The death of Firefox

[parad0x]

Found it while searching for temperature below absolute zero.
http://www.extremetech.com/computing/116885-the-death-of-firefox
I don't think firefox will ever die.What do you say about this?

[hanorotu]

I just recently switched to chrome because of the laggyness of flash in firefox, I even unpinned it from my task bar

[namespace7]

I still use FF just because I am so used to it.
And it works just fine both on linux and windows. Never have any laggs or anything that I would not have on chrome.
So for now I will stay with FF.

[Snayler]

Personally I don't think it will die anytime soon. Heck, If we're gonna talk about dying, look at Opera. And even though Opera never got that much attention (they do make very nice browsers for Symbian mobiles, from my experience), it's still alive and developing.

@hanorotu: I'm currently using chrome and I notice that lag in it too. I've switched to chrome because firefox seemed a bit unstable handling flash applications (plugin container crashed often), and although chrome handles it a little better, I can still experience some problems. I've reached to the conclusion that the problem may not be with the browser, but with flash itself.

[geXXos]

From the "Big Five" Firefox and Opera are the browsers that don't have a huge corporation with unlimited money to spend in advertising (Apple, Google, Microsoft) and a OS (MacOS X/iOs, Chrome OS/Android, Windows/WP7) to spread the software on their side.

Opera stagnates at 1-2%, Firefox has the support of the OS-community (and lots of Google's money), but cannot compete against those giants. I for one prefer the underdogs
Firefox may continue to go down in market share, but it surely isn't going to die.

[hanorotu]

@hanorotu: I'm currently using chrome and I notice that lag in it too. I've switched to chrome because firefox seemed a bit unstable handling flash applications (plugin container crashed often), and although chrome handles it a little better, I can still experience some problems. I've reached to the conclusion that the problem may not be with the browser, but with flash itself.

Flash hasn't crashed since I switched. You may be right but switching solved whatever problem I was having lol

[RedBullAddicted]

I use Firefox for many, many years now and never had any problems with it. Some things need fine tuning but tbh is there any software available that doesn't need to be tweaked? For sure I will go on using it as long as it is available


Cheers,
RBA

[proxx]

IE Sucks
Safari = apple = dont wanna leak everything to apple.
Chrome = google = dont wanna leak everything to google.

So thats either Firefox which I use for its plugins.
Or opera which is a very good browser.
Also I use lynx,midori and surf.

[Corrupted_Fear]

I used to use chrome till it started bugging up with sound issues and flash. Tried a hundred different things to fix it, it would work for an hour, then screw up again next time I booted. Eventually I just gave up and went to firefox. Chrome is fast, easy to use, but FF has a better over quality in my opinion. That and they dont record everything you do.

[fluxdaemon]

I've never had a problem with Chrome since I started using the beta several years ago
I have always had issues with Firefox though, I hate it and every version seems to get worse


Lifehacker just posted their benchmarks yesterday but I don't know what kind of hardware or OS they were using
http://lifehacker.com/browser-speed-tests/

[Snayler]

Flash hasn't crashed since I switched. You may be right but switching solved whatever problem I was having lol

Well, TBH it doesn't crash as often as FF did, but now I have some problems with RAM memory shortage when I have multiple tabs using flash, which causes some tab's flash app to crash.

Lifehacker just posted their benchmarks yesterday but I don't know what kind of hardware or OS they were using
http://lifehacker.com/browser-speed-tests/

Well, that explains the memory outages I've been having. Firefox seems to handle memory better.

[fluxdaemon]

Well, that explains the memory outages I've been having. Firefox seems to handle memory better.

Yea, unfortunately Chrome is a memory hog but when you have 8+ GB of RAM, I don't worry about it too much

[techb]

I used chrome for ever, but then I got hit with some kind of DNS redirector that would redirect google links, I switched/used what the wife does, since I'm on her laptop. The only think I don't care much for in firefox is that it is a bit slow, and some porn videos I watch get laggy.

[theellimist]

TBH I really don't get the whole speed thing, I mean, it is the difference between a split second and a split second. I guess people have just gotten greedy and don't remember the good old days when shit took forever to load. Oh and I personally prefer FF because of the add ons and because I don't need Google looking over my shoulder any more than it already does.

[techb]

TBH I really don't get the whole speed thing, I mean, it is the difference between a split second and a split second. I guess people have just gotten greedy and don't remember the good old days when shit took forever to load. Oh and I personally prefer FF because of the add ons and because I don't need Google looking over my shoulder any more than it already does.

Compared to 2min start time in FF, and 30sec start time in Chrome is a big diff. When it comes to loading a page, the worst I have seen in FF is about a 1min if the site has ads and some .gifs, as Chrome will do it in less than 30sec; ads included.