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Had to ditch Firefox for Google Crome
Gusto Brunt
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Firefox was always crashing and saying a script had stopped running. >:(
The whole browser would freeze and I'd have to restart my computer. What a pain in the a***.
So annoying.>:(
The whole browser would freeze and I'd have to restart my computer. What a pain in the a***.
So annoying.>:(
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He said, crossing his fingers, toes and everything else he could think of
I thought it might be a virus on my pc, but it was Firefox. I did a search on Google and Firefox freezing and crashing are common problems.
I have a work around in place atm....open Firefox then minimise...open a new tab and use that for Firefox....no crashing, freezing, etc.
assuming problem was firefox
Done that several times without success.
The previous version worked perfectly, seems very odd that an updated version is causing trouble with the same settings and everything as before.
There's one site I'm getting the same "script has stopped running" message - the BT Mail website. But I'm blaming the site rather than Firefox.
No other issues to report.
Maybe its to do with the new Chrome look because High contrast doesn't work there either .... IE8 (cos its XP) works fine as it always did.
There is an add-on for FF called 'blank your monitor' but the trouble is it only blanks the web page and not the whole screen.
I was getting it on Digital Spy and Youtube. No problems now I am on Chrome.
I must have the new version then.
there's a sort of selection bias here. I don't know how big the user base is. maybe 500m users? something like that.
if you search for problems like crashing on something that has 500m users you will find some.
if you googled the same thing with chrome, internet explorer, safari, opera instead of firefox you'd get the same result.
Yeah, I doubt that any browser will work totally fine on everyone's system. Because of one thing or another, all browsers will have stability issues when it comes to a small amount of people's systems.
On my system which is still on XP, I have returned to Yandex Browser & find it is the very best of the lot.
No crashing & stable.
fast @ starting up & very quick loading pages.
I've given up and am now using Opera 22 instead. I prefer FF though so I'll try it again when a new version comes out (currently got version 30).
The strange thing is, I have version 30 installed on my desktop with the same extensions and it works perfectly, the only difference is my laptop is Windows 8.1 and the desktop is Windows 7.
I uninstalled Norton and got myself another anti virus system....no more problems with Firefox!!
I wasn't going to post this, but I read the OP - and added to the discussion. Onside, Ref!
I tried Waterfox and had the same problem, I suppose because it uses my FF profile?
Hmm Yandex, never tried that one, I'll give it a shot.
Well with millions and millions of users around the globe there's bound to be several hundred of them with problems. I can honestly say now, for me personally on both tablet, phone, and especially my Linux desktop, that Firefox is even quicker than Chrome. I'm not happy with the Flash situation, but it hasn't given me any issues so I cannot reasonably complain about it.