Anyone else notice FireFox is getting more buggy?

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I have been running FireFox for a long time now and it is my favorite browser. The last couple of releases have caused all kinds of page faults and freezes on XP and in Vista.

Over the past six months I have been giving equal time to Google Chrome (when it came out), Opera, and IE. FireFox freezes or hangs much more than the other browsers.

Anyone else notice this lately?
 
I've had a few more issues lately than I have had before, but the act that it's using about half as much memory as it used to is worth it.
 
Originally Posted By: chevrofreak
I've had a few more issues lately than I have had before, but the act that it's using about half as much memory as it used to is worth it.


Even buggy, FireFox is still my go to browser.

I really wanted to like Chrome, but meh, it is just so-so.

FireFox really shines with add-ons like Ad Blocker Plus, Flash Killer, Linkification, etc.
 
Originally Posted By: Saturn_Fan
Originally Posted By: chevrofreak
I've had a few more issues lately than I have had before, but the act that it's using about half as much memory as it used to is worth it.


Even buggy, FireFox is still my go to browser.

I really wanted to like Chrome, but meh, it is just so-so.

FireFox really shines with add-ons like Ad Blocker Plus, Flash Killer, Linkification, etc.


I had that issue when updating to the new firefox. I had lock up issues. I wiped my hard drive and did a clean install from an image I had done with no software installed. No lock up and computer runs really well.
 
I've noticed that a few Yahoo pages are giving me trouble recently, but that's about all. Haven't been doing a lot of internetting lately though..

It seems to be a cyclical thing, in my experience. I've used the Mozilla browsers all the way since Netscape Navagator and this goes on periodically. Upgrade your Firefox, see if it's any better, I know a new version was released recently, I just got it today.

Haven't tried Chrome yet, probably will. Opera is working pretty well, I don't use it often but sometimes it's just the tool. Konqueror still rocks, and it still has one trick that nobody else does: you can split the window horizontally or vertically and have a different page in each pane. There are times when that's just the trick for comparing contents of two windows. Taken to an extreme, you can have a window full of mostly scrollbars and little panes;-)

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Originally Posted By: lame_penguin
I've noticed that a few Yahoo pages are giving me trouble recently, but that's about all. Haven't been doing a lot of internetting lately though..

It seems to be a cyclical thing, in my experience. I've used the Mozilla browsers all the way since Netscape Navagator and this goes on periodically. Upgrade your Firefox, see if it's any better, I know a new version was released recently, I just got it today.

Haven't tried Chrome yet, probably will. Opera is working pretty well, I don't use it often but sometimes it's just the tool. Konqueror still rocks, and it still has one trick that nobody else does: you can split the window horizontally or vertically and have a different page in each pane. There are times when that's just the trick for comparing contents of two windows. Taken to an extreme, you can have a window full of mostly scrollbars and little panes;-)

lp


I'll have to try this "Konqueror" you mention. I am always up for trying new browsers, mainly out of boredom. That split window deal sounds neat the way you describe it.

I like Opera quite a bit too. It runs fast for me and I am starting to like its interface.
 
Never had any issues windows or mac. I run no add-ons. Like anything, the more complex you make it, the more trouble-prone it can be.
 
No problems here
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There are sites that use very heavy scripting that can slow FF to a crawl. I downloaded Opera to use on those sites. Supposedly FF 3.5 is fasted but I didn't try yet.
 
I have been running it on all our PC's at home/work and I haven't had a single issue with it.

I'm using it right now as I type this...
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The only thing I do differently is I have no tool-bars installed, I use ESET Smart Security Anti-Virus and I use Auslogic's Boost Speed Internet Optimizer to optimized IE & FF for the best speed possible.
 
I hardly ever use FF at home because from double click to open it takes almost a freaking minute with the latest version. IE opens instantly.. go figure..
 
I have noticed it's buggy, too.
ever since i got 3.5, it's faster, but buggy: random crashes, lock ups, etc; glad to see it's not only me, hopefully they are aware of this and will fix it soon.

Still loads better than other browsers.
 
Originally Posted By: Buffman
I hardly ever use FF at home because from double click to open it takes almost a freaking minute with the latest version. IE opens instantly.. go figure..


IE was basically already running.
 
Originally Posted By: ToyotaNSaturn
FF has always sputtered & locked in Vista, Google it, you're not alone.

Hasn't locked or sputtered once on Win7


I don't think it's crashed a single time on my Vista64 machine.
 
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