Good Bye Firefox 12!

[kerridwen]

Firefox 12 would hang on exit, the windows would close, but the process would remain in the Taks Manager and the memory wouldn't be freed until I manually killed it.

Firefox "support" had just basic things to do, like disabling plugins and extensions, wich didn't help at all. Not even a reinstall helped.

Between that, and the fact that after a couple hours of using it, it would be hoggin 1.5GB of RAM was enough. I'm now using IE, and while crappy, it doesn't quite get to the same level of crappiness as they managed in the latest versions of Firefox.

[SpiffyGTI]

Weird. FF12 works just fine for me. So does IE9 for that matter, but I'm more used to the FF interface so that's my browser of preference. I still use IE9 from time to time since it works so much better for certain (work) websites. I have 11 tabs open across 2 instances of FF and I'm at about 350MB of RAM. I don't really have any plugins running aside from AdBlock Plus or whatever it's called.

[Hostile]

I gave up on Firefox a year or two ago, it's a complete memory hog and just runs like ass compared to Chrome.

[kerridwen]

Weird. FF12 works just fine for me. So does IE9 for that matter, but I'm more used to the FF interface so that's my browser of preference. I still use IE9 from time to time since it works so much better for certain (work) websites. I have 11 tabs open across 2 instances of FF and I'm at about 350MB of RAM. I don't really have any plugins running aside from AdBlock Plus or whatever it's called.

AdBock Plus is an extension. I had two extensions installed:

- Ad Block Plus
- Skype Click to Call

Then I had some plugins:

- Java
- Quicktime
- Webex
- Adobe Flash
- Silverlight

Pretty much what you'd expect in any computer, save for the Webex plugin. I removed all of them, disabled all of them, reinstalled and made sure they were updated, it didn't help at all.

What really pissed me off, and made me swear off Firefox is that on their "support" section, they blame everything but their bloatware. They tell you to disable plugins, extensions and antivirus...

Guess what? I tried all of that, didn't help, it's their crappy software that is causing problems.

[kerridwen]

The only thing I was really missing about FF12 was the ad blocker...

But I already found one for IE9!


Not going back. The guys at Mozilla have to get their act together, going from Firefox 4 to Firefox 11 in a year? Releasing Firefox 12 just two months after that? What the heck do they think they are doing?

[rich!]

at least go chrome over IE - chrome has adblockplus as well

as for memory - you have to set the hard limits in the about:config.

[ATL_Av8r]

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[Vision33r]

Chrome solved this memory problem by launching a separate process to run each plugin so that each plugin would independently address memory rather than stack. 32bit apps approaching the 2GB memory limit would cause a ton of pagefaults which results in hangs and choking the system.
Chrome's solution does not solve the problem completely as some plugins can also leak memory over time and requires closing the tab.

I wish Firefox would put the 64bit version out which will solve the memory addressing problem.

[Hostile]

Chrome solved this memory problem by launching a separate process to run each plugin so that each plugin would independently address memory rather than stack. 32bit apps approaching the 2GB memory limit would cause a ton of pagefaults which results in hangs and choking the system.
Chrome's solution does not solve the problem completely as some plugins can also leak memory over time and requires closing the tab.

I wish Firefox would put the 64bit version out which will solve the memory addressing problem.

Yea, because giving an application known to be full of memory leaks more memory to use is the obvious solution...

[ATL_Av8r]

Yea, because giving an application known to be full of memory leaks more memory to use is the obvious solution...

Hey hey hey....don't knock Microsoft's business model

[Vision33r]

Yea, because giving an application known to be full of memory leaks more memory to use is the obvious solution...

Chrome isn't immune to the problem, they only mitigated the issue thus so far.

[PhReE]

Chrome solved this memory problem by launching a separate process to run each plugin so that each plugin would independently address memory rather than stack. 32bit apps approaching the 2GB memory limit would cause a ton of pagefaults which results in hangs and choking the system.
Chrome's solution does not solve the problem completely as some plugins can also leak memory over time and requires closing the tab.

I wish Firefox would put the 64bit version out which will solve the memory addressing problem.

Chrome uses a lot of memory too. There IS a 64-bit version of firefox. Thats a link to the nightly beta. Good luck with plugins though...

[Aonarch]

Pale Moon x64

Try that out. It is a 64 bit version of Firefox per say.

My adblocker and adobe works with it.

[Saintor]

I was running Firefox for 3-4 years, recent versions sucked .... now with Chrome since last fall. IE 9-10 is not bad either.

[zhenya00]

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If you didn't do this, all else was for naught - even reinstalling.

[patrick_leeabc]

I gave up on Firefox and use Chrome only now.

[BRealistic]

Firefox was good... but Chrome is better.

The biggest irritation to Firefox was the extremely long time it took to initially open.

[O_G]

Use Waterfox, 64-bit non-beta Firefox.

It works well, despite the silly name.

http://waterfoxproject.org/