I wonder for those who are Firefox lovers have tried anything above 4. I'm at 5 and I think because of the BETA features of it that it is very hard to use when watching videos or seeing animated images. I wonder if the ALPHA versions that have been out are any better... has anybody updated their Firefox recently to Firefox 5 or 6 or whatever?

I think Firefox has kinda jumped the shark at this point honestly. The just can't seem to get it together.

I only ever use it now when I need to access certain sites that apparently don't like Google too much.

Yes, I know this post is pretty much useless and doesn't answer the question.

armpit said:

I think Firefox has kinda jumped the shark at this point honestly. The just can't seem to get it together.

I only ever use it now when I need to access certain sites that apparently don't like Google too much.

Yes, I know this post is pretty much useless and doesn't answer the question.

Well to be frank, I've been using Opera more often lately. It's much more customable.

Im on 5 and it tends to hang from time to time, constantly having to force quit is doing my head in... apparently it's to be expected.I just hope they sort this out on the next update...

Timmy84 said:

I wonder for those who are Firefox lovers have tried anything above 4. I'm at 5 and I think because of the BETA features of it that it is very hard to use when watching videos or seeing animated images. I wonder if the ALPHA versions that have been out are any better... has anybody updated their Firefox recently to Firefox 5 or 6 or whatever?

Yeah, I updated mine to version 5 a month or two ago. It didn't even like the Google toolbar, which I absolutely have to have. Luckily, I found a way to get around it. Other than that, all of my other add-ins continued to work just fine.

alexnvrmnd777 said:

Timmy84 said:

I wonder for those who are Firefox lovers have tried anything above 4. I'm at 5 and I think because of the BETA features of it that it is very hard to use when watching videos or seeing animated images. I wonder if the ALPHA versions that have been out are any better... has anybody updated their Firefox recently to Firefox 5 or 6 or whatever?

Yeah, I updated mine to version 5 a month or two ago. It didn't even like the Google toolbar, which I absolutely have to have. Luckily, I found a way to get around it. Other than that, all of my other add-ins continued to work just fine.

That's interesting. I hardly use toolbars on mine's but yeah there were no distractions from the add-ons I got though the DownloadHelper one I had to figure out lol

i've been using v6 for the past few weeks/months and it's pretty solid

unique said:

i've been using v6 for the past few weeks/months and it's pretty solid

not only didn't i know there was a version 6, but there's a 7 and 8

Hmmmmmm I've been using 5 and I havent had any video issues.

lazycrockett said:

Hmmmmmm I've been using 5 and I havent had any video issues.

neither have i, depends perhaps what your using.

Im on:

Mac, Leopard, Firefox 5.0.1

Joyinrepatition said:

unique said:

i've been using v6 for the past few weeks/months and it's pretty solid

not only didn't i know there was a version 6, but there's a 7 and 8

actually it's 7.02b or something i've been using for a while. aurora

unique said:

Joyinrepatition said:

not only didn't i know there was a version 6, but there's a 7 and 8

actually it's 7.02b or something i've been using for a while. aurora

i probably wont be able to get 6, 7 and 8 as i cant be asked to back up everything to go to snow leopard and then lion....

lazycrockett said:

Hmmmmmm I've been using 5 and I havent had any video issues.

Me either. It's stable for me. I run 5.0 on Win7. It's the only browser I use unless I have to access the state tax agency. They only accept IE

Timmy84 said:

I wonder for those who are Firefox lovers have tried anything above 4. I'm at 5 and I think because of the BETA features of it that it is very hard to use when watching videos or seeing animated images. I wonder if the ALPHA versions that have been out are any better... has anybody updated their Firefox recently to Firefox 5 or 6 or whatever?

I'm on 5; pissed that it has messed with my Real Player and Macafee extensions.

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lazycrockett said:

Hmmmmmm I've been using 5 and I havent had any video issues.

I'm guessing it depends on what extensions you have in the browser. Because I know it does for me.

Timmy84 said:

lazycrockett said:

Hmmmmmm I've been using 5 and I havent had any video issues.

I'm guessing it depends on what extensions you have in the browser. Because I know it does for me.

Yes. There are so many add-ons that it's unlikely that they'll all work with every version but FF usually tells you which ones have issues/are incompatible with it.

I divorced FF after 4...er...3....after a long time of service. It stopped working when I added the wifi router to the house. A friend online suggested I use Chrome. Funny thing, I started using Chrome and that seemed to fix whatever was wrong with FF. I just never went back, though. I only use it when something says Chrome isn't compatible, or I'm working with Entrecard and blog networking.

I had to give up certain add ons, but I rarely have all the crashes FF had. Chrome loads a little faster, too.

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Timmy84 said:

armpit said:

I think Firefox has kinda jumped the shark at this point honestly. The just can't seem to get it together.

I only ever use it now when I need to access certain sites that apparently don't like Google too much.

Yes, I know this post is pretty much useless and doesn't answer the question.

Well to be frank, I've been using Opera more often lately. It's much more customable.

I've never even tried that before.

I'm kinda tempted to download it but who really needs that many browsers? And it'd be that many because I refuse to delete Chrome or FF.

And you can customize your Chrome if you're willing to put in a little time and know where to look...

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armpit said:

Timmy84 said:

Well to be frank, I've been using Opera more often lately. It's much more customable.

I've never even tried that before.

I'm kinda tempted to download it but who really needs that many browsers? And it'd be that many because I refuse to delete Chrome or FF.

And you can customize your Chrome if you're willing to put in a little time and know where to look...

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I already got FF and Opera lol I think Chrome will look great on Windows 7, don't know about XP lol

I'm using 6 and have no problems.

JerseyKRS said:

I'm using 6 and have no problems.

I'm thinking of updating to 6 now actually.

Timmy84 said:

armpit said:

I've never even tried that before.

I'm kinda tempted to download it but who really needs that many browsers? And it'd be that many because I refuse to delete Chrome or FF.

And you can customize your Chrome if you're willing to put in a little time and know where to look...

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I already got FF and Opera lol I think Chrome will look great on Windows 7, don't know about XP lol

Yeah, XP I have no idea about; the only other OS I used Chrome with was Vista on my desktop computer and it looked fine and ran alright on there. Right now I'm using Windows 7 and it's the same thing there too.

I seriously fighting the urge to download Opera now like, "You don't need another one, stop it".

armpit said:

Timmy84 said:

I already got FF and Opera lol I think Chrome will look great on Windows 7, don't know about XP lol

Yeah, XP I have no idea about; the only other OS I used Chrome with was Vista on my desktop computer and it looked fine and ran alright on there. Right now I'm using Windows 7 and it's the same thing there too.

I seriously fighting the urge to download Opera now like, "You don't need another one, stop it".

LOL if you don't download Opera it's okay. I had the same dilemma with Chrome and Safari and thought "forget it".

Timmy84 said:

armpit said:

Yeah, XP I have no idea about; the only other OS I used Chrome with was Vista on my desktop computer and it looked fine and ran alright on there. Right now I'm using Windows 7 and it's the same thing there too.

I seriously fighting the urge to download Opera now like, "You don't need another one, stop it".

LOL if you don't download Opera it's okay. I had the same dilemma with Chrome and Safari and thought "forget it".

I know it's okay not to, I'm just addicted to downloading way more browsers and apps than I need; you should've seen how many add-ons I had on FF on my old computer. I had like four different translators, a World-Clock, and a bunch of other shit I can't even remember now. I always wanna try everything.

armpit said:

Timmy84 said:

LOL if you don't download Opera it's okay. I had the same dilemma with Chrome and Safari and thought "forget it".

I know it's okay not to, I'm just addicted to downloading way more browsers and apps than I need; you should've seen how many add-ons I had on FF on my old computer. I had like four different translators, a World-Clock, and a bunch of other shit I can't even remember now. I always wanna try everything.

I was like that on my old computer too (of course because then I didn't know my drive was already full it kept slowing down lol) but I've learned to be resistant in my latest one.

Timmy84 said:

armpit said:

I know it's okay not to, I'm just addicted to downloading way more browsers and apps than I need; you should've seen how many add-ons I had on FF on my old computer. I had like four different translators, a World-Clock, and a bunch of other shit I can't even remember now. I always wanna try everything.

I was like that on my old computer too (of course because then I didn't know my drive was already full it kept slowing down lol) but I've learned to be resistant in my latest one.

...Yeah, me too. *says this as I'm downloading Opera in another tab*

armpit said:

Timmy84 said:

I was like that on my old computer too (of course because then I didn't know my drive was already full it kept slowing down lol) but I've learned to be resistant in my latest one.

...Yeah, me too. *says this as I'm downloading Opera in another tab*

Well if you do try out Opera lemme know how it is...

Timmy84 said:

armpit said:

...Yeah, me too. *says this as I'm downloading Opera in another tab*

Well if you do try out Opera lemme know how it is...

I just did; I'm surprised how fast it runs, I was expecting it to drag. So now that means FF is the shittiest browser after IE.

I remember when Firefox was like, *the* browser.

armpit said:

Timmy84 said:

Well if you do try out Opera lemme know how it is...

I just did; I'm surprised how fast it runs, I was expecting it to drag. So now that means FF is the shittiest browser after IE.

I remember when Firefox was like, *the* browser.

It really has turned shitty. I went on it today and was surprised how much it drags compared to Opera and Chrome. But yeah Opera definitely is faster. And yeah you're not the only one who remembered when Firefox was the shit. 2006 was a really good year.

Timmy84 said:

armpit said:

I just did; I'm surprised how fast it runs, I was expecting it to drag. So now that means FF is the shittiest browser after IE.

I remember when Firefox was like, *the* browser.

It really has turned shitty. I went on it today and was surprised how much it drags compared to Opera and Chrome. But yeah Opera definitely is faster. And yeah you're not the only one who remembered when Firefox was the shit. 2006 was a really good year.

I know. I very seldom use Firefox for actual surfing now; I usually turn it on only to go to Tinychat.

FF still has everyone beat when it comes to browser designs though, and add-ons and the ease of installing said add-ons. At this point I think those are the only things still keeping FF in the race; once Chrome becomes more user-friendly in that respect, it's Game Over.

*points to Opera*

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