Comments on: Firefox Woes

By: Random Visitor

Random Visitor — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 04:45:45 +0000

I don’t agree.

Maybe you just need to reformat XP - as a 3 month old Windows set up is as good as dead!

I use a 1 gb, 3ghz Toshiba laptop and can have 20+ FF windows open with lots of tabs (testing websites internally and externally) and it rarely crashes.

Even if it does - you auto load the same windows and tabs, unlike IE6 or 7 which just loses it all!

I use XP Pro on a clean install (not the factory set up)

By: Rob Doar

Rob Doar — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:32:51 +0000

I agree… But it is a toss up of adding features that people want, and keeping the lean mean firefox machine.

It still is a billion times better than IE.

By: Kit Kat

Kit Kat — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 16:02:19 +0000

I don’t think Windows XP isn’t the primary culprit. The same thing happens to me as we run Firefox on our Linux box at home.

I hope Phil is right. I want my lean, mean and light Firefox back!

By: Chris Harrison

Chris Harrison — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 17:23:17 +0000

The bloat of Firefox is why I use Camino on my Mac. I have the same issues with Firefox on my WinXP box, but I tolerate them merely because I only use IE if I have to… and the Safari 3 Beta for Win isn’t stable enough for me to use as my primary browser.

By: Phil

Phil — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 01:18:47 +0000

Firefox is always crashing on me or slowing my computer down. At work, if I don’t shut Firefox down at lunch time my afternoon drags on like anything, and not just because it is the afternoon. It crashes a lot these days too.

But, Firefox 3 has just made it to beta (according to a friend who has been following it) and apparently the memory leaks have been part of the development for the new version. Hopefully, soon we will have Firefox running happily without restarts or any other restriction. I don’t know what I’d do without Firefox and its many extensions, so I look forward to version 3 solving its current problems.