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Hi just finished watching the latest WAN show and it seems like every nearly every episode Linus mentions how he has trouble with firefox.

 

I personally never have a problem and wondered it he has all his plugins up to date.

 

I found out about this webiste ages ago and it helps you to identify out of date plugins.

 

.https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/

 

I no most tech wizards here probably no about this site but didnt think it would hurt to post a link.

 

 

 

 

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People still use Firefox? I've been using Waterfox for awhile.

How good is Waterfox compared to Firefox or Chrome? I'm interested of maybe trying it out.

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How good is Waterfox compared to Firefox or Chrome? I'm interested of maybe trying it out.

 

This. 

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How good is Waterfox compared to Firefox or Chrome? I'm interested of maybe trying it out.

 

This. 

 

It's basically 64bit Firefox built from the ground up. It's not completely flawless, but no browser is. I've only did minor tweaks in about:config as far as messing with it since I wasn't too fond of scrolling speed. The other downside is if a plugin doesn't have a 64bit edition, you're out of luck. Unfortunately for me, this means I still need to open Chrome for Google Voice. Thankfully, I don't use Google Voice that often for this to be a huge issue. On the plus side, my ram usage was cut in half vs using Chrome and the memory leak issue that was common in Firefox is not that big an issue for Waterfox.

 

If you do decide to try, it will import your settings, plugins, extensions, personas and bookmarks from Firefox. I've been trying it for half a month thus far after a recommendation and I'm content with it.

 

 

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It's basically 64bit Firefox built from the ground up. It's not completely flawless, but no browser is. I've only did minor tweaks in about:config as far as messing with it since I wasn't too fond of scrolling speed. The other downside is if a plugin doesn't have a 64bit edition, you're out of luck. Unfortunately for me, this means I still need to open Chrome for Google Voice. Thankfully, I don't use Google Voice that often for this to be a huge issue. On the plus side, my ram usage was cut in half vs using Chrome and the memory leak issue that was common in Firefox is not that big an issue for Waterfox.

 

If you do decide to try, it will import your settings, plugins, extensions, personas and bookmarks from Firefox. I've been trying it for half a month thus far after a recommendation and I'm content with it.

 

I have decided to try it!

What do they know of England, who only England know?

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Any fellow Pale Moon users?

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I have decided to try it!

So will I!

 

Edit: It's as unstable as Firefox (AKA crashes frequently). Hurr... Freezes on every single web page.

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Guess waterfox it is

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Nice, I've been thinking about going back to Firefox but I'm going to give WaterFox a try.

 

Edit: WaterFox is aight. It's still not as fast as Chrome (to be expected since Chrome pulls plenty of trickery to be that fast). I think I'll keep it tho.

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Any fellow Pale Moon users?

 

So will I!

 

Edit: It's as unstable as Firefox (AKA crashes frequently). Hurr... Freezes on every single web page.

 

Pale Moon is also within the family, maybe you'd have luck with that? Sounds like something else is at fault somewhere, though. Maybe it's best to start fresh with a new profile and add plugins onto a clean build.

 

 

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Pale Moon is also within the family, maybe you'd have luck with that? Sounds like something else is at fault somewhere, though. Maybe it's best to start fresh with a new profile and add plugins onto a clean build.

Apparently Shockwave flash was crashy as hell. I had the same issue with Firefox and couldn't fix it back then for some reason. Now it's fixed. And while YouTube videos play a bit slowly (a little under 30 frames per second, not much under, but definitely noticeable), but now Waterfox is at least more stable

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Apparently Shockwave flash was crashy as hell. I had the same issue with Firefox and couldn't fix it back then for some reason. Now it's fixed. And while YouTube videos play a bit slowly (a little under 30 frames per second, not much under, but definitely noticeable), but now Waterfox is at least more stable

 

So it was Adobe that crippled everything.

 

 

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So it was Adobe that crippled everything.

Yep.

 

It's a bit confusing when it says "Shockwave flash is out of date", and then seeing in Adobe's website there's Shockwave player and Adobe Flash player...

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Yep.

 

It's a bit confusing when it says "Shockwave flash is out of date", and then seeing in Adobe's website there's Shockwave player and Adobe Flash player...

 

For future ref, have the latest adobe flash player installed and for more stability, right click on a video, go to settings and navigate to the tab with hardware acceleration and disable that. Flash is really buggy..

 

 

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People still use Firefox? I've been using Waterfox for awhile.

 

I seriously thought you were joking. Watefox is an actual thing. Going to give it a try.

 

I'm using Chrome right now and don't have any issues with it. It's speedy. I don't care for Firefox that much.

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Firefox?

Waterfox?

Chrome?

I use maxthon!

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i use waterfox for more than a year now, can't complain about anything so far ( and yeah, i'm one of those with all the tabs open...^^ )

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