Switching back to IE...

[ermitonto]

In the past few months, my copy of Firefox has picked up this annoying habit of not responding for a while (about 30-60 seconds) and then disappearing from my taskbar. I have to keep clicking alternatively on the Desktop and back to Firefox in order for it to reappear, and then it will just do the same thing again a couple minutes later. Despite several upgrades, the bug has not been fixed.

So I'm switching back to Internet Explorer for the time being, which is a hell of a lot faster anyways. I like all the features Firefox has to offer, but it just isn't worth using anymore.

Does anybody know of any good non-IE, non-Firefox browsers out there?

ermitonto Reviewed by ermitonto on 09-25-2005. Switching back to IE... In the past few months, my copy of Firefox has picked up this annoying habit of not responding for a while (about 30-60 seconds) and then disappearing from my taskbar. I have to keep clicking alternatively on the Desktop and back to Firefox in order for it to reappear, and then it will just do the same thing again a couple minutes later. :mad: Despite several upgrades, the bug has not been fixed. So I'm switching back to Internet Explorer for the time being, which is a hell of a lot faster Rating: 5

[ilikerabbits]

www.avantbrowser.com works pretty well, puts IE on its ass anyday.

[Edgar]

I had the same problem not long after i started usin' firefox. It turns out part of my problem was just that i had let the download manager fill up with downloads. I had the download manager set to manual instead of having it set to "remove files from the download manager when firefox exits" After deleting the files from the download manager and changing that setting and updating, the problem went away.

Now this was a while back, so I may left something out...

[GHoSToKeR]

Isn't there one called Netscape?

You find Firefox slow? I found it much faster than IE and crashes alot less... in fact, it doesn't crash at all. Try completely uninstalling it, rebooting, and then reinstalling it.

Did you tweak your version of Firefox at all? (most tweaks are done on the 'about:config' page), because you may have changed something and caused the problem yourself...

[Omun]

It seems your experiencing one of firefox's main flaws of being a memory hog, but yeah don't move back to IE. Okay well before you are allowed to complain about firefox you first must make sure you are running the latest version which is 1.0.7 to find out what version you are using go to Help>About Mozilla Firefox. If you running anything less than 1.0.7 you are not allowed to complain. Then after you update your going to want to be sure you clean out your Cache (any browser can get hosed up by too much stuff in its cache). Go into the options then go into privace then go to cache and hit clear.

To help with firefox being such a memory hog your going to want to change that cache setting from the default 50000 KB to something more reasonable like 10000 should be fine expecially with a high speed connection.

That should help you with your problems I hope. If not the Opera browser has recently decided to take out there ad on the unpaid version so now it's completly free. Thats another good browser http://www.opera.com But I stick with firefox And don't use the avant browser because that's just IE with some bells and whistles but it still has all the security flaws as IE.

[tokosan]

google is moving into the browser market.

this marks the downfall of all other browsers, for google is teh internet gods.

[Omun]

ehh google already knows too much. I will stick with the open source software I know and love!