Firefox issues

Firefox started giving me grief about a month back -- switched to Chrome and haven't looked back.

Chrome?

Google Chrome browser = http://www.google.com/chrome

I'm finding certain things about Chrome annoying, too. still haven't found a worthy 'noscript' replacement, and the options are too sparse... I went to some site a few days ago and the page had embedded sound which just started blaring out of my speakers. I can't remember the last time that happened with Firefox+Adblocker+noscript.

yeah chrome is not chunky enough. even aesthetically i appreciate the big button ie6ishness still native to ff and thats before i weigh it down with toolbars. i use chrome to look at long ilx threads and play flash pacman

I just tried reinstalling Firefox and it's working fine now. I don't know what happened yesterday. Maybe I accidentally interrupted the complete installation, but I'm not sure how I could have done that.

Teblo's Shoetie browser is the best way to go. It makes Opera look the the J. Geils Band of browsers. I think Google has done some weird thing to block all references to it, though, so if you're running Chrome (or maybe even FF?) you can't even link to their website.

Tell us how to find it then. Are either of the two words spelled correctly?

how do we shoetie browser

teblo's shoetie is obsolete shite

...almost a palindrome.

yeah, that was beautiful, stet... but the idea that it's somehow obsolete is severely misguided. they just did a summer equinox update that would probably knock your socks off.

i found out about the browser through a promotion that Hi-C brand soft drinks were running.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9178578/Mozilla_updates_Firefox_to_crush_Farmville_complaints

Trying out the 4.0 beta (or at least, the latest Minefield which is due to be the beta this week). It feels fast -- not as fast as Safari/Chrome in the benchmarks, but much faster than FF3.

WTF is plugin-container.exe and why does it try and eat all my RAM?

It runs the plug-ins, like Flash. Does it actually use any more RAM than the old way?

Seems to. The computer is freezing for minutes at a time if I go on a thread with a bunch of Youtube embeds for example. I know my puter's getting old but this seems to be a last couple of months thing.

type about:config in the address bar and set all of these to false

dom.ipc.plugins.enabled;false
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npctrl.dll;true
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npqtplugin.dll;true
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.npswf32.dll;true
dom.ipc.plugins.enabled.nptest.dll;true

that disables plugin container but 3.64 still seems slow

Okay giving that a spin, cheers.

4.0 beta's a dog on Mac. Don't bother yet if you need any kind of stability.

WTF is plugin-container.exe and why does it try and eat all my RAM?

― The Birdman of Alcaraz (Noodle Vague), Monday, July 5, 2010 12:31 AM (Yesterday)

I am having the same exact problem. It comes out of nowhere and eats it all up. I can't even load up the ilm tracks thread because of it. I just tried the fix that nakhchivan suggested -- I hope it works. This browser just eats up too much ram, and I'm getting tired of it.

ubuntu updated firefox today and it went back to 'open tab next to current tab'. grrr.

about:config
browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent = false

Just upgraded my Firefox and now nothing is loading at all. Nice work.

― _Rudipherous_, Sunday, 27 June 2010 17:22 (1 month ago) Bookmark

Not quite nothing, but I'm getting a load of misdirects and unsafe site messages on sites that are working fine with Chrome. For instance, late rooms, and, ironically, http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ - ha!

Anyone using Firefox Sync yet?

uhhh why has the character encoding on firefox suddenly gone nuts for me? i DIDN'T CHANGE ANYTHING and suddenly there's no text on certain websites, just boxes instead of characters. how do i change it back? and why is it fucking around with me when i DIDN'T CHANGE ANYTHING in the first place?

Anyone using Firefox Sync yet?

been using xmarks forever (does the same thing + cross-browser capability) but when/if they add extension syncing i'm there

Does anyone know if Google Chrome has plugins like Ad Block Plus, NoScript etc? Cos Firefox has been shite for ages now and my colleage reckons he switched to Chrome a while ago and has none of the same issues, i.e. eating up tons of RAM and being incredibly slow. Whenever my laptop slows to a crawl and I run Task Manager it's always bloody Firefox.

yeah, get chrome

OMFG I WANT TO KILL SOMEONE

after weeks of firefox yelling at me to install the new version i downloaded it and now THE FUCKING THING WON'T OPEN. yes i've tried restarting. i click on firefox and it just hangs there beachballing.

I DON'T HAVE THE FUCKING TIME FOR THIS RIGHT NOW WHY DOES THIS ALWAYS HAPPEN WHY DON'T I FUCKING LEARN - NEVER. INSTALL. UPDATES.

oh wait as soon as i posted that it opened

if it takes 20 minutes to open every time out now, my desire to kill people will stand

fuck computers for real

and fuck people who know about them, i'm 100% convinced this is entirely a conspiracy on your part to ruin my life

Mac or PC? As I'm sure has been said somewhere on this thread before, FF is the go-to on PC, but the Mac version is more of a disaster with every update. If you're on a mac, use Safari, or (better yet) Chrome. I'm totally converted to Chrome now.

mac

can't use chrome as it's not compatible w/whatever version i have

don't want to have to get used to safari, just want firefox to FUCKING WORK PROPERLY IS THIS TOO DIFFICULT TO ASK

Sadly, yes. Abandon that hope, is my advice.

i want to be introduced to someone involved in this cunting programme so i can punch them in the face

I HAVE A LOT OF ANGER IN ME THAT I NEED TO TAKE OUT ON SOMEONE RIGHT NOW

i swear down without computer issues i'd be a genuinely chilled person

it still keeps fucking quitting! why fucking update something if you're going to make it worse? WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY

how is it possible to put something this shit out there? are the firefox developers all complete cunts, or just retarded?

SO MUCH ANGER IN ME

obv. a personal vendetta against you -- must be why nobody else is having problems.

Maybe the firefox developers just really love Radiohead.

obv. a personal vendetta against you

i actually genuinely believe this

like i'm not doing anything out of the fucking ordinary so WHY DOESN'T IT JUST FUCKING WORK AND STOP FUCKING ME AROUND WHY WHY WHY

would be easier to get used to Safari tbh.... (fuck a mac personally, but that's just me)

ew

i'm going to try sea monkey

i got used to chrome in the brief period i had it - really liked how light it was. completely sucks that they can't be bothered to make it compatible with this mac version.

also it's such a peeve of mine when people respond to computer issues with 'well PCs are shit!" or "well macs are shit!" - uhhh THAT'S SO HELPFUL

FF4 beta is really not looking good AT ALL yet (ever?).

Flaky and dog-slow it's actaully a regression for me on both machines used it on including home machine.

Was perfectly fine with 3.6 apart from teh occasional crash :(

What specs does your computer have that makes it Chrome incompatible?