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    LloydA111
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    After using Firefox for maybe 6 or 7 months, I can't cope with it anymore. Always crashing, locking up when switching between tabs if a flash video is playing on one of them. I'm back on Chrome and I have to say, everything feels much more responsive than Firefox. Anyone else noticed this too?

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    • L LloydA111

      After using Firefox for maybe 6 or 7 months, I can't cope with it anymore. Always crashing, locking up when switching between tabs if a flash video is playing on one of them. I'm back on Chrome and I have to say, everything feels much more responsive than Firefox. Anyone else noticed this too?

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      Rajesh R Subramanian
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      I'm seeing that too. Firefox has been a pig lately, and the last couple of updates have probably been the worst. The browser just freezes when I try to switch tabs or open a new tab.

      "Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.

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        I'm seeing that too. Firefox has been a pig lately, and the last couple of updates have probably been the worst. The browser just freezes when I try to switch tabs or open a new tab.

        "Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.

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        M Badger
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        I don't know what it is but FF suffers, in my experience, to a far greater extent from a Windows environment that is full of junk and hasn't been refreshed for a while. Whilst re-installing Windows helps most things, FF in particular benefits from it, almost as much as Windows itself. Why? I have no idea but it seems to work that way. M

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        • L LloydA111

          After using Firefox for maybe 6 or 7 months, I can't cope with it anymore. Always crashing, locking up when switching between tabs if a flash video is playing on one of them. I'm back on Chrome and I have to say, everything feels much more responsive than Firefox. Anyone else noticed this too?

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          Rage
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          I switched about one year ago. I never came back. ( and God knows I have been a fervent FF evangelist before).

          ~RaGE();

          I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

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          • L LloydA111

            After using Firefox for maybe 6 or 7 months, I can't cope with it anymore. Always crashing, locking up when switching between tabs if a flash video is playing on one of them. I'm back on Chrome and I have to say, everything feels much more responsive than Firefox. Anyone else noticed this too?

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            dan sh
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            Haven't used FF for quite a while now. For my personal usage, it's Chrome. For testing web application I work on, IE.

            "Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

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            • L LloydA111

              After using Firefox for maybe 6 or 7 months, I can't cope with it anymore. Always crashing, locking up when switching between tabs if a flash video is playing on one of them. I'm back on Chrome and I have to say, everything feels much more responsive than Firefox. Anyone else noticed this too?

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              peterchen
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              Yes, about two months ago. Since then, Chrome seems to lock up on every page that contains, mentions or 3rd-level-links to something that looks remotely like flash. With the usual workarounds not helping. Posted from IE10

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                Haven't used FF for quite a while now. For my personal usage, it's Chrome. For testing web application I work on, IE.

                "Bastards encourage idiots to use Oracle Forms, Web Forms, Access and a number of other dinky web publishing tolls.", Mycroft Holmes[^]

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                Rage
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                d@nish wrote:

                For testing web application I work on, IE.

                Yeah, better try the worst cases first. :rolleyes:

                ~RaGE();

                I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

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                  Yes, about two months ago. Since then, Chrome seems to lock up on every page that contains, mentions or 3rd-level-links to something that looks remotely like flash. With the usual workarounds not helping. Posted from IE10

                  ORDER BY what user wants

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                  Rage
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                  peterchen wrote:

                  Posted from IE10

                  All IE jokes aside, IE10 is indeed really good. I use it for the non-Chrome compatible sites.

                  ~RaGE();

                  I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb

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                  • L LloydA111

                    After using Firefox for maybe 6 or 7 months, I can't cope with it anymore. Always crashing, locking up when switching between tabs if a flash video is playing on one of them. I'm back on Chrome and I have to say, everything feels much more responsive than Firefox. Anyone else noticed this too?

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                    OriginalGriff
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                    Surprisingly, I've gone the other way - from Chrome to FF. Chrome was giving me intermittent problems when a number of tabs was open - not sure exactly how many, it seemed to vary. New tab opening would take over a minute to load, and Chrome CPU usage > 50%. Same tabs, same page with FF, couple of seconds. I Haven't isolated what it was, or if it was one of their frequent updates, but I'll give it a few weeks and go back, see what happens.

                    The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)

                    "I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
                    "Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt

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                    • L LloydA111

                      After using Firefox for maybe 6 or 7 months, I can't cope with it anymore. Always crashing, locking up when switching between tabs if a flash video is playing on one of them. I'm back on Chrome and I have to say, everything feels much more responsive than Firefox. Anyone else noticed this too?

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                      Septimus Hedgehog
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                      Lloyd, I've been running Fox forever and I've never had a problem. Maybe I'm too lightweight an internet user to push it out too far?

                      If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.

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                      • L LloydA111

                        After using Firefox for maybe 6 or 7 months, I can't cope with it anymore. Always crashing, locking up when switching between tabs if a flash video is playing on one of them. I'm back on Chrome and I have to say, everything feels much more responsive than Firefox. Anyone else noticed this too?

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                        hairy_hats
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                        As a general rule, anyone who has problems with any browser should remove all of their extensions and run it "bare" for a while before blaming the browser itself.

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                          As a general rule, anyone who has problems with any browser should remove all of their extensions and run it "bare" for a while before blaming the browser itself.

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                          Nicholas Marty
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                          Except that Firefox without Extensions/Addons isn't usable? ;P

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                            Except that Firefox without Extensions/Addons isn't usable? ;P

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                            hairy_hats
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                            :laugh: Perhaps! Just saying that people need to point the finger at the correct culprit if they have a problem.

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                            • L LloydA111

                              After using Firefox for maybe 6 or 7 months, I can't cope with it anymore. Always crashing, locking up when switching between tabs if a flash video is playing on one of them. I'm back on Chrome and I have to say, everything feels much more responsive than Firefox. Anyone else noticed this too?

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                              cjb110
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                              Chrome has its issues too, but no where near enough to drag it down enough to make me consider anything else. Plus its issues tend to be short lived given the speed they update it. Couldn't live without the device syncing, or the general syncing, or the speed, or the clean interface.

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                              • L LloydA111

                                After using Firefox for maybe 6 or 7 months, I can't cope with it anymore. Always crashing, locking up when switching between tabs if a flash video is playing on one of them. I'm back on Chrome and I have to say, everything feels much more responsive than Firefox. Anyone else noticed this too?

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                                Brisingr Aerowing
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                                Same. I have FF installed, but only to test web applications and the like.

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                                • L LloydA111

                                  After using Firefox for maybe 6 or 7 months, I can't cope with it anymore. Always crashing, locking up when switching between tabs if a flash video is playing on one of them. I'm back on Chrome and I have to say, everything feels much more responsive than Firefox. Anyone else noticed this too?

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                                  Behzad Sedighzadeh
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                                  And I have recently switched to Maxthon from Chrome. Lots of nice features you wont find elsewhere. And of course really, really very stable browser. In HTML5 test it scores better than Chrome. Everybody should give it a try.

                                  Behzad

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                                  • L LloydA111

                                    After using Firefox for maybe 6 or 7 months, I can't cope with it anymore. Always crashing, locking up when switching between tabs if a flash video is playing on one of them. I'm back on Chrome and I have to say, everything feels much more responsive than Firefox. Anyone else noticed this too?

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                                    YvesDaoust
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                                    It is hard for me to imagine a browser being better or worse than another. I just use them to display web pages. All of them do display web pages. Speed of dislay does not matter, as it is mainly page transfer which is the bottleneck. I don't care about the menus, I don't use them. Even less about the graphical design. I don't see any distinctive feature. Maybe just one: FTP access is a crap under IE and Chrome. I haven't tried with the others... :)

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                                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                      Surprisingly, I've gone the other way - from Chrome to FF. Chrome was giving me intermittent problems when a number of tabs was open - not sure exactly how many, it seemed to vary. New tab opening would take over a minute to load, and Chrome CPU usage > 50%. Same tabs, same page with FF, couple of seconds. I Haven't isolated what it was, or if it was one of their frequent updates, but I'll give it a few weeks and go back, see what happens.

                                      The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)

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                                      renaultF1
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                                      My experience is the same, Chrome taking 100% cpu and after switching to FF two weeks ago the sites that had problems under Chrome are fine with FF.

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                                      • P peterchen

                                        Yes, about two months ago. Since then, Chrome seems to lock up on every page that contains, mentions or 3rd-level-links to something that looks remotely like flash. With the usual workarounds not helping. Posted from IE10

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                                        Alexander DiMauro
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                                        peterchen wrote:

                                        Chrome seems to lock up on every page that contains, mentions or 3rd-level-links to something that looks remotely like flash.

                                        I've noticed this, too. I have a laptop with Windows 8, and Chrome is almost unusable with any video (even YouTube!). It crashes almost every time, after a few minutes. I've had to use Firefox more and more on my laptop. On my desktop (Windows 7), haven't notices as many issues, but it's my work machine, so not watching a lot of videos on there anyway.

                                        I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone - Bjarne Stroustrup The world is going to laugh at you anyway, might as well crack the 1st joke! My code has no bugs, it runs exactly as it was written.

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                                        • L LloydA111

                                          After using Firefox for maybe 6 or 7 months, I can't cope with it anymore. Always crashing, locking up when switching between tabs if a flash video is playing on one of them. I'm back on Chrome and I have to say, everything feels much more responsive than Firefox. Anyone else noticed this too?

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                                          Azad R Chouhan
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                                          i am also not using firefox from last one year.. for the same reason. its really embarrassed me :(

                                          AR Chouhan

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