Firefox / Safari

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  1. capney

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    I have been having major problems with Firefox lately and have change to Safari... working a treat.
     
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    Odd to hear of problems with Firefox from someone, I think the 3 series is better than ever and beats all other browsers hands down, although saying that...I have never actually tried safari..I dont think.

    Steve...:)
     
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    I like Firefox, and it's what I mainly use, but I do have issues with it going slow occasionally, then I have to shut it down, start it up again, and it's fine.

    I've tried Chrome, but I miss all my addons.
     
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    I`m getting regular "Firfoxe not responding" messages, maybe only for a second or two, and soon recovers ..so annoying.
     
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    Mmmm, doesn't sound as though Firefox is going to be a solution to my problem with the bug that logs me involuntarily off the Forum. Sorry, you're having such problems, Capney.
     
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    When the forum changed the time before last I was having serious problems accessing it with Internet Explorer so I switched to Firefox. Since then I've not had any issues even during the more recent change back to vBulletin.
     
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    I have tried Chrome but as you say without the add-ons it seems a little bleak. Firefox is on version 4.0 now ,so download it and see if things improve .
    There are so many browsers now, back in the mid 1990's there was only IE and Netscape Navigator , anybody remember the dial-up-days , with huge phone bills ! :happydance:
     
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    Now heres a strange thing.
    I to was always having to log on to the GC forum regular since the change while using firefox.
    That issue has vanished now I`m using Safari...
     
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    I use Firefox for all my browsing & forums & have never had a problem with it.. To me it is better than Chrome too.. I used Chrome for quite a while but went back to Firefox as I found it much more forum compatible..!! :hapfeet:
     
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    I have used Firefox and most other,s now I use Chrome as for me it is the fastest, but I am well known for changing things on a regular basis:WINK1::)
     
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    :scratch: I found I liked lots of things about Chrome Woo & it was fast, but it used to cause me problems with my comps so always kept Firefox for them & in the end I am back with Firefox & no Chrome, but who knows I might try it again someday... :WINK1: :heehee:
     
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    Chrome opens each window/tab in a separate memory space. This is what makes it noticeably faster than the others. However, its thus a resource hog, so may cause problems on older computers as a result, and as web pages get more and more bulky. Chrome is also well integrated with Google - so you can google-search straight from the address bar, and it senses foreign language pages and offers google's Page Translation tool.

    But FireFox has more plugins. I use FireFox for GC as I have a plugin that removes all the forums I'm not interested in, so I can just follow areas of interest, but I use Chrome for everything else.
     
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    I've used Firefox for years (at present on 3.6.16) with none of these problems, but then I don't use Windows.
     
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