Thread: so I switched to firefox....

this thing is a piece of crap. Scrolls slowly (and this is a fresh install, as of 24 hours ago). opening new tabs freezes/pauses me being able to act on other tabs (like right clicking and opening a lot of unread posts at once).

Ridiculous.

Chrome doesn't do that. But of course, chrome isn't displaying the ads properly, and I have to be able to see the ads to be able to monitor/report them. Got this sweet ass plugin from one of our networks that let's me see an overlay on top of the ads, showing real time pricing, source networks, etc. Makes it 100X easier to track down bad ads. But..it only works on firefox....sigh.

Regardless. Firefox is crap compared to how FAST chrome is. Could care less about all the other stuff firefox is supposed to be able to do, since FIRST AND FOREMOST, it's slower than chrome, and thus sucks.

vote.

I use IE, Firefox and Chrome (depending on what I'm doing) but primarily Firefox. I avoid IE wherever possible, but there's a couple websites that ONLY work in IE. Chrome is nice and fast, but I need the functionality I have in Firefox before I can consider making the full time switch.

Thats weird. I use Firefox for everything.. No problems scrolling or new tabs or anything.. IE is what I think stands for Internet Exploder.. Have not used chrome yet tho..

I wonder why it works great for some people but slows others rigs down. Is it operating system differences?

Originally Posted by ALPINESTAR

Thats weird. I use Firefox for everything.. No problems scrolling or new tabs or anything.. IE is what I think stands for Internet Exploder.. Have not used chrome yet tho..

I wonder why it works great for some people but slows others rigs down. Is it operating system differences?

If you guys are comaring speed to IE....then you need to download chrome and see. Chrome is faster than firefox. Use it for a few weeks, and the go back to firefox. Then...come back and vote.

Did you have FF before, or is this the first time you installed it? If you had it before did you clear out all the leftover bloat when you uninstalled?

Originally Posted by CivilWars

Did you have FF before, or is this the first time you installed it? If you had it before did you clear out all the leftover bloat when you uninstalled?

I never used FF, ever. So if this is at good as it gets, FF is crap compared to chrome.

Chrome opens instantaneously. Meaning click, open, page loaded. Firefox...even from the desktop....I opend and closed chrome 3 X before firefox came up.

lame lame lame lame lame.

perhaps it's just cookies and plugins having to get populated. From scratch, firefox hasn't been to most of the sites I'm going to....so that affects loads until I get all my cookies straightened out.