Has Anyone Else Given Up On Firefox?

[AB Editor]

Afternoon,

I used to quite like Firefox. But with the recent caching issues we've been having, and it's new found ability to grind to a halt and steal ALL available memory I'm at a point where I am seriously considering uninstalling it entirely. If it wasn't for the 15% of you who use it on here, I would!

Recently the problems have got really bad with me closing a tab and the label and tab disappearing, but the space where it was remaining. I have a gap-toothed Firefox.

Anyone else want to moan about FF?

Chrome has its issues, but it does have this advantage: https://chrome.google...cnhoeaanfpkfachlfclli

[ChuckFickens]

I'm going to make my browser report something really obscure, just so you have a small percentage showing as something like IE2.0 :)

[HowardKennitby]

I heard about the problems before I got the nag screen about FF12 so stayed with FF11. I do not have any noticeable problems.

[AB Editor]

Why not just ChuckFickens 3.0? Feel free to send me coded messages through your user agent settings :)

"I heard about the problems before I got the nag screen about FF12 so stayed with FF11. I do not have any noticeable problems."

^^ Show off :)

[JoolsTwo]

I've switched to Google Chrome and I find it much better.

[jno]

so actually number 2 is Safari, which I've never even heard of, and Firefox is near bottom? So much for the cult of Mozilla, then.

[bibblebub]

I've posted this in Opera just to give its numbers a boost

[AB Editor]

"I've posted this in Opera just to give its numbers a boost "

LoL, it has 0.61%

"I've switched to Google Chrome and I find it much better."

Have you tried our lovely extension?

"so actually number 2 is Safari, which I've never even heard of, and Firefox is near bottom? So much for the cult of Mozilla, then."

Safari is Apple's main browser. As noted above, the Safari stats are mostly Ipad/Iphones and only a small percentage use it elsewhere. About 25% of our traffic is mobile, and most of that is Safari on iphones.

[MarkRae]

I used FireFox exclusively until that happy day when Google Chrome first appeared.

[joko]

evian...if you are on a laptop it is probably because your wrist or arm is touching areas around the outside of the touchpad - it can be a bit too sensitive and causes the cursor to move as you say

[joko]

i have tried chrome and it seemed to crash constantly if i had firefox installed as well and tried to use it simutaneously.

[snags]

I have no problems with AB and FF, possibly because I'm using the Mac version? It is memory hungry though.

[Robinia]

I had nothing but trouble on this site with IE...I've recently changed computers to one which has Firefox and it's fantastic up to now.

[Mick-Talbot]

I now use safari even when on the desktop or laptop.
I like IE but it has a habit of freezing, something I haven't experienced on safari.

[ejayjay]

I am on IE7-should I be updating? What are the pros and cons of so doing

[ChuckFickens]

"I am on IE7-should I be updating?"

That depends on which version of windows you have, if you have XP then ie7 is the latest version you can install.

[ejayjay]

Thanks Chuck- I AM on XP so that answers my question.

[AB Editor]

I found Safari quite unusable last time I tried. Do you use it on XP?

[Ellipsis]

FFAB. Thunderbirds are ... er, "cached"???

[AB Editor]

Isn't IE8 the latest version for XP?

[hc4361]

I switched to Chrome this week after using FF for years.