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Disgruntled Firefox user

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Skitzer

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I've been using Firefox for about 5 years. Yes, I've tried other browsers including a recent 3 week test of Chrome, but I've always gone back. All of the browsers I've tried, IE, Opera, Safari, Chrome and even Flock have had their good points but also had irritating little flaws which I couldn't live with.
I'm very disappointed with the latest couple of updates of FF. To be honest they have slowed the browser down to a crawl. I use only a few add-ons and have even uninstalled them to see if they were the reason for the slow down. I have uninstalled FF and done a fresh clean install hoping that was the issue. No such luck. So I have to assume that FF has with their latest updates, hosed the browser in some way. Anything 3.6 and above is disappointing.
A big leap for me but I think I'll reinstall Chrome ...... at least it has some speed to it.

Anyone else have the slow speed problem with FF? If so what did you do?
Is there any way I can troubleshoot to find out why it's running so slow?

I'll really miss FF and may try it later when 3.7 comes out but I can't handle it's issues anymore.
 
only opens slow. But after it gets going its as fast as everything else. Maybe not benchmark wise but i cant tell a difference.
 
Raghu said:
^^ Im assuming you havent tried it yet?
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I like Opera, but it's the least web compatible browser I've used. I've had more rendering issues with Opera than any other browser. You can argue about standards all day long, but if it doesn't work with the web we have now, then....
 
What is slow for you in Firefox? I see absolutely no difference in speed between the newest release and other 3.x versions.
 
Yeah, i'm not sure what issue you are having. I'd recommend uninstalling and deleting all your profile/settings folders completely and trying again. That usually fixes the issues.
 
lxskllr said:
I like Opera, but it's the least web compatible browser I've used. I've had more rendering issues with Opera than any other browser. You can argue about standards all day long, but if it doesn't work with the web we have now, then....
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I kinda agree to that. Most of the sites sniff for browser and pass incorrect/untested HTML code to Opera. Its an easy fix though. You can change the UserAgent for such sites to mask as firefox and you will find that they now start working.

Right click on the incompatible webpage, click "Edit Site Preferences" and choose "Mask as Firefox/IE" under the Networks tab. Refresh. Most of the sites start working with this trick. You do need to do this for each site though 🙁

Case in point : Google introduced a new feature where a user could choose a custom image as the background for his search page. It wouldnt work with Opera at all. But if I chose to masquerade as Firefox, it would work flawlessly. Google, for all its openness, is still very biased and unfair.

If you didnt find anything wrong with the Opera browser itself, I would urge you to give it another shot, especially since the new 10.60 is out.

http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/hello-opera-10-60

And the built-in mail client rocks!!
 
Case in point : Google introduced a new feature where a user could choose a custom image as the background for his search page. It wouldnt work with Opera at all. But if I chose to masquerade as Firefox, it would work flawlessly. Google, for all its openness, is still very biased and unfair.
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So you actually think that they intentionally broke it for Opera?
 
I didnt say they broke it intentionally. Really bad if they did though. Probably they just didnt test the code. Or they didnt care to write standards compliant code, which would work on every browser. Probably they didnt test it with Opera.
 
2 weeks ago I permanently switched to Chrome. This was after 3 reinstalls of firefox, tweaking, uninstalling plugins, cache clearing, temp file clearing, and random other attempts at fixing it.
 
Fardringle said:
What is slow for you in Firefox? I see absolutely no difference in speed between the newest release and other 3.x versions.
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FF works fine on my work computer and horribly on my home computer. I basically gave up on it with my home pc.
 
Firefox was a bit of a hog on my XP1800+ with 1.5GB DDR-333 and old 80GB HD - but ever since I upgraded to a cheap $45 MSI mobo, cheap E5200 cpu and 2x2 ddr2-800 with WD black, FF opens really fast and I never have any speed issues for that kind of thing even with a lot of plugins.

I have tried a number of browsers but none have made me ditch FF.
 
Chrome is excellent. The only thing I still use FF for is Firebug at work. I essentially consider it an obnoxious, bloated, legacy IDE for the web at this point.
 
Firefox seems to be trying to do to much to keep users. They need to look at what got them to where they are. I have a version of the 4.0 beta and am getting more concerned after seeing it. The version name does not instill confidence, its called minefield.
 
Chrome is horrible. Lags like a son of a gun when having a lot of tabs open. I don't care if you don't believe me. Hopefully at this post I get more people to use chrome so I can watch what everyone is doing!
 
I switched to Chrome a few months ago and haven't looked back. Firefox had been taking it's time loading up, and it was also rendering certain webpages unbearably slow. Add to that the massive chunk of memory that it uses for no apparent reason, and I'd just had enough of it.

Chrome loads up within 5 seconds, the tabs each have their own process, it uses almost half the memory that Firefox uses, and I haven't really had any problems with it at all. I really love the way that Chrome handles plugins, such as flash, crashing. Firefox will crash along with the plugin, but Chrome just shows a sad face on the page and tells you to refresh it.
 
Barnaby W. Füi;30073376 said:
Chrome is excellent. The only thing I still use FF for is Firebug at work. I essentially consider it an obnoxious, bloated, legacy IDE for the web at this point.
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Tried Opera Dragonfly yet? Its quite intuitive and extremely functional.
 
Raghu said:
I didnt say they broke it intentionally. Really bad if they did though. Probably they just didnt test the code. Or they didnt care to write standards compliant code, which would work on every browser. Probably they didnt test it with Opera.
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I wouldn't test in Opera either unless I was really bored. This thread actually caused me to install Opera mini on my android phone and I was really not impressed. The included browser, based on KHTML, just feels and works so much better that I'm deleting Opera mini already.
 
Opera for desktop is much different than Opera Mini. Opposite ends of the spectrum. Opera Mini is meant mainly for feature phones or light browsing. Their smartphone browser is called Opera Mobile. They have been planning to release one for the AndroidOS, but its been delayed quite a lot.

What exactly was wrong with Opera Mini though? Did you try Opera for the desktop yet?

Also, Im not saying that devs need to test in Opera. Devs need to write standard compliant code, and it will automatically work in Opera too 🙂
 
Raghu said:
Opera for desktop is much different than Opera Mini. Opposite ends of the spectrum. Opera Mini is meant mainly for feature phones or light browsing. Their smartphone browser is called Opera Mobile. They have been planning to release one for the AndroidOS, but its been delayed quite a lot.

What exactly was wrong with Opera Mini though? Did you try Opera for the desktop yet?

Also, Im not saying that devs need to test in Opera. Devs need to write standard compliant code, and it will automatically work in Opera too 🙂
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Well the browser they put in the android market is called Opera Mini, not mobile. I couldn't figure out how to zoom in/out and I just like the way the included browser feels better.

I never liked Opera on the desktop either. In Linux mainly because it used the QT toolkit which I find ugly compared to GTK. And on top of that I just want a browser, I want a fucking IRC, email bittorrent client.
 
opera is awesome but still doesnt open as fast as chrome. I would try opera if you are getting tired of FF.

I have tried to switch a few times, its only been a day now, but so far so good with opera.
 
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