Juho Tunkelo › Comments

We spoke in Qaiku about an invitation but you're not on the list. Sen email to me helgekeitel at gmail.com if you're interested. There are interesting things going on. - Helge V. Keitel

ah, that was what you referred to... I haven't been there lately, no.. sent you email about it, saw this on twitter.. - Juho Tunkelo

I'm so glad I'm not the only one. I've tried disabling all extensions... but then why not Chrome? - Richard ¿digame? Walker

I have had issues with firefox for a while. I don't use extensions and it is the slowest thing around. I I have found Safari and Stainless to be the most reliable browsers that I use. Chrome is way to unstable. It crashes within a couple minutes every time I try to use it. - Corey Harris

I stick with Firefox cuz she knows all the special tricks I like. Opera is my mistress... she's always waiting in the background for the times I lose my patience. :) - Gus

Works OK here on Linux with more than 60 extensions installed. My machine is pretty old and has only 1GB of RAM. I think it's some add-on or combination of add-ons that causes it, not FF itself. - prozacfield

Chrome is simply not ready for prime time, especially for us Mac kids. I only have FF extensions installed that I really need/use; nothing extraneous. I've also - like Corey and Richard - tried disabling *all* my add-ons for extended periods and the issues persist. It's the product, not the add-ons. Finally, if I can't use my add-ons, I might as well not use FireFox, because that's the main reason I've stuck with FF so long. - Anthony Citrano

lol - echostreamer

Holy crap, 100% CPU usage? Wtf are you doing on Firefox?? 0_o - .You

Chrome's great on Windows - not so good on OSX - Don Bonaddio

I found CoolIris was slowing down my Firefox so I uninstalled it and installed it on Flock instead. Now when I need to use it I just go to Flock. I think I'm going to install anything bloaty that I like on Flock. Then keep Firefox really zippy with only greasemonkey and a few key extensions while going to Flock for the other stuff whenever I need to. - Thomas Hawk

Thomas Hawk: How you find that ex. made your FF slow? - Amin

Agree with Thomas that CoolIris slows down FF but removing CoolIris doesn't seem to make FF much more usable from here... - Anthony Citrano

I've already given up on FF ... i stuck with it way too long and the problems just wouldn't go away. So far i am liking Chrome on the Mac for what i want it to do ... that is not to say that i feel seriously crippled trying to use Chrome like i used to use FF. Can't wait for it to become stable enough for regular use. But i wonder where the FF i knew has gone to :( - Bhowmik Shah

the extensions and plugins can really wreak havoc on FFox... especially on windows. switched to Mac and using a minimal set of extensions, much better now... - Juho Tunkelo

And then there was a flash of light, and Chrome.. - Rohit

I moved to Chrome on Windows at the beginning of this year, and Safari 4 on Macs. Their speed at opening is similar, and paramount for me to the point that I am willing to do without extensions. I found that FF has become as bloated as IE and - unfortunately - as much of a security risk. One good drive-by malware install off an ad, and it took me days to recover. That simply doesn't... more... - Cole Jolley

If you keep upgrading Firefox instead of reinstalling every major release, the gunk accumulated over time *will* wreak havoc with your Firefox. If your Firefox starts behaving strangely or annoyingly, try a complete reinstallation: Uninstall, remove your Firefox profile dirs, then reinstall. This is not Firefox's fault per se, but because of complex interaction between Firefox, extensions, and plug-ins. Not to mention some extensive datastore evolution (e.g., migration to SQLite) - Pandu ● IT Optimizer from fftogo

I gave up on Firefox and switched to Chrome. - Mike Reynolds