Anyone else starting to find Firefox a bit tedious?

cit_k

Dont seem to have any problems with firefox, its certainly not as lean as it used to be, but then again, thats probably more down to all the bad javascript/flash stuff many websites are filled with.

dixiebb

cit_k wrote: »

Dont seem to have any problems with firefox, its certainly not as lean as it used to be, but then again, thats probably more down to all the bad javascript/flash stuff many websites are filled with.

yeah, sooner we move -- en masse i mean ! -- to html5, the better :cool::A

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5

PasturesNew

I use Firefox. Hate it. I think I started using it because I hated IE.

Flash kills my PC, which is old and cheap.

Firefox can take almost a minute to load.

Often when opening Firefox after I've been using it and have just closed all my windows, I have to Ctrl-Alt-Del and search through/remove any firefox.exe files that are still running - and plugin-container.exe files.

Darned annoying it is.

I'm going to try the list above from RussJK and see if that improves things.

I can't just ditch FF as I use some nifty addons, such as Property Bee (and even though there's a Chrome alternative for that, it's nowhere near as good). I also like the Colour Picker in FF, which I use about once every 2-3 years, but it's nice that it's there

PasturesNew

RussJK wrote: »

The memory bloat isn't really an issue since I have the memory to spare, so it may as well be used.

From memory, I think I've got 1GB. Certainly no more than that.

dixiebb

PasturesNew wrote: »

I use Firefox. Hate it. I think I started using it because I hated IE.

Flash kills my PC, which is old and cheap.

Firefox can take almost a minute to load.

Often when opening Firefox after I've been using it and have just closed all my windows, I have to Ctrl-Alt-Del and search through/remove any firefox.exe files that are still running - and plugin-container.exe files.

Darned annoying it is.

I'm going to try the list above from RussJK and see if that improves things.

I can't just ditch FF as I use some nifty addons, such as Property Bee (and even though there's a Chrome alternative for that, it's nowhere near as good). I also like the Colour Picker in FF, which I use about once every 2-3 years, but it's nice that it's there

I even find the latest version 4 update slow ! Try Opera perhaps -- very fast and very lean :cool:

RussJK

Might also be worth working on making the computer a bit faster in general using something like Closed's guide:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2436849

Should be fine even on an XP computer with 1gb RAM, if unnecessary autoruns are disabled.

I have Firefox 4 working quite quickly on my netbook, and is comparable to Opera now. Just yesterday got Firefox working quickly on an old XP desktop PC, a Dell Dimension 3000 with an IDE hard drive. It's as simple as reinstalling without any bloat, and having nothing running at startup except Avira antivir, which I personally find to be lighter than Avast.

Kimberley

After reading this thread i've installed Google Chrome but where are my bookmarks/favourites etc?

OneADay

Kimberley wrote: »

After reading this thread i've installed Google Chrome but where are my bookmarks/favourites etc?

Stuffed under a closet under the invisible menu - or you have not imported them into Chrome from Firefox.

Personally Firefox is better than Chrome (though it helps to have both).

Firefox can leave a process running which is hard to terminate but that only happens when something goes wrong and it is not shutdown properly and windows being what it is does not terminate the process despite using the naff task killer. In Linux systems firefox works better and is generally faster.

spud17

Perhaps we could be getting into a similar situation to that which occurred with Vista.
People had problems with lower spec PCs not delivering, now Firefox has outgrown a typical XP install, here it's working fine with Win7/4Gb ram etc, it even appears to be slightly faster than FF3.

Ducks back below parapet.

somersethillbilly

RussJK wrote: »

Might also be worth working on making the computer a bit faster in general using something like Closed's guide:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2436849

Should be fine even on an XP computer with 1gb RAM, if unnecessary autoruns are disabled.

I have Firefox 4 working quite quickly on my netbook, and is comparable to Opera now. Just yesterday got Firefox working quickly on an old XP desktop PC, a Dell Dimension 3000 with an IDE hard drive. It's as simple as reinstalling without any bloat, and having nothing running at startup except Avira antivir, which I personally find to be lighter than Avast.

Ditto....I set up a machine for a friend last week, an old HP Brio with a 1.2 GHz Celeron processor, 512 MB pc133 RAM with a tweaked Netgear DG834G router. Running XP pro (with a few services disabled ) and just Avira running at start up. I was quite impressed, it's not half bad as an internet only machine.