Firefox...the end of an era?

[iamwhatiseem]

I am almost ready to give up on Firefox.
So many problems in the past year that is beginning to make it a real pain to use.
1) Constant problems with gmail. Not loading the page, taking two tries to attach files...not loading all emails everytime etc. etc.
2) Constant problems with business websites using ecommerce programs.
3) Not loading a website at all until restarting Firefox.

What gives? I know they have had some significant turnover of some key employees.

 

[Pogo]

I use both FF and Gmail and have had no issues at all.
OTOH I have a very old decrepit laptop as backup, which has lots of issues with Gmail and can only open the simple version. But I'm sure that laptop's got multiple issues.

 

[there4eyeM]

Similar problems.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Have you guys ever tried Opera? It's very similar to Firefox but it's way better.

 

[Pogo]

Have you guys ever tried Opera? It's very similar to Firefox but it's way better.

I started with Opera when I got this computer, just to give something different a chance. Then Chrome, and now back to Firefox (which is most of my history). I don't remember what Opera's issues were but there were reasons I came back to Firefox.

I was on Firefox when it was still Nutscrape Navigalator.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Have you guys ever tried Opera? It's very similar to Firefox but it's way better.

I started with Opera when I got this computer, just to give something different a chance. Then Chrome, and now back to Firefox (which is most of my history). I don't remember what Opera's issues were but there were reasons I came back to Firefox.

I was on Firefox when it was still Nutscrape Navigalator.

I used Firefox for years. I switched to Chrome but I forget why. I think it might've been that the search bar defaulted to Yahoo and I couldn't figure out how to change it back to google.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

Have you guys ever tried Opera? It's very similar to Firefox but it's way better.

I started with Opera when I got this computer, just to give something different a chance. Then Chrome, and now back to Firefox (which is most of my history). I don't remember what Opera's issues were but there were reasons I came back to Firefox.

I was on Firefox when it was still Nutscrape Navigalator.

I used Firefox for years. I switched to Chrome but I forget why. I think it might've been that the search bar defaulted to Yahoo and I couldn't figure out how to change it back to google.

BINGO...I hate Yahoo.
It is the worst search engine on the planet...and it isn't that you can't figure it out...FF removed Google as a search bar option.

 

[occupied]

If your browser is unstable blame Adobe Flash. I wish to God there was an alternative to their shit. Get flashblocker, it helps.

 

[Pogo]

Have you guys ever tried Opera? It's very similar to Firefox but it's way better.

I started with Opera when I got this computer, just to give something different a chance. Then Chrome, and now back to Firefox (which is most of my history). I don't remember what Opera's issues were but there were reasons I came back to Firefox.

I was on Firefox when it was still Nutscrape Navigalator.

I used Firefox for years. I switched to Chrome but I forget why. I think it might've been that the search bar defaulted to Yahoo and I couldn't figure out how to change it back to google.

Oh I got that recently, it's happened more than once. In Firefox you go Options > Search > Default Search Engine and change it back.

 

[P F Tinmore]

If your browser is unstable blame Adobe Flash. I wish to God there was an alternative to their shit. Get flashblocker, it helps.

Youtube is moving to HTML5. It is not the memory hog that Flash is. I have had flash go past 1 gig of memory and I am not even using it.

 

[Moonglow]

There is a lot of conflict with Java script being used on these web surfers,in fact many are starting to drop Java script all together..

 

[Bleipriester]

Have you guys ever tried Opera? It's very similar to Firefox but it's way better.

I started with Opera when I got this computer, just to give something different a chance. Then Chrome, and now back to Firefox (which is most of my history). I don't remember what Opera's issues were but there were reasons I came back to Firefox.

I was on Firefox when it was still Nutscrape Navigalator.

I used Firefox for years. I switched to Chrome but I forget why. I think it might've been that the search bar defaulted to Yahoo and I couldn't figure out how to change it back to google.

BINGO...I hate Yahoo.
It is the worst search engine on the planet...and it isn't that you can't figure it out...FF removed Google as a search bar option.

They just changed the default search engine. But not in Europe. It´s still Google here. However, it is easy to choose another default search engine.

 

[AquaAthena]

I am almost ready to give up on Firefox.
So many problems in the past year that is beginning to make it a real pain to use.
1) Constant problems with gmail. Not loading the page, taking two tries to attach files...not loading all emails everytime etc. etc.
2) Constant problems with business websites using ecommerce programs.
3) Not loading a website at all until restarting Firefox.

What gives? I know they have had some significant turnover of some key employees.

Mozilla s Firefox 38 patches 13 security flaws ZDNet

 

[Darkwind]

I am almost ready to give up on Firefox.
So many problems in the past year that is beginning to make it a real pain to use.
1) Constant problems with gmail. Not loading the page, taking two tries to attach files...not loading all emails everytime etc. etc.
2) Constant problems with business websites using ecommerce programs.
3) Not loading a website at all until restarting Firefox.

What gives? I know they have had some significant turnover of some key employees.

You left off their fiasco with flash. I'm on the cusp of uninstalling firefox permanently.

 

[Darkwind]

If your browser is unstable blame Adobe Flash. I wish to God there was an alternative to their shit. Get flashblocker, it helps.

Firefox does not even support Flash anymore. Flash has not worked on my Firefox in over 10 months.

 

[Darkwind]

Have you guys ever tried Opera? It's very similar to Firefox but it's way better.

IN fact, Opera is the CSS gold standard for developers.

 

[Darkwind]

Wow, thought I'd take a look at whats new with Netscape Navigator.

Be afraid. Be very afraid!

 

[Iceweasel]

I mostly use FF under Linux Mint 17.1 and have no issues apart from some videos not playing. I use goole when I'm not using duckduckgo, you just add it to the search engine options and can make it the default. FF ungraded to v38 yesterday.

Opera was very unstable last I tried it. I also often have Chromium running too, I use it for cookie sites and have ad and script blockers on FF with cookies disabled.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

The biggest problem for me is business sites with ecommerce. It takes forever to load pages. Chrome does not have problem.

 

[mamooth]

Firefox does not even support Flash anymore. Flash has not worked on my Firefox in over 10 months.

It's been working for everyone else. I know. A lot of porn sites use Flash. Firefox could never allow Flash to not work.

It sounds like some of you have problems with bad profiles. Over a span of years, crud builds up. To fix:

1. Type "about:support" in the URL bar, hit return.

2. Hit the "Refresh Firefox" button.

Bookmarks will be preserved, but all settings go back to default, and all addons will be nuked. Which is for the best, as bad addons are often the cause of the problems. So you do that, you see if things work, then you start putting the addons back in one at a time.