Why is Firefox 7 so bloody awful ?

[vijilants]

I initially started using Firefox some time back as it was lightweight, didn't take up too much CPU or memory, and was fairly easy to use.

Last week I upgraded to Firefox 7 and bitterly regret it.

The program is extremely CPU intensive and is basically near unusable if you have many tabs on the go.

Can anyone recommend a better browser ideally not IE.

Thanks

 

[Troon]

Chrome.

 

[dulayj]

my teenage boys use google chrome?-im happy with IE-runs on xp and win 7 no problems

 

[KillerHERTZ]

Chrome

(For the record, Chrome has now overtaken Firefox - number of users)

 

[BTB 500]

I use IE all the time with multiple tabs and no issues (Win7, Vista, and XP).

 

[grober]

FIREFOX 7 is very buggy at present - Lots of overlaps/conflicts with security products for example. No doubt they will all get sorted out in time--- best not to be an early adopter perhaps.

 

[The _Don]

I use firefox daily with no problems.

 

[Geezer]

Definitely Chrome. You don't realise how fast it is until you try something else. Opera a close second.

 

[Colin_b]

I'm using Firefox 7.0.1, about a dozen tabs open. No problems - yet...

 

[Red C220]

I'm a firefox user but have found the latest version has a tendency to hang - but always recovers.

 

[moonloops]

On firefox 7 without any issues. Oh maybe flashblock is getting a bit aggressive blocking youtube without me requesting it ?

If you are looking at bloatware check out adobe reader version X - 160Mb installed!

Just removed it and installed a reader by foxit software or some such..

 

[silver_star]

I have been using Firefox for the last 6-7 years. However, I have to admit the updates over the last couple of months seem to be making it progressively worse and less stable. When I get wound up with it I use Chrome, and think I will problably move over to it full time eventually...old habits die hard.

 

[neilz]

I'm bucking the trend, I'm using Windows 8 Developer's Preview with Internet Explorer 10. It's so fast (if you have under 10 tabs open), and should be released soon for Windows 7.

 

[KillerHERTZ]

I'm bucking the trend, I'm using Windows 8 Developer's Preview with Internet Explorer 10. It's so fast (if you have under 10 tabs open), and should be released soon for Windows 7.

Soon? doubt it, 9 hasnt been out that long.

 

[davethemus]

chrome is first class

 

[Beetnik]

+1 for Chrome - far and away the best at present.

 

[clever dicky]

You still havn't used opera yet then ?

http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?id=34034&thanks=true&sub=true

 

[Haris]

Another vote for Chrome here!

don't know why I didn't start using it earlier (always had firefox before)

 

[tim.100]

I have been using Firefox for the last 6-7 years. However, I have to admit the updates over the last couple of months seem to be making it progressively worse and less stable.

+1

...but I have now switched to Chrome (which did an excellent job of importing my settings from Firefox)

 

[corned]

FIREFOX 7 is very buggy at present - Lots of overlaps/conflicts with security products for example. No doubt they will all get sorted out in time--- best not to be an early adopter perhaps.

They said that about version 4, and since then every release has got steadily worse. I have no idea what they are thinking any more. The product is truly carp. No wonder Chrome has overtaken it in popularity.

I regressed back to 3.6 (took some finding, but I got there) and have been happy again ever since. I belive the main reason it's so carp is that the cache file stricture introduced at V4 is so unwieldy (thousands of sub-folders and directories). The machine then has to work very hard to keep track of everything it is doing. Mental!