I've been a diligent user of Firefox since it came out. Even though other browser followed, I kind of stick with it mainly for the excellent Firebug, Xmarks and SEO Doctor extensions.
However, with their recent rapid release cycle things were getting a bit out of hand. I am constantly experiencing crashes (couple of times a day) and slowdowns (as soon as I have a of tabs opened).
Since I am a kind of the person that spends most of their time in a browser, it turns out that I spend 10 minutes of my time each day waiting for my browser to restart or react.
Given that I will use a web browser for the next 30 years and some math, that comes to 1825 hours of my time on earth! 76 days of my life wasted waiting for the browser to do it's job!
It stops today, and after searching the web for reviews of current browsers I am writing this post in Google Chrome.
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Chrome is defintly quicker to start, firefox make so much time...
but firefox has good plugin that we can't find on chrome, so i use both.
i use more chrome but my firefox is always open too ;)
Well I'm using Firefox last 7 or 8 years and moving to Chrome because everyone else is doing is simply not what I like. I had problems with FF for a couple of weeks and then I realizes it's a plugin causing constant crashes (1-2 times per day). Deleted those plugins and now it works almost flawless.
Also you can surf the web without keyboard on FF (and without on screen keyboard), which you can't do on Chrome. Take that Chrome fans! :D
i always prefer chrome, better than firefox..!
I have been using Chrome for a year . Fed up of the constant updates that firefox makes.
Although there are 2 primary reasons I have to keep using firefox sometimes :
1 ) Firebug
2 ) Has'nt anyone noticed that in the wordpress text editor , pictures cannot be re-sized by click and drag when using chrome . But can be done so in firefox .
You are better with Chromium (in a binary form)
since Google chrome packs some code in it that track users and work against their privacy even from the Browser itself...
On a second hand, I did not experienced such FF behavior, since , as Mozilla developers say,
"it is just an number" and every new release goes through testing before release, so things are not quite just "out of hand".
Chromium (Chrome) might b a bit faster, but Firefox uses less RAM when browsing with, like having regularly 50+ tabs or something.
Alternatively, you can try Mozilla Seamonkey (www.seamonkey-project.org)
That includes Mozilla-based browser , Mail client (somewhat like Firefox and Thunderbird in one program), simple HTML editor and addons you get used to.
And it uses even less RAM that way. And yes it has somewhat SANE version numbers. :)
Maybe your Chrome thing have something with Adobe/Google alliance about flash player
but I uess you and other people know Flash is legacy technology, being replaced by HTML5, anyway.
Just, take your privacy (and freedom) into account, considering Crome.
Last year i opened a question about chrome omnibox:
http://superuser.com/questions/279285/chrome-suggestions-sucks-how-to-fix-like-firefox
This year, after firefox's endless memory hogs, i decide give it a try again and yeah, it seems they fixed previous suggestion problems a bit. I am still missing some features on firebug ( like gray html code if display:none) but overall chrome > firefox > all atm. I still cant understand why firefox dudes ruined a good browser :S
The Firefox rapid release cycle has really caused a mountain of problems. I moved to Chrome about a year back but still use Firefox when I need to use Firebug.
Have you tried to reset Firefox? (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fix-most-problems) . New profile does the job (almost always) .
FYI there is ESR version of Firefox, if you don't like rapid release cycle.
It's always easy to blame, but hard to try fixing it.
I have same experiance. Kept coming back to Firefox, but will change to Chrome, now,