Flakey Firefox Finally Fails..

[JasonBz]

My Firefox seems to have given up the ghost, after being a bit slow for a while.

This isn't a request for  help, I just wonder if other peeps find (as I have before) that FF eventually seems to "break"

[Newportnobby]

I never have liked Firefox and would even go back to IE rather than use it.

[Bealman]

I use it on my laptop all the time, and so far (touch wood) no problems.

[dannyboy]

Up until just before Christmas, I used Chrome and then it started giving me a few problems. Things like being intermittently slow or refusing to load some sites. I then switched to Firefox and - no problems  . Things are starting to switch round now in as much as usually I have to tell FF to load twice before it will do anything and then it can be slow  . So now, I am back to Chrome for most of my 'internetting'. I liken 'computering' to baking a cake. You have your computer, (oven), with all its different settings and you have your ingredients for the recipe, (the computer settings). Once you adjust a setting, be it with the oven or the recipe, the cake is not the same.  A lot of time when there is a Windows - or other - update, a setting somewhere changes. 

[Bealman]

Interesting analogy!

[themadhippy]

no problems here,the cynical me says its something the o/s developers have introduced as a "feature" so more people move away from 3rd party browsers

[pctrainman]

I've always found that Browsers tend to give problems when an operating system is tired and getting old but not in the sense that you'd want to Upgrade ? to the appalling Win8 8.1 or 10 but in the sense that you should always start off a cleanly installed O/S by taking a system image of the clean install and all updates and then take a 2nd system image of your system once you have all your favourite programs installed and you've tweaked it to your liking , in this way you can easily and quickly replace a damaged or Corrupted O/S with a nice clean one which is all ready to Rock and Roll.

[Izzy]

 
I have a Win 7 laptop on which both FF and thunderbird run fine and once I got used to them now prefer them to anything else. Yet on my wife's Win 8.1 she finds constant issues with both, won't load/run/freeze etc.

I am sure as has been said that the constant 'updates/upgrades' we are subjected to affect some O/S in differing ways giving rise to these incompatiblities.

Izzy

[Railwaygun]

it may be worth resetting firefox

How do I reset Firefox back to default?
Firefox

    Open the Firefox browser.
    On the address field, type in about:support and hit Enter.
    Click Reset Firefox button.
    A window will appear showing the details of this action.
    Click Reset Firefox button.

[DELETED]

My Firefox threw a wobbly maybe last week of December.  Had to recover / re-install the whole thing and start from scratch but didn't take too long to sort.  That's about the only major glitch I've ever had.  I find the benefits of Firefox far outweigh any drawbacks -the add-ons such as Add Block Plus are a major plus   I'd never go back to anything else -Microsoft's latest offerings are awful and I can't get on any better with anything else.

I'm windows 8.1 on my main home laptop and windows 10 on the desktop at work.  For me I'd say it's all gone progressively down hill for Microsoft after XP.  I don't think anything works so well now.  There seems to be minor glitches with everything after a Microsoft update these days -and they update way more than I ever remember!

I'd stick with Firefox.  It was relatively quick and easy to re-do mine a few weeks ago

[keithfre]

I find the benefits of Firefox far outweigh any drawbacks -the add-ons such as Add Block Plus are a major plus  

For me I'd say it's all gone progressively down hill for Microsoft after XP.

Agreed on both counts. I've been using FF since it came out (still on XP!).

[Lankyman]

I use Firefox on all my devices and love it. It has never given me a problem and I feel so much safer and not pestered with incessant ads. I will never use any Microsoft browser ever again after all the troubles I have had in the past.

Ron

[DELETED]

I find the benefits of Firefox far outweigh any drawbacks -the add-ons such as Add Block Plus are a major plus  

For me I'd say it's all gone progressively down hill for Microsoft after XP.

Agreed on both counts. I've been using FF since it came out (still on XP!).

...I agree but that bit about still being on XP I'm not so sure.  My boss was still running XP until a week ago and we're not surprised how his PC imploded so catastrophically last week and he's now got a new machine.  My old laptop runs XP and I use it almost solely for Autocad -but I don't put it anywhere near the internet these days.

[pctrainman]

You have good reason to be cynical Herzel , I beta tested Vista right through the Betas and just before the first release candidate they had windows 7 , Visatas last Beta was almost indistiguishable from 7 but Microsoft obviously made the decision to put out an inferior product in the believe that they milk people twice with 2 OS's a few years apart and only have one set of developement costs , I was appalled when the release candidates for Vista came out ans I vowed never to use it and never have , the only Windows I use these days is 7 to run Traincontroller ,all my other machines use various Linux flavours as Microsoft lost all of my faith a long time back .

[Bealman]

I'm certainly no Microsoft fan, but oddly have been using Vista on my nine year old laptop (that's what it came with) with no problems!

Having said that, I hope I haven't jinxed meself!!