I've switched back to Chrome

[Septimus Hedgehog]

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.

[hairy_hats]

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.

[Nicholas Marty]

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

[hairy_hats]

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

[cjb110]

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.

[Brisingr Aerowing]

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

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[Behzad Sedighzadeh]

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

[YvesDaoust]

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... :)

[renaultF1]

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.

[Alexander DiMauro]

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.

[Azad R Chouhan]

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

AR Chouhan

[kateg]

I use Chrome almost exclusively. I use Firefox and IE9 for testing web pages, for the most part. There are some websites that function better in Firefox or require IE9 that I access.

[ClockMeister]

Nope. I switched to Chrome about 5 years ago and that's all I've been using. :-)

[SeattleC]

I've been using firefox on Win7 for years with no stability issues whatsoever. I'm running just a few extensions for ad and cookie blocking. So firefox can run stably with reasonable add-ons. What's your environment like?

[RafagaX]

Nope, i use Internet Explorer 10... ;P

CEO at: - Rafaga Systems - Para Facturas - Modern Components for the moment...

[bobc4012]

I have tried every browser under the sun. IMO, Firefox wins. IE - garbage in, garbage out, or in this case, garbage period - most insecure browser on the planet. Firefox on Linux is much better than Firefox on Windows - hmmmm - wonder why! Chrome, too many short comings. I use Palemoon a lot too - faster than Firefox (on which its based), but run into occasional glitches - I do use a lot of add-ons - one reason I prefer Firefox (and Palemoon) over Chrome and IE - better add-ons. I have tried Safari and am not impressed at all - I put it in the same class as IE ((which can be the worse browser on the internet), however, it may be more secure than IE and not a million patches a month (I know, I am exaggerating - but not far from the truth with security patches coming every week along with the rest of Windows 7 - so much for being more secure). Other browsers I have tried are Firefox based. I do like the array of add-ons with Firefox. Rarely run into one that doesn't work or screw things up. Chrome is another story - while there are a large number, most are crapola IMO. The few that I would have liked to use don't work all that well and, in some cases, not at all. I do like to get into the guts of things at times and Firefox lets me do that better than the others. Oh, left off Opera - which is also good - better than Chrome - although recent versions have left me wondering!

[C War]

I used Chrome early on, then decided it wasn't mature enough (I'm a JavaScript dev, so I see some things that others don't), and I went back to FF. But FF has just been a POS lately, and is pretty much intolerable. Chrome, on the other hand, really nailed some things down as of late, and I'm back on it. Chrome still has some annoying behaviors, though, such as dropping asynchronous JavaScript (AJAX) requests before the response actually comes back. That's NOT what asynchronous is supposed to mean. They consider that a feature, and not a bug. But they do it that way because they have no other way to be "asynchronous", allowing the JavaScript thread to do other things while waiting for the response. So instead, you have to jump through hoops to make it work correctly. But for general usage, far better. Current pref order for the big three is Chrome, IE10, FF.