...you overgrown, bloated, memory-sucking, overrated worthless excuse for an open-source browser.
yes, i used you for your cutesy add-ons and your convenient tabbed browsing. alas, IE has caught up with you, and eats approximately one tenth of the memory you do, you pathetic, miserable drain on system resources. sure, you are open to endless customization via configuration settings. so is atlantis, IF you can get it to install. yeah, you're more secure than msIE, but so is opera. sure, you have pretty themes, but so does maxthon. dear mozilla: shove firefox 3 up your shit-chute.
mozilla has pissed me off. in the past few months, developers have taken an outstanding web browser and turned it into a basin of vomit.
how to fight firefox memory leaks:
1. tweak your configuration settings. for hours. waste of time. nothing fucking works.
2. uninstall your add-ons. this does about as much good as, say, running six separate instances of firefox.
3. get really frustrated. search forums, to no avail.
4. boycott firefox and opt for something else. actually stops memory leaks.
before today, these browsers were installed on my system: opera 8, 9.2, and kestrel; msIE 7; firefox 2.0.0.14, and firefox 3. i now have added k-meleon 1.1.5, atlantis 0.1.3, and maxthon 2.1.2.649.
things that have stood out in my sleep-deprived mind:
k-meleon: open source. based on the same rendering system as firefox. runs on windows (there's versions for mac and linux too, though, i think). very lightweight. also, very basic. can not import firefox bookmarks. lots of fun (read:tacky) skins/themes. mouse gestures available through separately downloaded plug-in. k-meleon probably released entirely too soon.
atlantis: have fun getting it to install. if it does, plan on not using it for much beyond basic surfing. really secure. seemingly built by a single person (as opposed to a team of developers) as a pet project. mouse gestures need more improvement than k-meleon. only runs on linux.
maxthon: open source. only runs on windows. works a lot like IE. lightweight but not skimping on features. does not have built in spell check. mouse gestures are simple. end user must be capable of modifying config file to get a few very important things to work properly. like, you know, the search bar. tabbed browsing set-up makes me hit things.
what is your preferred browser, and why? i'll give each suggestion a fair shake, 'cept ones that can only be run on macs, cos i don't use a mac. (and you shouldn't either, graphic designers excused.)
oh, and how're you all doing this summer? having fun out there?
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WOW Remy.......it has been a while
Hope all is going well
there is this truly amazing browser I have been using for years now and it has never let me down, check it out
Internet Explorer
works like a charm, I can display any and every page just fine, you should look into it.
I stick with IE7 even though my computer nerd of a brother tells me I'm just asking to be hacked. I don't know how to configure and whatnot. IE7 does what I need it to do: work.
Summer's been hot as hell but good. Thanks! How about yourself?
the firefox 3 beta was really good! then i upgraded to the official ff3 release, and my browser went back to the bloated memory crapware that it was in ff2.
@eadie - i take it you feel that alternative browsers overrated.
...and what for a linux box?
oh shit. no wonder its so fast
@porcupinesol - meh, i feel a lot of stuff is overrated I guess, I just like to keep things simple. "The more I have, the more I can break". It's just I have never had any issues with IE so I really see no reason for me to change it. I was just trying to make a funny in the comment though, while I do feel alternate browsers ARE overrated, I'm not militantly against them by any means
@Wildcard_Inside - yep, asking to be hacked, if you're, ehhh, super-paranoid. i mean, it is less secure than, say, everything else, but unless you constantly visit sites of dubious origin...
@john - so what're you gonna use? at this point, i suggest maxthon...
IE doesn't work on my computer anymore. Eh. I'm computer wetarded so I'm stuck with firefox.
i'm a web developer, so i HAVE to test on all the browsers, regardless of whether i like them or not.
sorry, i use a mac. AND firefox. although it hasnt given me many problems. well not yet anyways.
Safari, because I have a mac.
and it's bout' damn time you got back!
@TigerIly - how the HELL does IE not work on your computer?? (disregard this quesion if you are not running windows.)
@wutuwaitn4 - i was a web developer, as a result, i am left with a curiosity about the way each release of many browsers handle certain elements of design. some just, uhh... don't.
@tsotofu - well huh. you mean, one doesn't get bloat on the firefox/mac combination?
LOL. I'm on Windows. But a friend fed it a virus and then the hubby like...I don't know rebooted it or something. =| I lost pretty much everything. And IE doesn't work properly. I don't know :[
use old version of firefox because it still works!
@porcupinesol - it hasnt been that bad... once in a while it gets bogged down... but ive experienced worse with a pc and ie.
@porcupinesol - Unfortunately, I have to use browsers that a lot of people use... so I see Xanga like our users do. So I can't use something like Maxthon...
@everybody_do_thebender - methinks you can use Safari on windows, too. you can also use it on linux box, it's basically konquerer. in my experiences, safari has funny quirks when rendering CSS coding. (even though it was supposedly the first to pass the acid2 test.)
...miss me, did ya?
@porcupinesol - LOL I don't go anywhere else besides my bank accounts and Xanga. I tell my husband that if he MUST look at porn, it better be expensive because if it's free it's very likely full of bad stuff (both models and spyware).
@john - already thought of that. maxthon views xanga like the masses do, as far as i can tell. that's something i have to think about, too.
@tsotofu - amazingly odd.
@LA2SF_HWY - hmmm, you HAVE a point...
@TigerIly - if you want IE back, i can hook you up. however, in firefox's defense, it is more secure, although i believe IE might finally be catching up on the whole dealing with security issues thing.
@porcupinesol - Well it would be nice to know how to get it working again. It's kinda annoying because if I click on any links anyone sends me, it opens IE by default, and then it freezes D:<
wow. Not sure why so many people have so many problems with Firefox. I only had problems with version 1.5 which admittedly was a memory hog. Since then I generally keep dozens of tabs open and never have any memory problems. I use a few extensions too but not a whole lot.
I agree that Firefox should take complaints like this seriously though. There are a lot of people who are hating firefox 3. I love it. But there's gotta be a reason it's turning out so bad for everyone. Maybe Mozilla needs to just do something to wipe out all existing extensions, plugins, themes, and any residual components causing problems give people a truly clean slate so that user experiences match the benchmarks.
I've been following firefox since like the 0.05 release though, and really the design philosophy hasn't changed very much at all. They were *never* out to be the smallest slimmest browser on the planet, but the easiest to use most functional alternative to IE so that people would adopt it. It's always been about increasing market share. And it's been working really well. We're a far cry from the days when IE had 97% of the browser market. That's largely thanks to Firefox.
Internet Explorer works like a charm but I use Firefox sometimes. And yeah, Firefox sucks.
sigh, et tu mozilla? it's like another vista, slowing down my baby
Its been a while since you posted. Welcome back.
The only thing I hate about Firefox is how it tends to delete my bookmarks at random (at least that was the case with 2.0, I've yet to see it happen on 3.0).
The only other browser I've had experienced with aside from IE and Firefox is Opera since my Wii has it. What ticks me off about it is how I can't seem to scroll down whenever I browse Xanga.