By the way – Thunderbird sucks too! It crashes very often. Even Microsoft Outlook does not do that (every).

I use FF and Thunderbird on both Windows (Vista) and Linux (Ubuntu).

For defenders of the Firefox – guys, just run those two tests and you will see.

http://v8.googlecode.com/svn/data/benchmarks/v5/run.html

http://www2.webkit.org/perf/sunspider-0.9/sunspider-driver.html

Conclusion – Firefox must die or partly re-written as Opera 10.50.

Unfortunately, I am leaving. I have just installed Chrome which runs super fast (Probably for the next two years until Google will add more functionality and ruin it)

BYE BYE DEAR FOX

I am about to dump Firefox. Once it was great, but it seems that with every update it has been getting worse and worse. Years ago I had many plugins running and this was on an old PC. It ran fine. Nowadays I have a very fast PC and only a few plugins run (because of the sluggishness), however, it just start to crawl after a while. Sometimes after hours, sometimes after minutes. Sometimes when visiting a page with a lot of multimedia, sometimes when visiting very simple pages. CPU usage is usually low when it’s starting to slow down, lock down or crash although the memory usage is huge imho. That still shouldn’t be a problem since the PC is loaded with RAM and there is plenty free.

Other browsers work fine, drivers etc. are up to date, the HDD is frequently defragmentated, there is no spyware, bloathware or other crap installed and there are no unneeded services running. It’s Firefox.

Maybe Firefox should return to its basics and leave additional functionality to plugins. Oh, and Firefox team: please do not advice people to upgrade when most of the plugins are incompatible. There are quite a few updates in a year and it is quite annoying having useful plugins disabled over and over again. Maybe an online plugin compatibility check to run first would be a good idea.

But for now SRWare Iron rocks!!