Is Firefox is the best or not?

I've been using Firefox since last year and it is better than IE, but recently it's been acting funny poor video playback or not at all, and "not responding" every 3 minutes, or being very slow. I don't have any spyware/viruses so I don't know what's the problem?

 

For me, its the best browser.

 

I think it is, there are so many add ons and it's much more stable than IE and chrome

 

Its all on personal experience. Just try and if you like stick with it.

I personally always use Opera. Its the fastest and has the best password feature. Thats all I need. I use FF for the PR toolbar.

 

After first using of Firefox Mozilla I have never used any other internet browser anymore...

 

Sounds like FF is doing to you what it does to me if I try to use it as my daily browser - I wouldn't even have it installed if not for testing websites since it's such a buggy unstable mess.

In terms of trying to stabilize it, first rip out EVERY add-on you have added - because they are not maintained with the same level of... proficiency as gecko itself, they are the leading cause of crashes. The only two I find don't completely destabilize FF is the web developer toolbar and firebug.

Do NOT visit image gallery websites, especially if you try to save lots of images, and in fact don't even try downloading files with it - how FF handles file downloads is buggy, slow and frankly ALSO a leading cause of crashes and memory leaks. Not bad enough their file manager is a joke, no they have to route EVERYTHING through it.

Hell, on it's own FF is LESS STABLE than IE - IE only being unstable if it gets hacked, FF being unstable all by it's lonesome.

As evidenced by the "memory leak that's a 'feature' not a memory leak that ok, it was a memory leak so we are changing memory managers for 3.0" that STILL results in it going to sucking down a whole CPU core on it's own when the only tab open is google, resulting in having to kill it's process.



Only tab open at that point was google - and I let it sit for 20 minutes to see if it was actually doing something, it wasn't. Happens to me every time FF's memory use passes 160 megs, which is why I only use it for rendering testing and close it between sites.

It got a LOT better with 3.x, but it's still a buggy steaming pile of crap for use as a daily browser - at least for me... and before some jackass says get a better computer (which 99% of the time is the first response to posting this problem) when a Q6600 with 4 gigs of RAM isn't 'enough' for it, **** you.

 

I love firefox and dont use anything else

 

I was so used to firefox that I didn't want to try anything else, including chrome... but firefox ate so much memory and that constantly pissed me of.
finally few weeks ago I downloaded chrome and after second minute of use it became my default browser.
I would say it's mad fast, but let's be real, it just works as every browser should

 

deathshadow, I'll look into clearing recently downloaded add-ons but like I said I've only been having problems recently.

 

Well I think Firefox is good for its own things..and IE for its own. Firefox is quite slow at loading up sometimes..whereas opening more tabs doesnt really affect it as much as it does on IE..
I use both though

 

I use Firefox simply because everything looks good with it.

 

I use mainly on IE7 and use Firefox when necessary

 

Firefox is the best, but it uses too much resources man

 

I started using Firefox during the time IE doesn't have the multi-tab feature. I never looked back. I love firefox.

 

I would rate firefox my number #1 browser, just as LinkBuilder2009 sais, it has alot of cool add ons you can play around with, & it has a nice feel to it loads fast and performs well.

 

Firefox is far from the best! I like using CometBird. It's basically a mod of Firefox, but with new options and features.

 

I agree that Firefox is the browser

 

I use IE, but have seen a few bugs recently. I do like Mozilla, but it takes a while to get fully adjusted with it!

 

I swear by Firefox. As far as email goes though, I use outlook but I am not really happy with it. I'm thinking of going with Thunderbird in the near future.

 

I'm starting to not like it. Doesn't save all logins and pages don't seem to load as fast as others. I just downloaded opera and I think I like it.