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Firefox used to be my browser of choice, but now it's the worst of all for me. There are two main problems: 1. Sometimes I start FF and it tells me that its p
by antninja 14y ago
Firefox used to be my browser of choice, but now it's the worst of all for me.
There are two main problems:
1. Sometimes I start FF and it tells me that its process is still running. It happens too often that I close FF and it fails to properly terminate its process. The result is that I can't open FF until I kill it in the task manager.
2. Firefox is the only browser in which Flash crashes. Almost every day I had to search for the "Plugin container for Firefox" in the task manager and manually kill it.
Today the browsers that "just work" are IE9 and Chrome. I can't use Chrome all the time because it doesn't open images in Twitter, probably because images use http and Twitter uses https. Every browser has its own little problems. Those of Firefox are too much for me.
- robin_reala 14y agoSounds like a corrupt profile. If you’re interested in trying to fix it then you could delete your profile and start again (or if you’re running a beta or newer Firefox go to about:support and click on ‘Reset Firefox’).
- shibboleth 14y agoI don't know about that. I get the same issues even with Aurora (as do many of my colleagues).
- aluhut 14y agoI know your problem from 1. but after some time on Chrome (Chromium) I realised that it's faster to kill one FF process instead of killing x chrome processes looking for the right one that is broken and still running after I "closed" the browser. I don't know what it was that crashed my chrome that often. It must have been java or flash because it broke down on pages that are loaded with these. In the end I came back to ff. All my good addons are there, they all work and if it breaks down it's way faster to kill then chrome. Initially I tried chrome because I thought it may eat up less memory but the difference was not really big on all the chrome processes compared to the ff one.
- drhowarddrfine 14y agoIt sounds like you are having issues with your computer. Perhaps you need to take it the the Geek Squad and have them look it over. You can always find someone who has issues with everything. Most people don't have any problems at all.
- kombine 14y agoWell, I also have the same problem with Firefox, where it does not shut itself down properly. But as for Flash, since recently it started consuming up to 300% of the CPU for me on 32 bit Linux. So I would not say that Chrome is all that bug free.