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Old 11-12-2017, 06:44 PM   #1
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giving up on Firefox

It just goes grey and locks up so much anymore. Anyone else experience this?

Switching to Chrome.
 
Old 11-12-2017, 06:52 PM   #2
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Switching to Qupzilla.
Very fast and nice looking in KDE (native QT app).
The only thing I'd like to add to Qupzilla - gTranslate add-on.
 
Old 11-12-2017, 06:56 PM   #3
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Switching to Qupzilla.
Very fast and nice looking in KDE (native QT app).
The only thing I'd like to add to Qupzilla - gTranslate add-on.
Yea. I forgot to mention that Firefox gets "slow" frequently these days. Been using Chrome today and no problems. Might try Qupzilla.
 
Old 11-12-2017, 09:44 PM   #4
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I haven't had any issues with Firefox on any of my systems (either on bare metal or in VMs), except for the constant nagging about https. I have v. 56 on this machine, v. 54 on another one, and I'm not sure about the VMs.
 
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Old 11-12-2017, 09:56 PM   #5
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How about uzbl?
http://www.uzbl.org/
Mind I've done several tests with all the multi tab browsers I could get to run and chromium is memory hungry and its very buggy when you are trying to load a locally saved page.

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It seems I can't find my benchmark.
I'll have to post back some other time.
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Old 11-12-2017, 10:03 PM   #6
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I haven't had any issues with Firefox on any of my systems (either on bare metal or in VMs), except for the constant nagging about https. I have v. 56 on this machine, v. 54 on another one, and I'm not sure about the VMs.
Ditto.
No problems here.
 
Old 11-12-2017, 10:09 PM   #7
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One good thing, there are a lot of alternative browsers.
 
Old 11-13-2017, 09:18 AM   #8
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I haven't had any issues with Firefox on any of my systems (either on bare metal or in VMs), except for the constant nagging about https. I have v. 56 on this machine, v. 54 on another one, and I'm not sure about the VMs.

I have 2 systems, and the older one is the one that Firefox gives me problems on.
 
Old 11-13-2017, 10:21 AM   #9
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Switching to Qupzilla.
Very fast and nice looking in KDE (native QT app).
The only thing I'd like to add to Qupzilla - gTranslate add-on.
I installed Qupzilla this morning. Seems to work good so far.
 
Old 11-13-2017, 11:11 AM   #10
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I will say I switched to v57 beta (releases tomorrow), and it was SIGNIFICANTLY faster than ESR.
 
Old 11-13-2017, 11:29 AM   #11
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I've just gone back to firefox 57 and it's fast!
 
Old 11-13-2017, 11:33 AM   #12
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I've just gone back to firefox 57 and it's fast!
When it comes through to the Ubuntu updates, I'll try it out.

Michael
 
Old 11-13-2017, 11:56 AM   #13
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Firefox on both of my fedora installations works fine. Maybe try to launch firefox without addons, too check if there might be an addon causing the problem?
 
Old 11-13-2017, 01:39 PM   #14
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I've just gone back to firefox 57 and it's fast!
This. FF 57 is awesome. Official release is tomorrow (Tuesday, 11/14).
 
Old 11-13-2017, 07:10 PM   #15
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will see how FF 57 is fast, but I doubt it will be as fast as qupzilla.
FF 52 ESR takes 9 seconds to start and navigate to home page (google.com)
Qupzilla takes 2 seconds.
280 Mb of RAM for firefox and 80 Mb for qupzilla.
3 addons for FF - adblock, video downloader and gTranslate. And there is no difference enabled these addons or disabled,
 
  


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