[skidz]

web dev toolbar makes it #1 for me!

[ZigPress]

Wow, no-one's mentioned Adblock Plus

If it wasn't for Adblock Plus and the Web Developer extension, I'd switch to Opera in a Flash. FF3 is quite unstable at times.

[djt992]

ZigPress, on Dec 1 2008, 13:55, said:

Wow, no-one's mentioned Adblock Plus

If it wasn't for Adblock Plus and the Web Developer extension, I'd switch to Opera in a Flash. FF3 is quite unstable at times.

How could I forget Adblock Plus and noscript!!

[Ren]

Ben, on Jun 6 2007, 12:39, said:

I like Firefox because of it's versatility and being able to customise it with extenions and add-ons - I would be lost without the developer & Firebug toolbar.

EXACTLY THE SAME REASON! PREACH!

[Sam Christy]

Alexander, on Jun 6 2007, 07:10, said:

Had this bookedmarked for ages, thnking I wouldn't use it but here, check out the link!

http://echo3.net/firefox/?bubbles

Enjoy!

Because... it just is

[brandmantra]

it works fast, add-ons compatible, multiple tabs, that's why I prefer it a lot.

[Thomas]

Because there are a lot of firefox users who make addons. There are thousands available for all sorts of things.

[bocaj]

Yeah the add ons are what makes FF what it is, but it has it's pitfalls.

Memory leaks, a bit sluggish, consumes alot of resources (compared to some).

However it blows IE out the water, and the plugins just make it the most essential browser, a must have in your arsenal. The amount of plugins i have for FF is ridiculous. Although i don't use it for general browsing anymore, just development, and certain sites that don't work with other browsers (like online banking, you'd think with the amount of money they have it'd work in all browsers.... geeeze).

[tigerlabs]

dula72, on Feb 11 2009, 15:11, said:

I think the praises of Firefox are a little overblown. I tried it for about 8 or 9 months and wasn't overly impressed.

That's insane, firefox is the best browser ever made. Period. Try firefox 3.

LINK

[Tajio]

I love Firefox, It's faster than IE, it has awesome Add-ons like Ad-Blocker Plus and more! change over to Firefox NOW!

[bocaj]

But FF is significantly slower than other browsers, say chrome for example.

The memory leaks are still a problem with FF (i have to restart FF every few hours, and it doesn't always terminate itself which mean ctrl alt del. on vista which is a pain).

It has good plugins, actually it has some amazing plugins.

But for general day to day use i don't need all the plugins, FF3 still has some issues that were around in FF1, why aren't they fixed yet?

Personally, i think chrome looks promising if it can get the plugin platform right, and fix some annoying issues. Chrome v2 now supports middle click scrolling (shouldn't that always be there though). Chrome's gonna take a while to properly get off the ground.

I do love alot of things in FF, but after a few months of chrome, it feels so clunky and cluttered, it seems slow.

But i need webdeveloper toolbar, firebug, pixelperfect amongst other things, so FF will always have a use.

[tigerlabs]

bocaj, what your PC specs? I'm curious, because I have a computer that was bought in September 2007 and it runs Firefox 3.0.6 perfectly with absolutely no problems whatsoever.

[bocaj]

quad core 2.8 ghz, 8gb ram, 512mb video ram.

The amount of ram FF takes just increases and increases the longer it's open, until i restart it.

Checked and it's FF v 3.0.6

Quote

Browser:
Chromium 2.0.160.0



Memory:

• Private: 161,976k
  
• Shared: 11,247k
  
• Total: 173,223k

Virtual memory:

• Private: 151,440k
  
• Mapped: 121,020k

Quote

Browser: Firefox 3.0.6

Memory:

• Private: 295,436k
  
• Shared: 12,040k
  
• Total: 307,476k

Virtual Memory:

• Private: 259,384k
  
• Mapped: 31,548k

Taken from chrome stats page, chrome has 9 Tabs open (6 on wdf, one index tab, one on 18185.co.uk and the stats tab).

Firefox has my gmx emails open. Although gmx mail i suspect is probably a bit resource heavy, and it doesn't work in chrome.

But those stats show a good efficiency in chrome, however an unfair comparison.

[tigerlabs]

Funny.. My specs are somewhat lower than yours... AMD Turion 64 x2 (1.9 GHz) and I am not experiencing any of this "Memory Leakage".

What is your OS?

When is the last time you reinstalled your OS?

[bocaj]

Vista, and urrr about 6 months ago.

I googled it, i may check out some of the 'fixes'

http://www.google.co.uk/search?rlz=1C1GGLS...ox+memory+leaks

[tigerlabs]

I'm using XP, vista is to bloated, there's your problem right there.

[bocaj]

haha, vista is ridiculous, i know. But everything else runs fine on vista for me. FF is hardly a demanding app. in heinsight. I can use C4D without too much problems, but after 4 or 5 hours in FF it's lagging my whole pc. Although in saying that... 4 or 5 hours in chrome and it decides to choke, and not load webpages.

Vista takes roughly double xp's resources, with my spec, vista should be able to run a browser fine.

[Josiah]

I can't believe the people who still use IE6 & IE7

[karlosb]

Firefox 3.0 is by far the best piece of Browser software I've ever come across. I've just been added numerous add-ons tonight, including "SEO for Firefox" to check Website Backlinks etc…

[ElanMan]

bocaj, on Feb 13 2009, 21:17, said:

haha, vista is ridiculous, i know.
Vista takes roughly double xp's resources, with my spec, vista should be able to run a browser fine.

I'm a new vista user (4 months or so) and have had endless problems with it, not just involving FF3. I used to love xp and the xp/ff combo worked great but vista/ff3 is like being stabbed in the arse. Very painful!
My main pc is dual booted with Fedora and FF3 is brilliant when running that, likewise when I run my Ubuntu machine. It just doesn't seem to get along with Vista in my experience. And my pc is only 4 months old with decent(ish) spec.

[Hafsoh]

Firefox is exciting because of the global community of people who create it.

[phpfaber]

I just like it! Moved from IE some long time ago.. Like some extensions for it also!