Should You Download Firefox 15? - Comments Page 2

I use Firefox as my primary browser. I guess I must have some option set to "Automatically Update," because the other day, it installed automatically.

I'm happy with it.

What I've noticed since the FF15 auto download is that it takes the browser forever to open in the morning or after the browser been closed for a while.
My homepage is Yahoo and the NoScript add-on is disabled for Yahoo. NoScript also sent through a new version about the same time as the new FF came through, so I'm not sure which is slowing down the browser opening.

I have very low trust in Google. Yes, I have a tablet with Android, and Chrome is fast.
However, Google wants to know everything about us so they can control us and virtually own us.
They have gone the wrong way and have gone against their stated mission of "Do no evil". Now they support censorship as long as they aren't censored. That is called elitist.

Sorry Bob. I stand corrected. It was FF 16 that I downloaded and installed a couple of days ago. Of course it's the beta version. But observation is the same. It works fine but seems to boot up more slowly than 15 did.

Chrome failed to allow attaching some items in Ancestry and had to use FF to accomplish them. IE6 is the latest version I have been able to install without rummaging into the registry, so I'm waiting for Windows 8. I like Chrome for its speed but there are drawbacks.

I tried Firefox 15 and seemed to work fine until
Adobe Flash Player stopped working every time I tried to watch a video. Went back to an older version of Firefox and everything is working fine.

I downloaded a couple of days ago and it seems to work faster also I haven't seen the annoying signal that Firefox is consuming a bunch of memory. Wait and see.

Hi Bob,
Thanks for this update.
When I finished the update on Firefox I discovered I had FF 16 not FF 15 as your article suggests.
:-)
Karl

I switched to Chrome when I kept getting held up on Firefox constantly with the script errors. I switched to Chrome and added my bookmarks so I figure there's no reason why I should switch back.

"Fewer crashes are another benefit of this housecleaning." That is not something that would move me to try Firefox. I don't want ANY crashes, not FEWER.

is firefox 15 compatible with all the windows Xp versions?
I want to avoid installing it and then have the work of restoring my old version.
Terry

Have been using 15.x for a month after updating from 3.6.x; big improvements. Updated to new security release 16.0 last night.

Google boots much faster than Firefox. I don't like waiting for Firefox to come on-screen, not knowing if it'll boot finally or not... With Google, once I click on the icon on taskbar, the Google page appears on my screen almost instantly...

I'm running W7x64 and I switched to Waterfox a couple of months ago. It's a lot faster than Firefox since it's built for 64 bit machines, but the FFX15 improvements haven't been incorporated yet. Pity. I have to do an "end process" bailout at least once a day, sometimes twice (I have both FFX and Chrome up at all times). That's a bit of a PITA, so it'll be nice when (if?) Mozilla gets Waterfox updated. I can't sacrifice the added speed to go back to FFX though.

I have been using Firefox and it never crush.

During the installation of latest version 15 it showed, this version do not support Skype call or call to call. I did not recall exact wordings of the message. Other than that it is working fine.

I too have been plagued with Firefox chewing up memory, freezing, the infamous 'not responding' notification... I used Chrome for a while but downloaded Firefox 15 after hearing about what was in it.

So far, it seems to be much less of a memory hog, but IMHO, it still eats up far too much CPU time. In particular, if I have several tabs open for a spell with Facebook being one of them, CPU usage shoots up to 50% (Intel 3.0Ghz Quad core). Most times, closing the Facebook tab will reduce memory use, but a fair number of times I will have to close Firefox and restart it.

Overall, it's noticeably better, but there is still much room for improvement.

Poppy

LastPass doesn't work / win 7-64 BIT, VAIO COMPUTER

I have been using Firefox as my primary browser for years. I can definitely attest to the memory hog label, but right now, I have 20 tabs open and FF15 is only using 13% of CPU and 25% of available RAM. Loads much faster and seems smoother. Take heart and give it another try.

Bob, I switched from Firefox to Chrome months ago, for the same reasons you did. I even removed the application from my MacBook Pro, but only recently did I think to check for deadwood in my Cache directories, and found more than a gig that Firefox had left behind there! I'm not too eager to switch back again. Maybe Chrome doesn't seem such like a memory hog because I've been sharing my machine with my roomie (while his is in the shop), and he uses Safari; -that- comparison is appalling.

With the new version, does it still have a "Work Offline" feature? I play an on-line game called Travian and this feature is great for launching multiple waves of troops against an opponant at the same second.