Is It Too Late For Firefox? - Comments Page 4

I too have been around since Netscape and continue to love it. I currently have 76 tabs open (down from 216) a couple of weeks ago; and I can have tabs on the bottom which is very convenient for page hopping. If they ask me to pay to keep them from going under I'll do it. I'd never miss the money and I live on the computer. I support Wiki so why not FF? My 2 cents and I'll never miss that either.

I used Netscape, and Internet Explorer. Now a Mac person, but prefer Chrome to Safari. Still use Firefox from time to time, but Chrome is my default browser. Also like Opera for some things.

I`ve used Firefox for over a decade and will stay with it. No major problems during that time. Bookmarks are a tad clunky, but that`s about all. Have tried the rest, but I came back to Mozilla. Can`t figure why their market share is dropping if a browser gives you all that you require. Aggressive marketing?

MS missed the boat a long time ago. Chrome is a resource hog and Google is too intrusive.

Firefox has been my browser of choice for the last 5 years and will remain so. I contribute to Mozilla.

I have used FF for many, many years and love it. Love the add-ones too. My only complaint is that it is "unresponding" far too often, but that may be a computer problem, I just haven't figured out how to figure that out yet. Otherwise, love FF!

I too, like Daniel Wiener, Mike H and BSOH used Firefox until the handling of Brendan Eich. I went to Google and have been using it ever since. In all honesty - I had started messing around with Google for awhile before I went whole-hog on using it! I do like Google and for my search engine, I use Duck Duck Go. I started using DDG long before I used Google regularly.

I am happy with Google. }:O)

FF has been my number one for years. I do use IE for some things - can't stand Edge though. I've been playing around with Vivaldi a bit recently but FF just flat out does what I need with a minimum of fuss.

I've used Firefox since forever it seems. Tried all others none compare not even Pale Moon etc for everyday use. Never had a problem others mention - must be computer not browser or some incompatible program but so afar Firefox plays nicely with everything and I donate as worth it.
One thing I find is on some online retail stores it overwrites so need a 2nd browser and fall back on IE for that - but never set IE up just keep it handy like. Chrome is Google and we avoid it as search engine Bob so why use the browser when it does exact same thing - spies. Makes no sense to me and it isn't a patch on Firefox. Which is 'ours' not driven by any for profit org.

I've used Firefox forever, and Netscape before that. Have tried Explorer but never liked it. I usually have some 300 tabs up in Firefox and rarely experience any crash problems with it, and if it does happen Firefox has always quickly booted back up with all my tabs in place, every time. I won't be switching from Firefox unless they quit operation.

I have been an FF user since forever. I will continue. Chrome is still a resource hog.

I'd give up my favorite Margarita-on-the Rocks, Rather than stop using my favorite FireFox
{Supposed to rhyme like "If it ain't Boeing, I ain't going"}

Yeah! Me Too: "Sorry for the second post, but I read this article and responded to it using Firefox."

I've used FF forever. I tried chrome for a week last month because I had read it was so great. Well to me it was hard to use. After playing with it I decided to keep using FF.

EVERYONE NEEDS TWO BROWSERS!

If one comes lose and goes crazy (corrupted file or disk space) you will need another browser that's working in order to re-load your existing current 'favorite' browser.

I use FF, but have been slowly, oh so very slowly, migrating to Chrome, so my desk-top folder marked 'Browsers' has both of those, IE and Avast! Safezone 1 browser. I keep them all up to date as I remember to use them every so often - (not that Advanced System Care doesn't remind me of IE by making the scanning process twice as long, and always somehow turning up twice to thrice the stored data, even though it's not even my third choice for a browser and is used accordingly.

When an important page fails to load, or a page is taking far FAR too long to load, often I'll just switch and open it with another browser.

owning a computer with a single browser which has failed to load properly for what-ever reason is like being on patrol and out of ammo - you do a lot of praying and swearing and your blood pressure goes up a tad - like about 100 points either side - and none of that will get you out of the jam. All it takes is a secondary or Tertiary browser to finish your vital search WHILE downloading your replacement -- brand new -- from the OEM's web-site.

When I worked I traveled on the very FWD roads scattered along and among the multitudes of middle of North Central Nevada roads a LOT (and alone save my Dog-Friends) -- so just believe me when I say I always carried multiple sources of water AND multiple sources of GETTING water with me as a 'standard load'. Even if it was a quick and simple 20 mile one-way-hop to talk to a neighbor or play cribbage and drink what ever was being served that evening.

I look at browsers like horses, they get you around to the places you'd like to go - so it only makes sense to have more than one for any number of reasons - simple ones like one starts to go lame and you don't have time, or the skill to pick out a small pebble or stone - to it's become wounded by some mystical process, exactly like your computer may one day find itself hobbling into camp with 3 out of four cores working absolutely perfectly and the fourth one causing it to stumble through some blue-haze just when the map you are trying to get delivered NEEDS to be delivered - so I also keep a second computer that generally just runs World Community Grid 24/7 on stand-by, ready to have the monitor and keyboard swapped, and I'm ready to continue what ever some L-T thinks is worth the life of a private machine.

I've found in pushing 70 years that having and maintaining at LEAST two of very important things has saved me far Far FAR more than most people can imagine.

Since this seems to be Back-Up Month (or what ever) perhaps it might be worth the thought to keep a back-up copy of a second browser, or even a back-up of your humanitarian work so the well simply cannot run dry because you have made certain that there is more than enough to cover you and your projects, with a LOT of cubic feet (programs and machines upon which to run them) to match your requirements AND the dreams which fuel then.

It's battery is dead, but I still have my screaming Mac Plus back-up, and while I don't keep it running 24/7 I also have my spare Apple II, dual disk, 256K RAM green on black screen that's ready to report for duty after a light dusting off of the case (she gets air once a year like the others in 'readiness condition green'. You'd be surprised at how Often I am asked if there's a way I can use it to check out an old game or grade sheet program a K-12 teacher has found laying around he oice.

Just like driving a car into an even almost remote region, you always like to hope (at best) that you have a filled spare tire, the right sized lug wrenches, and a jack. If you have pets or kids, you probably would always make the room for a 'water bottle' and spare.

It makes sense to do the same with the programs you use on an everyday basis - no need to back-up entire sections of disk, simply pull up IE or FF or Chrome to replace the other and keep on with the production of what ever it is you think, or have been told is, of 'vital necessity' without a hitch or glitch. While browser number two is doing the search, browser One is fixing itself or reloading the newest program.

The second or third browser takes virtually no room in the Over arching schema of things to keep on your desk top for quick and easy swap-out while on a data exposition.

These days nearly everyone can have a second computer ready to rock-n-roll if primary fails, it may not go 90 MPH, but then the one you are using rarely ever needs to go that fast either; and EVERYONE -- without exception -- can keep at LEAST ONE SPARE browser carried on the external bonnet ready to change-out in as much time as it takes to double-click it's icon and bifurcate it's task, first window continues your search, the next window dutifully downloads and fixes your favorite browser in the background as you scribble your note taking and cites just waiting for that blue screen of Death you just received to fix itself and be up and running at 100% just like you will be when it fixes itself.

There is always a mystical side to reality, and this is just another simple mystical way to alleviate, and take with it, the problems and Karmic misunderstandings caused by the first browser crash.

Just remember, often these things happen not for YOU and your growth, but to help others around you to learn how to model you in what and how to recover from -- and act during -- a catastrophic and near miss recovery operation.

Remember the Boy and Girl Scout Motto (British and American) "Be Prepared". What better way than to build your computer programs and usage around the belief in the absolute necessity of redundancy : If it can fail, it will fail at the most inappropriate moment. How nice it would be to simply double click an icon and keep working losing little but the load time of your program. That's faster than most people think.

I use Firefox every day. Some websites crash and burn with Safari but not with Firefox. Because I have so many bookmarks on Safari, I don't have the time to reconstruct everything on Firefox or even Chrome. Firefox almost always responds lickety-split. I hope Mozilla stays alive. I don't want everything under Microsoft or Google.

I really hope FF doesn't go down. It's the best browser by far for Android.

It great add-ons like ublock origin. Chrome for Android doesn't have add-ons.

Also FF for Android has a great readability mode which Chrome for Android doesn't have either.

Opera for Android may have some of these features but they are not as good as FF.

I have used Firefox since it was Firebird, and Netscape before that. Still my default and most-used browser, even though it has become a lot more unstable in the past year or two. It freezes and crashes a LOT, and for reasons I have yet to determine. But its extensions are far superior to the other browsers, and that is enough reason for me to stick with it. However I also use Chrome and Vivaldi. They both work well, and I like them. And it is important to have options. So I hope Firefox manages to survive.

I hope Firefox stays in use! It is perfect for me. Google Chrome is okay, but I am not wanting to have my whole life with one company, from mail to web surfing. You spell the doom of Firefox, and that makes me very sad.

I use Firefox as my main browser it does everything i want without all the Microsoft issues, I do use chrome for one or two apps that will only run on chrome but Firefox is my preference. I hope that with even a diminishing share of the market that it can keep on keeping on.

For me, FF's biggest advantage over Chrome is easy access to all bookmarks (not just the few that fit into the bookmarks toolbar) through keyboard shortcuts: Alt+B then whichever keys get you to the bookmarks you want to open.