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Why does Firefox suck so badly?


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Syd Lexia
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PostPosted: Jan 10 2012 02:09 pm Reply with quote Back to top

People always use to tell me that Firefox was way better than IE, and for awhile I bought. But over the last several updates, I've noticed something. It isn't.

Firefox is a massive resource hog possibly with a memory sink. Whereas IE consistently uses around 80,000 K of memory, Firefox starts off at around 100,000 K and will slowly creep up to 143,000 K or more at which point it will cause horribly slowdown problems on my computer. Why do people like this piece of shit?
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JoshWoodzy
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PostPosted: Jan 10 2012 02:20 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Because most people that have it aren't using a shit computer.


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Fighter_McWarrior
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PostPosted: Jan 10 2012 02:38 pm Reply with quote Back to top

And that's why I use Chrome
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UsaSatsui
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PostPosted: Jan 10 2012 02:39 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Because Microsoft is evil. Duh.
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Syd Lexia
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PostPosted: Jan 10 2012 02:43 pm Reply with quote Back to top

JoshWoodzy wrote:
Because most people that have it aren't using a shit computer.

Ha! But doesn't that actually prove my point further? The big complaint about Microsoft software has ALWAYS been that it's like a fucking Hummer: large, inefficient, and filled with a ton of unnecessary shit that make people with small genitals feel better about themselves.

For Firefox to be better than IE, objectively it should be leaner, more efficient, and not filled with bullshit that normal people don't care about. If it is none of those things, how is it better?

And while Firefox is OBNOXIOUSLY inefficient on my computer, it's still inefficient on every other computer as well.

This isn't fucking Crysis. This is a web browser.
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Klimbatize
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PostPosted: Jan 10 2012 03:03 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Use Chrome and never look back.


Pretty much the greatest thread of all time: http://www.sydlexia.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14789

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JoshWoodzy
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PostPosted: Jan 10 2012 03:07 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Yeah, I use Chrome as well. It's fantastic.


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Klimbatize
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PostPosted: Jan 10 2012 03:09 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Whoa, what the hell? Since when does your name have capital letters, woodzy?


Pretty much the greatest thread of all time: http://www.sydlexia.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14789

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The Flaming Schnitzel
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PostPosted: Jan 10 2012 04:02 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Plus, the last update made Chatzilla incompatible so that sucks. I have Chrome but I'm lazy and stick with Firefox anyways...


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LeshLush
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PostPosted: Jan 10 2012 04:45 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Firefox has a handful of seriously great add-ons. That's why I dig it.
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UsaSatsui
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PostPosted: Jan 10 2012 04:46 pm Reply with quote Back to top

The Flaming Schnitzel wrote:
Plus, the last update made Chatzilla incompatible so that sucks. I have Chrome but I'm lazy and stick with Firefox anyways...

Really? I'm still using ChatZilla...
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Beach Bum
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PostPosted: Jan 10 2012 04:55 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I use Chrome too. Firefox was okay, certainly better than that steaming pile of shit called Internet Explorer. Tried using IE after installing Vista back before Vista was known to be a piece of shit and IE would freeze up constantly. Took me three tries to get to the Firefox webpage and get it downloaded before IE froze and I've never looked back. Chrome doesn't have a memory leak though and it has the only addon I used from Firefox in Adblock. Plus it has the snazzy little homepage with your 8 most common webpages visited, making it superior in my opinion.
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The Flaming Schnitzel
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PostPosted: Jan 10 2012 05:20 pm Reply with quote Back to top

UsaSatsui wrote:
The Flaming Schnitzel wrote:
Plus, the last update made Chatzilla incompatible so that sucks. I have Chrome but I'm lazy and stick with Firefox anyways...

Really? I'm still using ChatZilla...

Do you have Firefox 9.0.1?


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Cattivo
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PostPosted: Jan 10 2012 06:39 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Firefox is pretty good in my opinion. IE always apes its design changes. There's the adblocking which is so good that it's sometimes too aggressive, it has a better interface, and it isn't as susceptible to hackers.

I'm sure GF will come on eventually with a better defense of it, as my knowledge of detailed computer stuff is limited.
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PostPosted: Jan 10 2012 06:54 pm Reply with quote Back to top

The Flaming Schnitzel wrote:
UsaSatsui wrote:
The Flaming Schnitzel wrote:
Plus, the last update made Chatzilla incompatible so that sucks. I have Chrome but I'm lazy and stick with Firefox anyways...

Really? I'm still using ChatZilla...

Do you have Firefox 9.0.1?

I have 9.0.1 and ChatZilla works fine. I am in the IRC right now.


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The Flaming Schnitzel
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PostPosted: Jan 10 2012 07:30 pm Reply with quote Back to top

@om*d wrote:
The Flaming Schnitzel wrote:
UsaSatsui wrote:
The Flaming Schnitzel wrote:
Plus, the last update made Chatzilla incompatible so that sucks. I have Chrome but I'm lazy and stick with Firefox anyways...

Really? I'm still using ChatZilla...

Do you have Firefox 9.0.1?

I have 9.0.1 and ChatZilla works fine. I am in the IRC right now.

Whaaat? I tried downloading it and it told me it was incompatible. Idk.


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Klimbatize
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PostPosted: Jan 10 2012 07:54 pm Reply with quote Back to top

The Flaming Schnitzel wrote:
@om*d wrote:
The Flaming Schnitzel wrote:
UsaSatsui wrote:
The Flaming Schnitzel wrote:
Plus, the last update made Chatzilla incompatible so that sucks. I have Chrome but I'm lazy and stick with Firefox anyways...

Really? I'm still using ChatZilla...

Do you have Firefox 9.0.1?

I have 9.0.1 and ChatZilla works fine. I am in the IRC right now.

Whaaat? I tried downloading it and it told me it was incompatible. Idk.

You need to go to the title screen, which is right next to your SD card.


Pretty much the greatest thread of all time: http://www.sydlexia.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=14789

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The Flaming Schnitzel
Title: Tsar of all Russias
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PostPosted: Jan 10 2012 08:05 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Klimbatize wrote:
The Flaming Schnitzel wrote:
@om*d wrote:
The Flaming Schnitzel wrote:
UsaSatsui wrote:
The Flaming Schnitzel wrote:
Plus, the last update made Chatzilla incompatible so that sucks. I have Chrome but I'm lazy and stick with Firefox anyways...

Really? I'm still using ChatZilla...

Do you have Firefox 9.0.1?

I have 9.0.1 and ChatZilla works fine. I am in the IRC right now.

Whaaat? I tried downloading it and it told me it was incompatible. Idk.

You need to go to the title screen, which is right next to your SD card.

Hahaha. That's a good one. Razz


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@om*d
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PostPosted: Jan 10 2012 08:20 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Did you have ChatZilla before you upgraded to 9.0.1? If you did, you should not have to download ChatZilla gain. I didn't have to.


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Mr. Satire
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PostPosted: Jan 10 2012 09:41 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Personally, since I have a good computer, the heavy memory usage of Firefox was hardly an issue most of the time. Although one time I did have it suck up around 1GB of RAM due to a bad plugin.

If Firefox's memory usage bothers you, use Chrome. It's very lean and fast, and as with almost all browsers (excluding IE) it is leaps and bounds ahead of IE.


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The Flaming Schnitzel
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PostPosted: Jan 11 2012 01:22 am Reply with quote Back to top

@om*d wrote:
Did you have ChatZilla before you upgraded to 9.0.1? If you did, you should not have to download ChatZilla gain. I didn't have to.

No, I didn't. This is a new computer so I had to download Firefox from its site and when I tried to download Chatzilla, it said it wasn't compatible. It doesn't matter now, because I've switched to Chrome.


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PostPosted: Jan 11 2012 02:12 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Fighter_McWarrior wrote:
And that's why I use Chrome


Klimbatize wrote:
Use Chrome and never look back.


These.


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Murdar Machene
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PostPosted: Jan 11 2012 02:41 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I agree that firefox is a memory hogging piece of shit. I just use it because I like to be able to disable javascript, and use addblock.
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PostPosted: Jan 11 2012 04:39 pm Reply with quote Back to top

Syd Lexia wrote:

Ha! But doesn't that actually prove my point further? The big complaint about Microsoft software has ALWAYS been that it's like a fucking Hummer: large, inefficient, and filled with a ton of unnecessary shit that make people with small genitals feel better about themselves.

My wife has small genitals, and she uses Firefox.


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Greg the White
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PostPosted: Jan 11 2012 07:00 pm Reply with quote Back to top

I use Firefox if I'm watching ad-heavy videos, and I don't feel like wading through Chrome's shitty archiving tool.


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