Why do you think Firefox is "All That"

[Glaine]

The Number 1 reason to use FireFox!!!!!!

Bork Bork Bork!

 

Seroiusly, I love FireFox for the extensions and security.  I haven't really havent used tabs much.

This plug-in is greatness! Fer real folks, funny stuff reading your email with it.

Seems FF is a bit of a resource hog though, I sometimes have to close it up to get good framerates on 3d games.

Lew is saying the exact opposite up above...Maybe it has to do with what you are running for add-ons, plug-ins, themes, and all that jazz in relation to overall resource consumption from IE to FF.

The only plug-ins I have are shockwave flash & bork! I think. It could be that I usually have 3-5 tabs open but that shouldn't suck up that much resource. I think I've only got 512 mb of memory, so thats part of it. The machine is about 3-4 years old so I don't plan to upgrade it too much more - I'll probably just buy a vista machine next once those look stable (LOOK stable anyways. It'll probably need a truck load of patches just like its dad).

[quarterback]

I "upgraded" to Firefox 2.0 back in early December and have regretted it ever since.

After some finite amount of webbrowsing, Firefox simply stops working.  It will no longer connect to any websites at all.  I then ctrl-alt-delete to close all of my open Firefox windows and restart it.  Thank GOD it has the "restore sessions" option so, at least, it re-opens the pages I was last looking at, but it's really ridiculous and has pushed me back to IE.

I did some searching in Dec and found that I'm not the only one with this problem.  There is a whole list of things that might cause it, 99% of which do not apply to me.  I'm not using any plug-ins or anything else.  Just vanilla Firefox.   I went through a process of uninstalling it completely and removing all registry info related to FireFox (as some of the fix-it websites recommend) so I could install from scratch.  No dice.  It works for about 30 minutes of browsing and then I have to shut it all down.

Right now I'd have to say that Firefox 2.0 (2.0.0.1 to be exact) sucks big donkey balls.  I wish I'd never 'upgraded' from 1.whatever.

[pointdablame]

I'm running 2.0.0.1 right now with zero problems.

It sucks that you're having trouble, but it doesn't seem to be a widespread problem looking on their forum.  Sucks though.  I love FF 2.0

[Zakk]

I gotta concur.  I was against firefox for quite a while because it was incompatible with some web sites.  I've been using 2.0.0.1 for a fair while now, and it's problem free....even after 5 days without a reboot.  No lockups or anything.

Oh, and I'm normally now anti MS either, just so you know I'm not a hippy linux-humper

[quarterback]

I'm running 2.0.0.1 right now with zero problems.

It sucks that you're having trouble, but it doesn't seem to be a widespread problem looking on their forum.  Sucks though.  I love FF 2.0

Yeah.  I'm convinced it had something to do with going with the 'upgrade' path and not a completely new install.
Although some of the people here seem to have the same problem even when they did do a clean install:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=483517&postdays=0&postorder=asc&postsperpage=15&start=0&sid=b208391d06f11d216f1598ca0e8bf33b

It's a 12 page thread and, after two months, the original poster actually had his problem solved by installing 2.0.0.1 (which I just did last week to no avail), but there are definitely a number of people in that thread having the exact same problem I am.  FF2 just simply stops working.

There's a whole list of solutions to FF "hangs" here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_hangs  Unfortunately, none of them solve the problem on my system.   

I guess I'll go back to 1.5 like the other people in my shoes. 

[DrewKaree]

I guess I'll go back to 1.5 like the other people in my shoes. 

That's what I was gonna suggest.  I didn't like the move to 1.5 because I was experiencing the memory leak, but for whatever reason, it seems to have fixed itself.  I think it was prolly some wonky plug-in I was using at the time, since I went through and cleaned out my plug-ins and noticed the problem went away soon after.

I'm a pretty decent speller and a very fast typer, so if I spell something wrong here and there, I don't care that much if I'm told about it.  If I had something that alerted me every time I misspelled a word, it would drive me as nuts as PDB not having the sweet safety of a pack of gum in his front pocket every day