Getting the feeling MS is screwing Fire Fox

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Man, Fire Fox has become real slow lately. I don't think its the web or the servers hosting the sights, i think the big Microsoft is screwing Fire Fox in order to make people switch from it back to IE

 

[JujuFish]

PEBKAC.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Still fast for me, must be an add-on you are running or something else on your system

 

[Barfo]

Try rebooting.

 

[Leros]

Firefox on three of my machines (2 home and 1 work) has been slow as heck. If I try to do anything intensive, say a few flash videos, it crashes.

 

[amdhunter]

Format C:

 

[schneiderguy]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
Man, Fire Fox has become real slow lately.

Probably because firefox sucks.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

no, i'm talking about over the past 2 months... and i recently re-installed Vista U 64 cause of a OS drive

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

MS fucking with Firefox? Give me a break, Firefox has been slow for over 2 years. The project started as a nice, fast browser but has turned into a bloated mess. Put away the tin foil.

 

[techs]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
Man, Fire Fox has become real slow lately. I don't think its the web or the servers hosting the sights, i think the big Microsoft is screwing Fire Fox in order to make people switch from it back to IE

Welcome to 1998. I, and many like me, are convinced MS screwed with Netscape to kill it.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

GodlessAstronomer - YOU'RE FIRED

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
GodlessAstronomer - YOU'RE FIRED

im only kidding - sorry forgot to put the

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
Man, Fire Fox has become real slow lately. I don't think its the web or the servers hosting the sights, i think the big Microsoft is screwing Fire Fox in order to make people switch from it back to IE

What evidence do you have to support your theory?

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
no, i'm talking about over the past 2 months... and i recently re-installed Vista U 64 cause of a OS drive

You had to reinstall because of an Operating System drive?

Willing to bet money JujuFish was right.

 

[videogames101]

Firefox has become bloated, it's only worth using for some of the 3rd party add-ons. Try chrome for a lightweight browser.

 

[Quiksilver]

Originally posted by: JujuFish
PEBKAC.

This here.

As it works fine for me and my system is a little over 7 years old now. Hell, it even runs on a crappy pos Dell that almost 9 years old with 256MB fine too. Works even better if you tweak a few things in about:config and slap on some add-ons.

 

[sandorski]

Originally posted by: JujuFish
PEBKAC.

this

It's working fine for me. Perhaps you installed a Plugin that's not playing nice.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
no, i'm talking about over the past 2 months... and i recently re-installed Vista U 64 cause of a OS drive

You had to reinstall because of an Operating System drive?

Willing to bet money JujuFish was right.

NO. It was slow before. And after I switched my old 36g Ultra 320 SCSI drive to this 300g V-Raptor, its the same... clean install, no addons...

 

[xanis]

On a slightly related note, I just installed Safari 4 under and it's pretty damn fast. Scored a 100/100 on the Acid3 test too.

 

[herkulease]

Maybe you're just imagining it. that or there are some issues with your connection in your area.

worst case post up the problem sites and we'll see.

If microsoft wanted to screw with firefox why would they want till now?

 

[Nik]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
no, i'm talking about over the past 2 months... and i recently re-installed Vista U 64 cause of a OS drive

You had to reinstall because of an Operating System drive?

Willing to bet money JujuFish was right.

NO. It was slow before. And after I switched my old 36g Ultra 320 SCSI drive to this 300g V-Raptor, its the same... clean install, no addons...

1) Firefox IS slow. It has been since whatever version was right before 2.0 and will just keep getting slower with all the junk they keep dumping into it.

2) You have SCSI hardware and you can't figure out why FF is slow?

You still have yet to provide evidence to show that Microsoft is deliberately sabotaging Firefox to drive people back to IE. You fail. Box up your computer and return it to the store. Please.

 

[Jeff7]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
no, i'm talking about over the past 2 months... and i recently re-installed Vista U 64 cause of a OS drive

Profile says you're in Ohio.

TimeWarnerCable, or RoadRunner internet, perhaps?

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
no, i'm talking about over the past 2 months... and i recently re-installed Vista U 64 cause of a OS drive

You had to reinstall because of an Operating System drive?

Willing to bet money JujuFish was right.

NO. It was slow before. And after I switched my old 36g Ultra 320 SCSI drive to this 300g V-Raptor, its the same... clean install, no addons...

You fail. Box up your computer and return it to the store. Please.

Absolutely!

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Ok, Im out - no need to continue my little rant