I’m fed up with Firefox. I have 5.0, and it freezes up, and I can’t even kill it using the Windows Task manager. plugin-container.exe seems to be the offending part, but neither that, nor firefox.exe can be killed. Eventually, my whole system freezes up.
I went to use Google Chrome instead, but you can’t even fucking download it with Javascript turned off. I have javascript turned off for several sites, including Google, that do too much crap with javascript. I don’t want a browser that’s going to make me use javascript all the time.
So what other options are there that are any good?
You may want to try reinstalling Firefox. Most slowdowns and crashes are not caused by the software itself, but by your profile getting corrupted. If you told it to delete your User information when you uninstalled, that should fix the problem.
Then you can use NoScript with Firefox to handle the JavaScript problem. As far as I know, no other browser will allow you to enable and disable JavaScript on the fly on a per-site basis.
I’m trying Chrome right now. I downloaded it from cnet.com. In Firefox, I used the YesScript plugin, which let me turn off Javascript for specific websites. It’s just a few that abuse it, and generally, they become decent sites once it’s off.
From that location, Manage Exceptions seems like it will do the same. Great! Thanks!
One vote for Seamonkey. It’s got most of the good stuff about Firefox, but IMHO it works a lot faster. Adblock and Noscript both run well in it, plus if you used Netscape back when that was a thing, the UI will be eerily similar.
I go to your link, but it offers me to download Google Chrome. If I go to the Chromium link, there doesn’t seem to be anywhere to download it unless I want to build it myself.
why not go back to Firefox 3 or some other older, better version? Here is a full list of them available to download http://www.oldapps.com/firefox.php
It’s not surprising when Microsoft products go down the Indian hill in time into unusability, but here we have “et tu, Firefox”. Even an American open source project manages to deteriorate nowadays :eek:
Well you know about Firefox, Chromium, Chrome, and Opera has already been mentioned. So I can just mention the other browser I’ve used occasionally. Midori
I was an Opera and Firefox user for years, but I’m addicted to Chrome for one major reason: effortless bookmark and extension syncing. I change computers a lot. Chrome makes it magically easy to move from one to another; just log in and my customizations pop up within a minute or two.
Opera is wonderful out of box, but it lacks support for a few things I really like, like AdBlock and some features of SpringPad (an online notepad / organizer). Opera’s interface is a small step ahead of Chrome, in my book, and I miss some baked-in features, but Chrome is too darn good to go back to Opera yet.
Firefox is just a little unwieldy and (afaik) doesn’t support elegant syncing of extensions.
I’m using Seamonkey right now. I actually like Chrome better, but it is a bit of a pig on a 1gb XP Nettop. I still use Chrome on computers with 2gb and up.