View Poll Results: What browser do you use now?

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  • firefox

    36 69.23%
  • ie

    2 3.85%
  • chrome

    7 13.46%
  • safari

    4 7.69%
  • opera

    2 3.85%
  • other

    1 1.92%
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  1. #1
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    Firefox 3.5* is soo slow

    Well, I know it isn't just me. Firefox has got so bloated and slow these last versions. It has got to the point of where someone like us who works on the internet, you can seriously see a productivity decrease. From the random page not found errors, like it isn't connected to the net (but other browsers reach same page fine) to the still even present memory leaks I have decided to give fire fox the boot. The only thing I will miss is the extensions, search plugins and overall features.

    I have now went to chrome. The first few times I tried it, it crashed often but the latest version seems good. I even installed the dev version and it is even faster.

    It is not like I went straight to chrome, i benchmarked and tried them all on various benchmarks, mainly futuremark's peacekeeper and other ones found in google search. Attached are my results for all major browsers.

    What browser do you use and are there any others here who have lost faith in firefox?
    Attached Thumbnails Attached Thumbnails bench.jpg  
    Last edited by jon-f; 10-25-2009 at 11:34 PM.

  2. #2
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    Opera > *

    Firefox renders better than Opera and is more Gmail friendly. Other than that Opera is my preferred browser.
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  3. #3
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    One my work pc I switched over to Chrome. Firefox was just so slow and eating up so much memory. I do not understand how one tab takes 100mb of memory

  4. #4
    After reading this thread I checked my taskmanager and my Firefox that I have been surfing and blogging with for a few hours is using 113mb of memory and the CPU usage fluctuates between 02 and 46 percent. I'm using Windows 7. So yeah I agree it's a bit of a hog but I have 4 gigs of ram and Firefox has been stable for me so I haven't noticed any problems.

  5. #5
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    I've got to agree that Firefox has gotten more slower and resource hungry. I thought it was just me, but I'm glad to know I wasn't going crazy. I use Safari instead sometimes since I'm on a mac.

  6. #6
    Plugins are good on Firefox but Mozilla needs to work on CPU and Speed. Not just adding as many features as it can. Firefox is better than IE but all of my other browsers are faster. Firefox is good for me since I love the extensions and themes that it supports and my computer hardware is not bad either for Firefox currently.

  7. #7
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    Opera uses more CPU and RAM on my laptop than firefox, Chrome is also heavy.
    This fact is, it is not the engines that are using the ram and cpu, its the stupid flash ads, and flash 'features' on many sites. they load up then stay in RAM.

  8. #8
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    Clean firefox only 1 plugin installed.

  9. #9
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    I've moved on entirely from Firefox to Chrome and haven't looked back since.

  10. #10
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    FireFox.
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  11. #11
    The worst is when copying to the clipboard sometimes works, sometimes doesn't, sometimes works from right click on the second try, sometimes works from the edit menu on the second try, and sometimes just won't work at all. Having a select+copy not work the first time, *every* time is a serious slowdown because you don't know until you've switched to the other application, found out that the clipboard is empty, need to switch back, try again, switch again, find out it didn't work again, ad infinitum.

    It is the *only* app that does this. It is especially bad when the operation required is "copy link location" or "copy email address".

    It's a steaming pile of "standards compliant" doo-doo.

    On the other hand, IE6 just works. Every time.
    Last edited by plumsauce; 10-26-2009 at 03:28 AM.
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  12. #12
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    use firefox latest version so far never have any problem

  13. #13
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    I am using the older version of FF and IE

  14. #14
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    I noticed the performance drop, and several bugs too.
    First run becomes very slow, and usually get 1~1.5 minutes of "Not Responding" status.

    addition to copy/paste bug as plumsauce mentioned, it randomly stops auto-filling. I need to restart the FF every time.
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  15. #15
    Yes, the latest stable version of firefox is running just fine with me

    @BurakUeda try to use firetune and speedyfox for better performance

  16. #16
    Firefox seems good to me? 134MB in the taskman, but I have 16 tabs open and I never "quit" unless it crashes.

  17. #17
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    Firefox runs fine for me. I'm happy with it.

  18. #18
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    Used Chrome since it was released, haven't looked back. After I used Chrome I just found every other browser slow.

  19. #19
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    If there was an easy way of getting rid of adverts in Chrome I might use it, but it's Firefox for me as it stands.

  20. #20
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    Firefox often hang for me, especially when opening multiple tabs..

  21. #21
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    I got 1366 for my FF benchmark, using the link in your screenshot.

  22. #22
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    4 tabs, using 103000k of mem. Not really a biggie for me.

  23. #23
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    I know what some people are saying about FireFox 3.5. It was a step forward but also a step backward in the sense of the "bloatware" and speed elements.

    I may also be looking more closely at Opera.

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  24. #24
    I use Conkeror with Xulrunner 1.9.2 and it's much faster than 1.9.1 (not to talk about 1.9.0). So Firefox will be faster in the 3.6 release which will be based on Xulrunner 1.9.2. I made a little benchmark a while ago in Peacekeeper:

    conkeror, Xulrunner 1.9.3: 767, 810, 820, 808, 823 = 805,6
    conkeror, Xulrunner 1.9.2: 804, 806, 802, 803, 807 = 804,4
    conkeror, Xulrunner 1.9.1: 598, 596, 604 = 599,33
    conkeror, Xulrunner 1.9.0: 331
    Chromium : 1208, 1218, 1201 = 1209

    1.9.3: backend in FF 3.7
    1.9.2: backend in FF 3.6
    1.9.1: backend in FF 3.5
    1.9.0: backend in FF 3.0

    The figures is horrible, I know (benchmark was made on a AMD Duron 1800) but the proportional speed measurements should be valid.

  25. #25
    Firefox 3.5 and over 200 tabs open, using a total of 800++ mb of memory. ;D Well it is a bit slow but then I remember what Netscape Communicator was like at times and then, FF seems a lot faster again. ;D

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