I have... regularly.... I have it installed on my work issued laptop (I won't install it on my personal machine) and it does this OFTEN. I used chrome 99% of the time. I'm with you.. SO over Firefox.
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Firefox - Is it a lost cause?
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FF 11 just went final.
And since I am on the beta channel, I just got 12. And, again, I love it. Works great, has the biggest and best feature set - so I am still sticking it as my number 1 browser.
For people complaining about how it looks, I guess there are some big changes in 13 which is in early stages now, but the beta will be out in 6 weeks. I saw some pics of the look and it really looks slick.
FF 11 just went final.
And since I am on the beta channel, I just got 12. And, again, I love it. Works great, has the biggest and best feature set - so I am still sticking it as my number 1 browser.
For people complaining about how it looks, I guess there are some big changes in 13 which is in early stages now, but the beta will be out in 6 weeks. I saw some pics of the look and it really looks slick.
I finally upgraded from 3 to 11 this weekend. Tried 4-10 but they ran like molasses on an uphill slope in winter, on both my Macs at home and my PC at work. Something was very wrong.
Whatever it was, seems fixed with 11. Works fine, speedy, and uses less memory that Safari.
I tried Chrome for about 30 seconds a while back, but the privacy management was so poor as to make it untenable, ...it is Google after all.
Would have stayed with Safari (and Safari Cookies) though, but it doesn't play well with Silverlight at all.
Whatever it was, seems fixed with 11. Works fine, speedy, and uses less memory that Safari.
I tried Chrome for about 30 seconds a while back, but the privacy management was so poor as to make it untenable, ...it is Google after all.
Would have stayed with Safari (and Safari Cookies) though, but it doesn't play well with Silverlight at all.
Been using FF 11.0 for a few days and it´s just fantastic. It´s so good I´m uninstalling Chrome as I type.
I´m not leaving you again little red panda, we have been through a lot together
No more weird text, pictures are displayed properly, full screen glory and on and on...
I´m not leaving you again little red panda, we have been through a lot together
No more weird text, pictures are displayed properly, full screen glory and on and on...
I got an 11" Macbook Air for Christmas, and I tried Firefox 10. It was nothing special, but I stuck with it for a bit because of my loyalty to Firefox, but it didn't take long for me to realize that it just wasn't as good as it used to be. I switched back to Safari.f
FF 11 is definitely faster than 10 and can compete with Safari. Then again, I would like native full-screen support in Lion. I'm also stuck on gesture zooming, three finger double-tap for dictionary look-ups (very useful with a translation dictionary), and the like. Sadly, Safari is lacking in some areas and isn't very Facebook friendly.
FF 11 is definitely faster than 10 and can compete with Safari. Then again, I would like native full-screen support in Lion. I'm also stuck on gesture zooming, three finger double-tap for dictionary look-ups (very useful with a translation dictionary), and the like. Sadly, Safari is lacking in some areas and isn't very Facebook friendly.
Just stopping by to say that I tried FF 11 again for a few days. I discovered that adblock was one of the memory and cpu hogging culprits so I uninstalled and installed adblock lite. Everything seemed fine for a few days. Then last night FF alone (not including the separate shockwave process) was consuming a whopping 1GB of RAM (active, not virtual). I ran a check (about:memory) and found that a large portion of the ram consumption had to do with a Java process. I couldn't work out which process, so I switched all my tabs over to Chrome. No problems the rest of the evening.
I'm critical of FF, but I have to say that when it was working well I liked it so much more than Chrome. I wish I had the skills to work on FF. I love it, but it's really out of shape.
I'm critical of FF, but I have to say that when it was working well I liked it so much more than Chrome. I wish I had the skills to work on FF. I love it, but it's really out of shape.