Dear Mozilla...

[elfs]

So, it's almost completely over between me and Firefox. It's completely unstable now, crashing constantly when it's not locking up and running away with the CPU. The crashing is plug-in related; every Flash video crashes the browser at the end.

Chrome is completely stable and gives me no problems whatsoever. I really would rather use Firefox-- Firebug still gives superior information to Chrome's "developer mode," for one thing-- but until this is resolved I can't with good conscience.

Bleah

Comments

[codeamazon.livejournal.com]

Ah..you're at that 'if you would just go back to the way you used to be...' stage in a breakup. My condolences - that is a very hard stage.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_candide_/]

Yeah, the freezing and becoming unresponsive for 30-60 sec. is getting very old.

I'm getting very close to, well, not so much "dumping" Firefox as permanently disabling JavaScript and cookies except on one or two sites, and using Chrome for anything that requires JS.

[elfs.livejournal.com]

As I pointed out in a blog much earlier, I have an insane collection of browers (http://elfs.livejournal.com/1161146.html) at my disposal. I frequently have Flock, Firefox, and Chrome all running at the same time. Firefox is just taking a back seat until it gets its act together.

What annoys me more than anything else is that I rebuild xulrunner & firefox with '--debugging' on, and it wouldn't even load. If I can't run it in GDB, it's not a program.

[urox.livejournal.com]

Careful about the statement "Chrome is completely stable." My husband attempted to run dominos.com stuff on it and it crashed Chrome on the macbook.

[whipartist.livejournal.com]

Weird. I have none of that-- I generally restart Firefox every couple of weeks.

[dossy.livejournal.com]

I've been finding WebKit's Developer Tools adequate, but there is Firebug Lite for Chrome now. And, I just discovered Speed Tracer, so I no longer fire up Firefox just for Firebug's Net panel.

[kengr]

I get that on one of my three Windoze boxes. Well, it doesn't crash, but some videos quit being able to load play after a while. And sound tends to disappear sometimes. But the sound problem has been there for *years (a side effect of trying to use Quickplayer Alternative and Realplayer alternative. They messed up badly and uuninstalling them left me with problems).

I do get slow downs on some flash heavy sites, as well.

So I have to reboot once every few days. Eventually I'll do an OS reinstall (gotta shift from Win2k to XP anyway what with 2k support going away in July).

So I'd not be surprised to find that some of it is related to driver issues.

[mikstera.livejournal.com]

While Chrome is working well under WinXP, it's unstable under Ubuntu... prone to crashing.

Major bummer... I, too, am fed up with firefox's memory bloat and very sluggish responsiveness.

[elgatocurioso.livejournal.com]

I almost replied to this thread yesterday saying "me too". This morning, I was scrolling down through my Friends page when my Firefox crashed.

For the 15 seconds it was locked up before it decided to give up the ghost, was this very post.

I know my vocabulary well enough to know it wasn't "irony", but it sure felt like someone was rubbing my nose in it!

Cheers