Should You Download Firefox 15? - Comments Page 1

I give FF another try when they stop causing my aol email to logoff and reset every 60 seconds

Thanks Bob,

I was thinking of moving away from firefox due to the memory hogging and frequent crashes. Am glad to hear they are addressing these issues. I have been using the 15 for the last two days and so far I've not had a crash. Will let you know how it goes.

I use Firefox under Linux (Ubuntu) Is there an updated version for Linux Op sys. I am to understand that this version is a beta ? - I have not experienced any excessive us of memory with Linux version

Upgraded to 15 as soon as possible but went back to 14. Clicking on links would close Firefox just got fed up with it closing down and on re-start the Well this is embarrassing message. I googled Yahoo clicked on it opened it but every time I tried I tried to make it my home page dragging it into the home icon it would just close then it happened on other sites as well so got rid. Got on my nerves informed Firefox facebox they said try safe mode and unable plugins & extensions but it made no difference told them but no new reply.

I recently installed FF15, not by choice but I needed to fresh install a hard disk. It is really annoying as there is, apparently, no way to set the top toolbars in the old order to which I have got used over many years - as frustrating as if someone had switched the T and E keys on your keyboard.
Why did FF need to do this? Some self centred, spotty erk maybe thought it suited him so he programmed it that way. Now I know that innovation can be killed by the "but we have always done it that way" school of thought, but sometimes we always did it that way because it worked for the majority of users - ahhh! of course FF never think about the users so that answers my quetion!

After Chrome stopped playing videos I went on the hunt for a new browser. Used IE9 for a while then tried Slimbrowser and Waterfox. Both of the later used up great amounts of CPU cycles and caused the CPU to get hot. So I tried Firefox 15. I must admit I am impressed. No CPU hog, loads pages fast and have had no problems with hung pages. It plays videos perfectly. While not quite as fast as Chrome it definitely is a keeper for me.

I had already returned to Firefox (from Chrome) for many web pages, Ebay especially is often bad using Chrome, with the whole page listed down the left side and many buttons (such as 'add to watch list',and 'place bid') not working. However Chrome still seems faster most of the time.

Just transferred all of my active tags to FF 15 and am amazed at the speed and very low memory use. Chrome was such a memory hog that slowed my computer down to a crawl.

15 is faster than 14 and doesn't spend as much time thrashing around trying to load a page. But the thrashing to load the page has not gone away completely. Chrome will load the page faster but with 15 the difference has narrowed considerably and in some cases there is no apparent difference to the human on the other side of the screen.

Let me start by stating that I don't like Firefox's frequent updates! FF15 made incompatible the add-on "Plain Old Favorites" which allows my large collection of IE favorites usable under FF. So, I will hold off installing FF15 until that incompatibility is resolved by either by FF or POF

I downloaded and started using Firefox 15 yesterday. My problem is that I use MSN hotmail for email and now it tells me server unavailable. Is there a way to only download MSN for hotmail. My guess is that Firefox and MSN both are grabbing too much memory at the same time. I don't want to change email address--would have to contact too many people and accounts. What is the answer?

FireFox is still lagging with an x64 version for Win7. Previous versions got into trouble with flash videos, especially on CNN. I am now using version 15. Hopefully things will be better.

Firefox lost me to Chrome for the same reasons you stated above. I for one am now very pleased with Chrome and I'm not willing to give the new version of Firefox a chance for now.

Downloaded & installed FF 15 a couple of nights ago on my laptop (dual core - 4 gb RAM) and first thing I noticed was that it takes longer to boot up to my AT&T/Yahoo web site than version 14 did. Otherwise I don't notice any difference.

I'm back to Firefox. Chrome is not letting me run anything using flash. It just sits there. I also left Firefox because of it being a memory hog. 15 seems to be better, but I'm sad to have lost Chrome. I really prefer it to anything else and I've been a long time Firefox user.

My problem with Chrome is Google's sticky tentacles running through my machine. Have you ever tried to uninstall it?

With Firefox, the memory hog, the only thing I do is sacrifice the browsing history. About twice a day I go to History > Show all history > Organise > Delete.

That normally does the trick. If not, close the thing, and run CCleaner.

When Firefox 15 first installed, it was so sluggish, I needed to uninstall it completely and then reinstall.

I downloaded it yesterday,(Firefox 15.0) and it wouldn't allow me to use my AVG Safe Search Engine.

Hi Bob - Have been using FF for about a year since POGO doesn't technically support the AOL browser...and it hasn't been too swift supporting ANY browser in recent months due to EA taking over and "fixing" things so it all plays "nicey-nice" with that infernal FaceBook thing. I take every update/upgrade FF notifies me of but the update only seems to work flawlessly temporarily before it starts to bog down, hang, freeze....necessitating a task manager shutdown attempt, which usually fails. I then have no other option but to pull the plug. When my computer boots up again, I have a blue screen and CHKDSK is running notifying me that "the volume is dirty" and windows won't boot up until after CHKDSK is done running. I then defrag and it takes up to 1/2 hour after this happens rather than the usual 10 minutes or so.....
I took the latest update yesterday (8/30/12), after which I had 2 hangs, one of which eventually resolved itself and the other shut down with task manager.....also had 1 complete freeze meaning it was time to pull the plug again since nothing else worked to shut it down. Ctrl-Alt-Del won't even call up task manager at this point!
I am far from pleased with FF and am really considering a change to Chrome. FF's latest "fix" has NOT fixed any of the issues I have been having.
Good luck to all! :>)

One thing I really like about Firefox is the way it manages its cache. Somehow there's never more than 2MB used when I clear the cache, whereas IE and Chrome usually have at least 50MB, if not more. For people like me who delete the contents of the cache frequently, that's not really an issue, but for those who don't, it could become a problem.