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Is it just me or is Firefox just garbage these days?

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4.0 I thought was fairly buggy, however since 5.0 and newer it's stable for me. Been using 7.0 since the release and it's never crashed. The flash plugin has crashed but firefox itself has not.
 
CHrome just feels more seemless and faster to me nowadays than FF. IE9 isnt too bad but it has too many cons for me.
 
Firefox has always been known to take more and more RAM. Nonetheless, I find that I've never had a problem with that ever since I've had 4GB of RAM. If you're running a system that uses most of its RAM just with Windows and a few programs running, then Firefox's memory usage might be an issue for you.

Otherwise, it's probably more about the content the open tabs are viewing, the add-ons being used, etc.

A fresh uninstall/reinstall of latest build and check the usage as you add each add-on.... probably the easiest way to pinpoint the issue.
 
I adopted Firefox because IE lacked alot of common sense things like noScript. I adopted Firefox and until there is a reason to change (performance is a non reason to me), I will remain a Firefox user.

At work I am forced to use the latest version of IE for "security reasons". I find it to be total crap. I could care less about a smaller foot print. I've had to many instances of non responsiveness for me to want it. FWIW: 1 year old workstation at work (insane specs) w/ IE. 2 year old $400 laptop at home running firefox. I'll take my laptop for web browsing any day.
 
Works like a charm on my system; stable, fast, and light years beyond IE9 (what else is new?). Yes, it still eats a chunk of RAM, but that's about the cheapest upgrade you can do on your system these days.
 
jhansman said:
Works like a charm on my system; stable, fast, and light years beyond IE9 (what else is new?). Yes, it still eats a chunk of RAM, but that's about the cheapest upgrade you can do on your system these days.
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As a software engineer, I cn tell you that there is a simle trade off:

1) more memory, better performance
2) less memory, worse performance

I'm even using a 3rd party product at work and we were told that hey tried to optimize things within reason of expected hardware specs. They decided on fast reads, slow writes which is a good balance for the product. But with less memory, everything about it would suck, With more memory, it would be like greased lightening. The memory issues are probably exponential in nature thought. we'd need a 10x increase in memory on the server for 2x performance (guessing).
 
its been garbage for a long time.

couple hundred meg i don't really care, but it doesn't let you find out which tab is misbehaving like chrome does with its own task manager.
 
chrome runs WAY faster, on every system I'm tried (especially older ones) but I guess some people like firefox if they need specific add ons or plugins? I don't even bother installing it anymore.
 
No one cares how fast a browser is. There all to close to even care. What difference does it make if one loads a website in 1 second less than the other or even .5 seconds less?
 
strange, I haven't see memory hogs in several, several versions. I usually keep mine open with ~4 tabs and I never see giant leaks. right now I"m sitting at ~300 megs, which is about the norm for me. I'd recommend uninstalling and re-downloading it. I really haven't been following it too much, but how large is your plug-in container running at?
 
No crash or memory-eating problems here.

I upgraded a friend from 3.x to 7.x, and he says FF is a lot slower to render some of his sites. Which seems true to me. FF has been getting slightly slower than it used to be.
 
Lol, even steve gibson slammed it in the last security now podcast.

I don't think opera is slow, i just don't use it much even though I have every browser installed. sometimes its nice to separate things though, like another gmail account to a different browser.
 
Overall opera is very fast for me but it is slower than firefox in gmail on the same machine.

Also, i have never noticed any slowness after going from 3.x to 7. That is odd, it may be certain sites??
 
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