Has Firefox lost its flame?

Like what jangelo said, FF uses up too much resources and if you’re running a machine that has a less than 128 MB of RAM, it’s not worth it. From what I know, Flock uses up less resources. However, I don’t have any problem running FF on Ubuntu.

Here’s the difference between Firefox and I.E

Firefox- better browsing experience, faster to load, you can still restore all sites you visited when your PC shutdowns automatically, less pop up ads, nice tabs, safe browsing experience

I.E- old PC users still use this, If you are a web designer you still need this in your PC to test if your website works correctly without limitations, easy to refresh webpages compare to mozilla.

WIE7’s browser layout is just so uncustomizable and radical—I can’t find the stop and refresh button no matter how long I’ve been using it. Performance-wise, Opera is the real winner—and it also passed the Acid2 test.

What makes me stay with Fx is its simplicity and customizability. Don’t get confused as I’m not trying to be ironic—I look at Opera and there is so much buttons and menu items I really can’t or don’t use, and options/preferences are a little bit confusing. Plus, Fx has built-in session saver, easy hassle-free updater, a variety of privacy and security features, plus addons [WebDev toolbar, colorzilla, FireFTP, Foxmarks, Image Zoom, ShowIP, UA switcher, etc.]

I’ve been waiting for Fx3’s release with the Gecko 1.9 engine—more standards support and passes Acid2, et al. :)

I do hope I could try Safari, though.

I am not using Firefox so for me (since I am bias.. LOL) it will not lose its fire even I just recently went back to Internet Explorer… because of IE7.

I like my desktop to be very simple and neat. IE7 has a very simple interface compared to FF and most of all… IT LOADS FASTER than FF. I don’t know why but even if I make a fresh installation of FF, it is still slower than IE.

@ ==>> Junnel: Interesting that you find FF loading faster than IE7. Perhaps that on some othe platform than Windows XP? I use FF, so don’t think my comments come from a Microsoft worshipper, but FF laods slowwww compared to IE7, and Yuga even posted reslts of some tests here a few months back that showed the truth .. FF often takes twice as long to render a web page.

Generla thought on this is the FF is stuck in the “over-improvement” whirlpool that so many good products fall into. Version 2 is a great step back from 1.5. It hogs resources like crazy, the wonderful fail-safe restore features are misisng, because FF tried to take on the session reload tasks that a couple good plug-ins were handling better, and (as someone else noted) FF gobbles up a horendous amount more screen space with “unk” by default.

For guys who run technogeek sites FF is great, but on general interest web sites my FF users are not growing rapidly .. IE is still the browser of choice, so that’s what you need to design for.

Interesting how every time someone makes a post about FF a religious jiad erupts … they are both good browsers and they both have faults, no need to get so worked up over it.

A majority of my users use Firefox, but then again, most are United States based.

I think with a majority of the Filipinos who use the internet cafes, Internet explorer will still be the most used browser by a landslide simply because most owners of cafes haven’t switched to Firefox.

I have to agree with some regarding Firefox, I use it almost exclusively on my computer, and it does have a tendency to freeze up once in a while.

But, IE’s tabbed browsing, in my opinion, is much easier compared to FF.

IE is still slow, the main difference from these two browsers is IE wait for the whole page to load. and as for firefox, it starts to flame the first few elements as it loads giving you an idea how the site looks like instead of waiting in IE. Firefox parin ako!

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