Firefox Question

[Glorify Him]

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I quit with Firefox for all of the above reasons. I've used Chrome now for over a year and find it the most issue free of all the browsers. Also use an adware blocker and a do not track on my AVG.

[Guest]

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It says it is the Adobe Flash when I look it up in Windows Task Manager and I can see the RAM it is using (CPU 25%). I can shut it down and the browser behaves normally but no flash (CPU 1-4%)

[Glorify Him]

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It says it is the Adobe Flash when I look it up in Windows Task Manager and I can see the RAM it is using (CPU 25%). I can shut it down and the browser behaves normally but no flash (CPU 1-4%)

Exactly. I kept crashing when I played Castleville and it was actually Zynga Games that recommended Chrome to me. I've long ago quit playing the game but just don't have the issues.

[Guest]

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Exactly. I kept crashing when I played Castleville and it was actually Zynga Games that recommended Chrome to me. I've long ago quit playing the game but just don't have the issues.

GH, like you I started using Chrome some time ago, also, but I like to use Firefox because of its Developer add ons and being 2nd in use to IE, I have to see what web sites, I am building, look like.

Only problem I have with Chrome is the occasional Flash crash but otherwise it is very efficient and streamlined IMO!

[Issachar]

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Resuming older thread ..

For the reason John stated in post #12 about "RAM hog", and the continuing issue with firefox not scrolling while selecting text when the mouse gets to the bottom of the screen, I quit using firefox.

Now .. fast forward to the past two months. I NEED to be able to open various email attachments for work .. e.g. xls, pdf, doc, etc. I have yahoo email. Back around the start of December 2013, I can no longer open any attachments. Thinking a box somehow got check'd or uncheck'd and after much hunting with no success, I went through the misery of contacting yahoo. It really wasn't too bad once I got to a person on live chat. After getting nowhere, I gave him permission to "get on my 'puter". In the end .. they still won't open. He suggested firefox as a "test." I downloaded it (ver.26 I think) and went to email and voila .. attachments open. So I went back to firefox. I notice in Task Manager under Processes, firefox is using 300+ MB of RAM where as IE9 is under 100 MB. Those vary some of course .. AND, the scroll still doesn't work. I copy and paste a lot and so I use the select text/scroll a LOT. I guess I have to use IE for most internet use and firefox for email.

Issachar, thinking the internet/software folks need to stop and leave well enough alone ..

[Guest]

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Ish,

I use yahoo email more than hotmail and gmail and have no problem opening attachments. I get quite a bit of spam in it, however, but it is good about directing what I label as spam to the spam folder.

Still use chrome the most for every day internet use, firefox for banking and IE to view web site builds and Google rankings.