Firefox 3 (and the last few versions of 2) sucks

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

Reformat your damn system. If that app is crashing ask yourself 2 things:

1) Are the things you're doing with your browser way out there that we aren't doing?
2) Extensions? The more you install the more incompatibilities might exist

Well? I have yet to see FF3 crash on me, so either I'm not surfing the web fully or whatever. I also reformat every once in a while so that might also be why. People tell me about IE7 crashes but I've seen maybe 1 - 2 crashes tops in my whole experience with IE7 and I use both that and FF3. My system is quite clean and I believe that contributes to a huge part of why my apps don't crash.

 

[OdiN]

FF has always been very stable for me.

Maybe you should take your computer in to have a qualified technician diagnose it for you.

 

[Feldenak]

I don't like FF b/c my mouse pointer seems to slow down when using a FF window.

 

[fishjie]

when I was using gmail in firefox 2 on vista, the browser would constantly freeze up for no reason. i eventually just used IE for gmail instead. after upgrading to 3, gmail works perfectly.

 

[MmmSkyscraper]

Originally posted by: fishjie
when I was using gmail in firefox 2 on vista, the browser would constantly freeze up for no reason. i eventually just used IE for gmail instead. after upgrading to 3, gmail works perfectly.

There was nothing wrong with GMail in FF 2 on Vista...

 

[darkswordsman17]

I had FF2 crash on me regularly, but haven't had an issue with FF3. IE7 is dog slow in comparison. All of those are my experiences on both Vista SP1 and an old install of WinXP.

 

[AgaBoogaBoo]

I haven't had a single issue on FF3...

 

[GeneValgene]

opera is lightning fast...but FF still has better page compatibility in my opinion, and better javascript performance (like for facebook)

because of that, opera is my browser of choice, but i installed FF for my wife

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: GeneValgene
opera is lightning fast...but FF still has better page compatibility in my opinion, and better javascript performance (like for facebook)

because of that, opera is my browser of choice, but i installed FF for my wife

i dont have any issues with facebook with Opera. however there ar erandom pages where certian things dont like to work, much less then their used to be but its nop really operas fault people cant program webpages for shit

isnt IE8 supposed to be strict to the web standard? thats gonna be fun watching 1/2 the internet not work

 

[Snapster]

I find whatever crashes I do get are mainly due to add-ons miss-behaving ...

 

[BurnItDwn]

No issues with FF3 crashes here, runs just fine on Windows and Linux. Haven't messed with OpenBSD in a few months, but FF2 never gave me a problem.
I downloaded Opera through the ports tree a year or so ago on my OpenBSD box (450mhz laptop, 192mb of ram, fluxbox GUI) and while it was faster and "lighter" than FF, it crashed almost everyday, so I switched to FF on it (though since then it has been replaced with a p4 laptop.)

 

[judasmachine]

WTH are you guys doing to FF to make it crash? I abuse it daily and it keeps going.

 

[amdskip]

I leave Firefox open all week at work doing web development. Your computers obviously suck. Have you ran memtest on them?

 

[Injury]

FF3 works just fine on OSX 10.5

 

[Chiropteran]

FF never crashes here.

I have tried Opera. It isn't terrible, I would use it if I didn't have Firefox, but there are a few minor things about it that annoy me.

 

[jalaram]

Not crashing (v2 or v3) for me either. And IMHO, this topic belongs in Software.

 

[DomS]

no crashes here either...I like it at work, I'll be switching to it at home...I don't like that if you clear private data you can't uncheck passwords...it automatically deletes them

 

[irishScott]

Originally posted by: jdoggg12

Originally posted by: jpeyton
FF3 is stable for me.

Sounds like your computer is fvcked.

And my home computer, and my friends computers, and the 3-400 computers its installed on at my work?

Yes, apparently. Haven't had any problems in the few months I've been using it. If your work did a universal install from a corrupted image/file, that could be the cause.

 

[zoiks]

FF is all I use and never had a crash.

 

[Capt Caveman]

No crashes here on multiple systems.

 

[So]

I also don't think FF3 has crashed once on me.

 

[Nik]

If Opera would actually render pages correctly, I'd use it. IE > Opera > Firefukt.

 

[ZetaEpyon]

Originally posted by: judasmachine
WTH are you guys doing to FF to make it crash? I abuse it daily and it keeps going.

This.

I always wonder what the hell people are doing to have such problems with FF. I've never had crash OR memory issues with any version of it.

 

[mooseracing]

Originally posted by: DLeRium
Reformat your damn system.

Damn, so when you have a car and the engine is acting up, you just rebuild it instead of trying to find the actualy problem?

 

[Xavier434]

FF3 never crashes for me. In fact, FF2 never really crashed for me either.