Firefox is NOT the holy grail

[mrSHEiK124]

I'm sick of CPU usage skyrocketing to 100% for no reason, and I'm sick of RAM usage going up to over 9000 MB. I've got a 1.73 GHz Dothan and 2 GB of RAM; browsing the internet shouldn't make me feel like I'm using a Pentium 200 MMX. Flash shouldn't randomly stop playing sound and failing to play more than 2 seconds of video because Firefox has been open for more than five minutes.

IE is swiss cheese into my Windows kernel; I'm not about to start using it and open my computer up to being compromised. Safari sucks, let it stay on Mac (I downloaded it the day it came out, too many incompatibilities and uglyness with its weird font smoothing). I guess I'm going to try Opera....

 

[Spineshank]

Did you try FF 3?

 

[MaxDepth]

Have you tried FireFox 3 Beta Five (or Beta 3)?

There is a huge world of differences between two and three. I was about to give up on it myself.

 

[clamum]

I left Firefox for Opera a few years ago and haven't been back to it. I :heart: Opera.

 

[Trogdor91]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
I'm sick of CPU usage skyrocketing to 100% for no reason, and I'm sick of RAM usage going up to over 9000 MB. I've got a 1.73 GHz Dothan and 2 GB of RAM; browsing the internet shouldn't make me feel like I'm using a Pentium 200 MMX. Flash shouldn't randomly stop playing sound and failing to play more than 2 seconds of video because Firefox has been open for more than five minutes.

IE is swiss cheese into my Windows kernel; I'm not about to start using it and open my computer up to being compromised. Safari sucks, let it stay on Mac (I downloaded it the day it came out, too many incompatibilities and uglyness with its weird font smoothing). I guess I'm going to try Opera....

OVER 9000?!

 

[irishScott]

I think your rigs has problems beyond FF with those numbers.

Been using it for years, never had any usage remotely that large even with 30 some odd tabs open.

 

[Bill Brasky]

Firefox 3b really is fast, and has some great features. I'm just waiting for better addon support.

edit: Surely he meant 900 mb.

 

[Auryg]

You'll love Opera.

 

[effowe]

Originally posted by: irishScott
I think your rigs has problems beyond FF with those numbers.

Been using it for years, never had any usage remotely that large even with 30 some odd tabs open.

QFT, give FF 3.0b5 a shot, much was done to improve speed / memory usage.

 

[child of wonder]

It's over 9000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I took out 100 or so ! as they were messing up the formatting.

Moderator allisolm

 

[nakedfrog]

You've got to have some bum plugins or something, that's not right at all.

 

[Steve]

I love Opera. Although once in a while it does spike my laptop to 100% for a bit (I think this may be Flash-related). And it doesn't quite work right on my work PC (Windows 2000). Nevertheless, I can't believe I stuck it out with IE for so long...

 

[Vehemence]

Opera makes my heart and pants swell. Unfortunately Roboform doesn't work on it so I'm forced to use IE7/FF sometimes.

 

[jaqie]

Originally posted by: mrSHEiK124
I'm going to try Opera.

Welcome to reality

 

[Chiropteran]

I tried opera and went back to Firefox, opera was too slow.

 

[lokiju]

Firefox 3.5 beta seems to be faster to me.

Plus to load up on a million plug-ins and then expect it to run as smooth as it would with none.

 

[mrSHEiK124]

Originally posted by: irishScott
I think your rigs has problems beyond FF with those numbers.

Been using it for years, never had any usage remotely that large even with 30 some odd tabs open.

http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/IT'S_OVER_NINE_THOUSAND!

Windows would crash before something could rack up 9000 MB VM usage :laugh:


Opera rocks my socks, rendering engine is way faster, and I don't have any weird Firefox plugins. Just DownthemAll and Adblock Plus. I might try FF3, after my Operagasm ends.

 

[skace]

Are we supposed to pretend that this is normal standard functionality for firefox version 2? Because it isn't.

 

[PricklyPete]

Originally posted by: clamum
I left Firefox for Opera a few years ago and haven't been back to it. I :heart: Opera.

I left Firefox for Internet Explorer a few years ago and haven't been back to it. I :heart: Internet Explorer.

 

[zoiks]

Firefox is all I use.

 

[DisgruntledVirus]

Originally posted by: PricklyPete

Originally posted by: clamum
I left Firefox for Opera a few years ago and haven't been back to it. I :heart: Opera.

I left Firefox for Internet Explorer a few years ago and haven't been back to it. I :heart: Internet Explorer.

Sins....

 

[tfinch2]

RAM unused is RAM wasted. When will that sink into n00bs brains?

 

[dwell]

I've never had a problem with Firefox. It might eat a lot of RAM, but unless I watch in the process monitor I would never know. I have 2GB for a reason and between VS 2005, Eclipse, and Flex Builder 3, Apache, Tomcat, Photoshop -- FF is the least offensive app I have running when it comes to RAM.

Given the choice between a browser with shit for standards support and add-ons and FF eating a little RAM -- hard choice, really.

 

[TruePaige]

I didn't have a problem with FF2, mem. usage did creep up a bit but not much unless I left it up for about a week or so.

FF3 though, wow, I didn't know it could get this good, it's performance beats the you know what out of IE et. all.

 

[T9D]

There are a lot of things that I dislike about firefox (and a couple bugs too). I still use it though because of the adblock.