FireFox woes

**rhumbaflappy** · August 31st, 2011, 12:18

The auto-update feature of Firefox put me into version 6 and I've had nothing but trouble with the incredible sloooooowness of forum pages loading. It made SOH browsing torture.

I tried Google Chrome, and was very impressed with it's quickness in both page loading and downloading... but I missed my old FireFox.

What I did was to remove Firefox with the windows control panel, then re-install an old copy of FireFox 4.01. It worked like a charm, and I can now speedily browse with my old comfort settings.

No one at FireFox seems to acknowledge the problem with the current version... and the version7 beta also has the problem.

So you can solve it by taking a great leap backwards... not exactly what Mao envisioned.

Dick

***OBIO*** · August 31st, 2011, 12:22

I've been using Firefox 6 since it was in Beta and have had no problems with it.

OBIO

***Allen*** · August 31st, 2011, 12:23

On another PC I had some ver of FF 6. It was crap. Just like you said and eat up RAM to no end. I'm a IE8 user and have Google Chrome back up should IE8 not work on a website.

***stiz*** · August 31st, 2011, 12:48

i've had a few problems with it crashing randomly when browseing flash intensive websites (youtube for example) but other that no probs ere.

**johnh_049** · August 31st, 2011, 14:21

I've had no complaints about FF6. maybe some setting?

***NachtPiloten*** · August 31st, 2011, 16:18

Miserable, can't navigate off the first page, slow, back to IE8 for now.

**AndyG43** · August 31st, 2011, 16:42

I've dumped Firefox, it was becoming virtually unusable - which is kinda sad, as it was the first real alternative to IE I found. FF5 was causing so many issues, and I couldn't be bothered to make the move to 6.

Chrome is fine, really quick (like FF used to be, back in the day), but I find the interface isn't as intuitive as it could be; so I use Chrome for a few sites, and back to IE8 for most of my web use.

**johnh_049** · August 31st, 2011, 16:58

wow, I can't understand why so many are having problems with FF.
Usually is something is going to go wrong, it will go wrong for me.

***Dangerousdave26*** · August 31st, 2011, 20:21

I decided a while ago to stay with 3.6.13 on my single core processor PC.

They keep throwing more stuff into browsers and probably optimizing them to run on multiple core PC's. The more they do that I believe the less compatible they become with older PC's.

Now my laptop is probably plenty capable of running the latest version I just don't want to run two different versions.

***warchild*** · August 31st, 2011, 20:46

every now and then,i get an error where a script has stopped running and as soon as i turn off the script and prevent it from doing anything more,FF speeds up. The script?? Chrome. I'm so pissed at google it isnt funny. To me, its a deliberate attempt on their part to cripple mozilla and make their own piece of garbage more appealing..

**SpitXIV** · August 31st, 2011, 21:47

warchild,

I had to reinstall Google because it told me it was corrupted, don't remember what I
installed before that caused it. but haven't had any trouble since then. Every search
engine seems to have their bugs, don't know why this is. I seemed to get more spam
with Firefox. I didn't care for their new beta, seems more trouble than it's worth,
just me I guess.

**Astoroth** · September 1st, 2011, 01:17

Originally Posted by warchild

every now and then,i get an error where a script has stopped running and as soon as i turn off the script and prevent it from doing anything more,FF speeds up. The script?? Chrome. I'm so pissed at google it isnt funny. To me, its a deliberate attempt on their part to cripple mozilla and make their own piece of garbage more appealing..

One person's junk is another man's treasure. I happen to really like Chrome, have been using it for almost a year now. As for Firefox, can't stand it. Never have liked it. Go figure...

**rhumbaflappy** · September 1st, 2011, 05:11

The slowness of FireFox 6 is a problem caused by some incompatibility with my system. But the odd thing is that version 4 runs like a charm... as does IE8 and Chrome.

Chrome is so quick! I may end up switching.

Dick

***lefty*** · September 1st, 2011, 05:29

I'm another one becoming disenchanted with Firefox. Version 6 lasted approximately an hour on my system before I went back to 4.0.1 No Google toolbar, no virtual keyboard, Autofill didn't work, and oh so slow. A bad job.

***deKoven*** · September 1st, 2011, 06:55

Sorry, I dun' track yez all on this one. FF6 is working fine, very fast and no probs at all. My guess? Possibly yez need to defrag with dfragger that moves all stuff, not just what the current fast defraggers want to move. Oh for the days of dfraggers that did what YOU wanted to do, not what the designer boys built in. And therein lies the crux of why I became a programmer; I wanted programs that did what I wanted done, not the krup someone else wanted.

The recent and current crop of bloatware proves my point. At one time I even switched to Linux to get away from it, but even they are moving in what is to me the wrong direction.