates turned off, theres a good forum for firefox users

http://forums.mozillazine.org/index.php?c=4

Tom84 · 19 Mar 2007 at 19:26

2.02 is ridiculously buggy, mine crashes at least once ever couple of days. I downgraded back to good old stable 2.0 and haven't had any problems since

mrk · 19 Mar 2007 at 20:10

I have 20 enabled extensions and have not had a single Firefox Crash since upgrading to v2 from 1.5 !

I wubs FF =)

If you are having firefox issues I would say it's almost certain it's extension related with an unstable extension somewhere!

BTW I access my FF from work via remote desktop and it's pretty much a severe workhorse which is never closed.

Trifid · 19 Mar 2007 at 20:15

I have a problem with the English UK dictionary which doesn't seem to understand the difference between the US one. :confused:

No crashes though.

bledd · 19 Mar 2007 at 20:20

mrk said:
I have 20 enabled extensions and have not had a single Firefox Crash since upgrading to v2 from 1.5 !

I wubs FF =)

If you are having firefox issues I would say it's almost certain it's extension related with an unstable extension somewhere!
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ditto!

a4ron · 19 Mar 2007 at 20:21

Mine has been crashing a lot recently, hoping the new update will fix things.

MrWhippy · 19 Mar 2007 at 20:25

only time i get FF crashes is after approx 30 mins fantasy car buying/browsing on the autotrader site. the program just disappears on me.

LoadsaMoney · 19 Mar 2007 at 20:56

Never had any problems here, latest version.

Clarkey · 19 Mar 2007 at 21:16

never have any crashes here, it does use a silly amount of memory though, just restarted it because it was using 250mb

Big Bernard · 19 Mar 2007 at 21:32

It's making my XP laptop freeze up a lot :mad:

mrk · 19 Mar 2007 at 21:50

Clarkey said:
never have any crashes here, it does use a silly amount of memory though, just restarted it because it was using 250mb

That ain't nothing, I've had it use 1.5GB before when I browsed a thread that was full of photos (of babes no less!)

Though normally STEAM is the memory user-upper-of-choice!

Greenlizard0 · 20 Mar 2007 at 01:06

I had a plethera (woah, big word there...) of issues with earlier versions of firefox, so many that I moved to Opera and haven't really looked back. I'm sure that the newer versions will work fine on my machine, but in terms of web browsers I feel I don't need to fix anything that ain't broken...

james.miller · 20 Mar 2007 at 01:18

erm, ive had no problems with it recently actually. id go as far as saying its never been better. i've had 20-30 pages open, no problems. no real problems with websites and if i do come across one it doesnt like i just right click and launch it in explorer. right now im very happy with firefox

Final8y · 20 Mar 2007 at 02:14

Like someone else has posted it to easy to blame firefox & not the extensions as the extensions never popup and say i have crashed, they just take down FF with out you knowing.

Craig321 · 20 Mar 2007 at 02:15

Hamish said:
In the good old days of Firebird and older versions of firefox it used to be really quick and hardly ever crash, nowadays it crashes at least once a day, I was reading the favourite GIFs thread and FF just froze for about 20 secs at a time 3 or 4 times before I closed it. It also seems to take longer to load up now too

Anyone else found this?

I've not had any problems with it, 100% stable for me