Is Firefox Burning Out? - Comments Page 5

I still use Firefox, but not as my primary browser. Chrome can be irritating at times, and it does not seem to perform as quickly or seamlessly as Firefox BUT strange Chinese characters don't sporadically appear at the top of the browser as they do in Firefox!

After the last 2 Firefox updates, quite a few people (myself included) have complained that Chinese characters run across the top of the screen. It has supposedly been traced to the McAfee extension in Firefox. But what gives with that? It doesn't make one feel more secure and in fact is downright uncomfortable.

I'm sad because I used to LOVE Firefox. It was "safe" and then all the updates started until it seems like every two weeks there is another version.

Never even considered IE. There's something about it that makes me just not feel secure due to its past history.

I'm using Google Chrome, but would hate to see FireFox fold.

To say that Brendon Eich was NOT forced out at Firefox is a serious rewriting of the history of that occurrence. He was in fact forced out and the willingness of Mozilla to bow to pressure by a very vocal and extremely aggressive, constantly aggrieved tiny minority was plenty of reason for me to stop using their product.

Take a look at the dates when Firefox's decline started accelerating and you will find there are many people who have voted with their feet. A lot of people may be afraid to antagonize the Politically Correct far left but they will quietly and many times permanently abandon those organizations that allow themselves to be used by the real 1%.

I would add that their refusal to continue to develop for Apple OSX and to build an iOS version also does not help their market share.

I would add that their refusal to continue to develop for Apple OSX and to build an iOS version also does not help their market share.

Firefox is my preferred browser. I never use IE and use Chrome only for a couple of games. Google feels too intrusive.

Having the World Wide Web had changed the Internet forever. I had been using Archie and a slew of Archie's friends. Gopher and ftp were my preferred Internet apps.

I have used many browsers over last two decades of the World Wide Web. At the very beginning was Mosaic. Then Netscape came out, but it was not free. Then IE came out, it was a derivative of Mosaic, and it was free. When Opera came out, they charged, but it was fast. When Firefox came out, since I really preferred Netscape, it was a natural progression to Firefox. I used Firefox since it was released. I mainly use Chrome now, but I don't like that it is 32 bit, so somethings don't work well on Chrome. Is that ever going to be fixed? The one thing that essentially broke me from Firefox is that due to some copyright and other issues with Mozilla is that there wasn't a Firefox for the Raspberry Pi. Ice Weasel, I really like the name play on Firefox, was the solution, but it is essentially Firefox. Since Chrome is the one truly multiplatform browser, it not only runs under Windows, but on the Apple side, on OS X and iOS and on several Linux distros, Chrome is the better solution for me. It took me a while to get used to the omnibox, but it turns out to be the best feature. Others have followed suit. To me the Raspberry Pi issues killed my enthusiasm for Firefox.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Chrome is available in 64-bit version now.

What I hate is all of the major browsers are forcing those absolutely hateful "Tabs" on us. Since they cannot be disabled on Firefox, Chrome or IE 11, I am stuck using IE 10. We should, at the very least, have the option of disabling them.

I generally use Chromium instead of Firefox simply because there are one or two minor differences which I prefer. However, the Tor Project uses FF and I have no problem with that at all. It really is sad to see FF losing market share. I have tried many different browsers and FF is my second favorite, even though Chromium is getting slower (are they starting to follow Google in their design?).

Also, to follow a previous comment, for an all-in-one suite Sea Monkey is pretty good.I think it would be more popular if more people were aware of the FOSS community and the great software that is available as alternatives to the big names.

I use Firefox and Google and like both. Firefox has really neat add-ons. I would hate to see it go.
It seems slow at times, however. I have recently tried Maxthon and I am happy with it. Has neat built in apps like resource sniffer and image capture. I recommend it for a basic fast browser. I still use the others for different reasons.
Thank you

I started with Netscape when didn't even know what a "browser" was for, then tried IE - never liked either. Found Firefox and have used it ever since. Recently had recurring problem shutting FF down so tried Opera (not impressed and missed many things of Firefox), then tried Chrome. Chrome repeatedly crashed my system, even after uninstalling and then doing fresh install from new download. Still crashed - went back to FF. Same annoying problem even with reinstall of FF but otherwise it worked fine right up until Windows XP went into continual reboot! Removed hard drive to HD dock & copied all my files to external HD, ran extra virus checks & MalwareBytes checks - no problems. Discolored area on face of HD makes us suspect a surge even tho it's only used on APC Back-UPS. May be time to replace the APC unit.

Updated FF on my laptop and it is running fine. About to break in new machine with Win8 preinstalled and FF, AVG Internet Security & MalwareBytes will quickly be added. Don't change what works! Going to update old machine with new HD and reinstall XP to run in-house for music & other old programs.

Just getting to your newsletter and as usual find it very interesting. I have used FF since it's beginning. The ability to install extensions to customize my browsing experience was one of the best features. I do use Pale Moon once in a while if I'm having trouble with a certain web page on FF. In the last 6 months or so FF has been crashing on me a fair bit. I send the crash reports to them in the hope they can figure out what's going on. I'm not interested in any other browser and hope they can pull up their bootstraps and get back on top.

Thanks for all you do.

@ ST channing 12/03

I would like to thank you for taking the trouble to let me know of the existence of 'Xmarks' as an independent platform/browser. I will research this for my needs.

I use Firefox almost exclusively. I live in a rural area where full time internet is not available - I know, I know, but there are still areas in the US where is is true, and south GA is one of them. I use a Verizon 'hot spot.' I've upgraded to 10gbs, and still go over that some months. In some instances I have to print things to be able to read them. Maybe it's me doing something wrong, but I have not been able to 'select' parts of a blog, or other articles to print - it simply won't print. It may print the entire article, but I don't want to print 25 pages when I only want a small bit of it. Firefox allows me to select a section and print it, Google won't.

I stopped using Mozilla /Firefox when the board of directors forced out the CEO for having given a donation for an old friend running for office several years prior! I simply will not support ANY company that takes political revenge on its people. Uninstalled from all my computers and every computer I work on ever since.

Firefox with DuckDuckGo is the only way... I just get that uneasy feeling of what's Google really want from me when I use Chrome...

This will make you think twice about Chrome.

http://www.netcompetition.org/antitrust/google-on-chrome-we-dont-need-your-permission

The desktop browser has never gone away. But Mozilla became caught up in so much turmoil over internal bickering and fragmenting into projects that never appeared fully engaged that they totally lost track of Firefox desktop user group. The first nail in the coffin was a frequent upgrade schedule that kept breaking extensions. This was totally a misstep for Firefox because it totally alienated probably the most loyal users of Firefox. When users end up installing Chrome or even using IE instead of Firefox. That's a problem and a potential convert to another browser. I doubt IE swayed many Firefox users, but no doubt Chrome with some very good extension support has. I do not use extensions myself, but Firefox totally feels less of a browser then Chrome in daily use. Every time I have tried Firefox I fail to see much worth in using it over Chrome. The numbers say Firefox is a niche browser and it really is unfortunate Mozilla has messed up a good thing.