FireFox Review...

GerardWon

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FF fucking BLOWS.

*It knocks out the sound card when using Youtube.
*When I shut down the system half the time the mouse won't load.
*On a forum like WF the mouse works at about half speed.
*Last week I had to load a mirror image of my drive, cause it crashed a startup program -- wouldn't load it at all.

I have a 8 month old laptop and I run win 7.

FUCK FUCKING FIREFOX!

I'm GerardWon and I approve this rant.
 
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works fine for me

major possibility-
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Umm, yea - I would have to believe its something with your install and/or plugins and/or windows software interfering (antivirus). The millions of us on Win7 FF having no issues might disagree.
 
Something tells me you're running on Windows 98. Works fast on my computer, and I got a shit load of games/video designing programs/graphic designing programs/audio producing software/seo tools/videos and a ton of other memory consuming shits.
 
If there are plugins you only use for certain things or at certain times, try splitting them up across several different profiles.

Gonna try FF4 beta, but I've been using Opera more lately.
 
jryan21 said:
Gonna try FF4 beta
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I've been using FF4 Beta for a few weeks now and the only two issues I seem to have running on a shit computer with Win7 is that its slow when you first start the program and when you have a lot of tabs open (Especially video tabs) the program doesn't like to click to the next tab.

However those issues alone may be an issue not so much with FireFox but more with my computer.

NEED MORE RAM...Only have 2GiGs :( I remember when 2Gigs of RAM was top of the line...so sad lol.
 
Aequitas said:
I've been using FF4 Beta for a few weeks now and the only two issues I seem to have running on a shit computer with Win7 is that its slow when you first start the program and when you have a lot of tabs open (Especially video tabs) the program doesn't like to click to the next tab.

However those issues alone may be an issue not so much with FireFox but more with my computer.

NEED MORE RAM...Only have 2GiGs :( I remember when 2Gigs of RAM was top of the line...so sad lol.
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shitty part is that win7 32bit only supports like 3.75Gigs of ram
 
FF sucks cock, if it wasn't for the fucking plugins I'd go back to IE or move to Chrome. FF is a piece of shit browser. Soon as Chrome gets up to par with plugin selection, I'm fuckin gone.

I have 16GB of fucking DDR3 so I'm now able to basically power through the memory leak/hog issue that would bring my system to a creep before.

FF has had a horrific memory leak since the beginning that they either refuse to fix, or can't fix. Why on Earth they wouldn't fix such a glaring issue is beyond me. I can only assume its some type of major fault with the core code of the browser...I can't think of any other reason it wouldn't have been fixed by now.
 
GerardWon said:
FF fucking BLOWS.

*It knocks out the sound card when using Youtube.
*When I shut down the system half the time the mouse won't load.
*On a forum like WF the mouse works at about half speed.
*Last week I had to load a mirror image of my drive, cause it crashed a startup program -- wouldn't load it at all.

I have a 8 month old laptop and I run win 7.

FUCK FUCKING FIREFOX!

I'm GerardWon and I approve this rant.
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you probably have other issues too, and I would suggest uninstalling a lot of the plugins... most are horrible and not optimized
 
I do a good deal of web dev work and have switched to chrome for everything but said work. For browsing, Chrome is hands down the best browser. For any coding/research/analysis, just open up firefox. Get an ssd so it loads fast
 
jgrim said:
FF4 Beta doesn't support firebug yet :( or else I'd give it a try. Similar to chrome in look. I uninstalled it right after I saw firebug was disabled.
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Speaking of Firebug and I should of remembered which domain it was and should of took a screenshot.

But I was on one of Google's sites a few weeks back and I got an error message that came up saying this site doesn't want to display bla bla bla try disabling your firebug plugin.

I was like hmm wait a minute how did you know I was using Firebug or were u just taking a shot in the dark on that one.

Haha figured because I have Firebug and Google's Pagespeed installed the PageSpeed plugin must send some data back to Google about FireBug.
 
Aequitas said:
Speaking of Firebug and I should of remembered which domain it was and should of took a screenshot.

But I was on one of Google's sites a few weeks back and I got an error message that came up saying this site doesn't want to display bla bla bla try disabling your firebug plugin.

I was like hmm wait a minute how did you know I was using Firebug or were u just taking a shot in the dark on that one.

Haha figured because I have Firebug and Google's Pagespeed installed the PageSpeed plugin must send some data back to Google about FireBug.
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Firebug uses Javascript and is loaded in the DOM... I'm sure there is a way to detect if the Firebug object is available.

A while back I worked on a site that detected browser plugins installed in order to check which video playback file to load. This was before video players were flash driven.

When there is a will, usually there is a way. But it's weird how they'd block the use of firebug on one of their sites...
 
Firefox isn't that bad and doesn't slow me down. My main issue is with having to close my browser to update it. It needs to model Chrome in that updates are inline and you don't need to exit the browser to install them.

As far as your speed is concerned, it's likely that you have conflicting software running in the background. I took a look through my automatic startup task list (not startup programs, but the actual tasks that you need to go to through Control Panel >> Administrative Tools >> Services) and noticed a lot of programs that shouldn't be running on startup; such as Google's list, iTunes, and a host of other Windows programs that were not necessary since they never get used, but seemed to be accessing the same resources that Firefox uses.

Just look through your Automatic startups and turn them to Manual, I can't think of all of them off the top of my head, but they are pretty easy to spot if you read the descriptions.

Other than that, check your Firewall and Antivirus. Kasperksy and Eset are the best to use for not having your browser be super slow while still getting flawless protection.

If you still have issues, then get Chromium. It's Chrome without the Google. There's Firebug and SEO tools for it, so you really don't miss out on much.
 
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