Sick of f'ing fire fox

[fractionMan]

I've made the switch to Opera and I'm glad I did. It renders much quicker, I have more screen and the mouse gestures are great. Top banana all round really.

 

[jæd]

I used firefox for years but the last few releases have been truly awful.Firefox used to crash and lose bookmarks quite regular for me and it just got too much to bother with.I started using Opera and it's the best I've used in 10 years of internet.I know a lot of people who won't have a word said against firefox but i think that its mainly an anti microsoft thing more than because it's a great browser.I find Opera far more easy to configure than firefox too.
Oh and the cache works properly in Opera too!

Strange... I tried Opera when the company released free serial numbers on its 10th borthday. Used it as my home and work browser for over a week and a half and then switched back to firefox. I was impressed by the speed of it, as well as that I could customise Opera so that chrome took up very little screen space.

But, in the end I've gone back to Firefox as it kept on losing cookies. I would log into various forums. And even though I had "remember me" I had to log into them *again*. Annoying. That and it "froze" every day or so meaning I had to restart it.

My main problem with Firefox is that it eats memory and needs to be restarted every week or so. (I'm on Linux and I restart my computer every six months or so when it gets unplugged by clueless cleaners) But using the new Firefox 1.5 beta this has been fixed. (But it does seem to have problems now with Google Maps...)

 

[jæd]

I've grown increasingly sick of it...

• Hogging system resources
• A crashed window taking all other Firefox windows with it
• Taking an age to start up after log on

All that in mind, it's additional features edge it ahead of IE.

Try the new beta -- they seem to have fixed the system resources/crashing problem.

 

[Brainaddict]

I use a slow pentium II laptop and found firefox completely unusable due to slowness. Had to go back to IE

Edit: is it worth trying opera on a slow computer?

 

[gentlegreen]

Probably and without pointing to a better alternative, does anyone really want to go back to IE??

Never left it and I've been surfing since UNIX FTP, Lynx and Gopher days - I used Netscape until IE caught up and have had zero problems - straight out the box it displays every kind of webpage, plays every kind of media - and I don't waste resources running antivirus or antispamware and have never caught anything nasty.

Maybe someone could point me to one URL which will cause trouble for IE6 ?
(I'm serious about this because I work in IT support - albeit low level)

 

[mwgdrwg]

Never left it and I've been surfing since UNIX FTP, Lynx and Gopher days - I used Netscape until IE caught up and have had zero problems - straight out the box it displays every kind of webpage, plays every kind of media - and I don't waste resources running antivirus or antispamware and have never caught anything nasty.

Maybe someone could point me to one URL which will cause trouble for IE6 ?
(I'm serious about this because I work in IT support - albeit low level)

Fair enough, but once I discovered the joys of tabbed browsing and mouse gestures i could never go back.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Fair enough, but once I discovered the joys of tabbed browsing and mouse gestures i could never go back.

Not too mention Gmail notifier, built RSS reading, tons of themes...

 

[magneze]

Try the new beta -- they seem to have fixed the system resources/crashing problem.

I'd be careful of doing this to be honest. Most extensions don't work with the 1.5 beta. I installed it and was pretty impressed with what they'd done. However, the lack of any working extensions really got on my tits.

 

[Structaural]

Yeah, I was annoyed when most of my extensions stopped working -especially the tweak internet settings and the iTunes controller.

The gestures extension is sweet, though.

I love Firefox other than when I access Urban75 - then everything corrupts - corrupt Cache file?:

http://www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=130533