night_tools wrote:

joesepi wrote:Firefox has gotten pretty much unusable for me on my mac.

i really liked Firefox, but WTF! It has gotten to where anything I want to do in FF chokes it. Like just there and there, spinning beach ball and a 5 second freeze --- B U L L S H I T ! ! !

Somebody let me know when FF stops sucking.

Joesepi, I've been having exactly the same problem with FF 2.0 on my mac.
I've been using Safari in the meantime,but I miss my tabbed browsing, so I've just downloaded the previous release of Firefox (1.5.07) from here
http://mac.oldapps.com/firefox.php

Hopefully this will solve the freezing - I don't remember having any such problems with the old version.

Thanks for the tip.

And by the way, you can turn on Tabbed Browsing in SAFARI in the Safari Preferences.

My update, OmniWeb just isn't what I want it to be. Opera is ok, but FF's extensions (notably the WebDevelopers Toolbar!) are too important to my everyday work to not use FF. It seems like if I quit it and restart it everyonce in a while, it gets better (memory), but it is still a pain. I may resort to the old FF for a bit.

And oh yeah, FUCK IE.

i love ff, fuck ie indeed. auto spellcheck makes it worth it enough... and i basically don't get any pop-ups.

joesepi wrote:but FF's extensions (notably the WebDevelopers Toolbar!) are too important to my everyday work to not use FF. It seems like if I quit it and restart it everyonce in a while, it gets better (memory), but it is still a pain. I may resort to the old FF for a bit.

And oh yeah, FUCK IE.

I, too, am suffering this Firefox slowdown on the Macintosh. It usually manifests itself when typing in a box like this b.e..c...o....m.....e......s very unresponsive. A restart fixes it.

But, I'd add, deleting a bunch of extensions that I wasn't ever using seems to have bought me some spry time.

daniel robert chapman wrote:...deleting a bunch of extensions that I wasn't ever using seems to have bought me some spry time.

those are also resource hogs. never install extensions you are not going to use or install ones you don't use anymore for this very reason.

If you type "about:config" in as a URL you can mess around with the program's settings.

Never had a problem like that with Firefox

I've had similar problems with FireFox, I really liked it, until these problems appeared. It was crashing when I was browsing sites which used flash. It would consume lots of the computer's cpu, It'd get to 100%.
Obviously, something went wrong, but Im not into reformatting right now.
I tried unisntalling, deleting it's registry entries and deleting it's preferances. Then I reinstalled, and still, I was having the same problems.
A friend at work is using some weird browser with cool mouse gestures and all that kind of stuff. I asked what is that, and he told me it's called [url="http://www.maxthon.com/"]Maxthon[/url].
It has multi tabbing, it's fast and has tons of features, and really modular so you can shape it the way you want.
It doesn't have spell check, but I've found plugins for that. Check this thread for options.

I started using it just today, meanwhile it looks cool, I guess it's worth the shot.

eliya

I found an article on how to make firefox less of a memory hog through this great site, Lifehacker.

I just tried out the hacks (configs really), so nothing to report yet, but I thought I would share the info.

I have to mention again how great Lifehacker is. I have found some really cool stuff/ideas/apps/tutorials/anything there.