Does Firefox have swine flu????

[monmouth]

I just switched over to IE, and had to re-log into DU. Try and find that password you stuck somewhere you don't remember. Have anew one now. Anyway, this has been going on for over a week. I always update, and since the last one things have not been good. Constantly with the "no connection"...Anyone else?

[Zywiec]

1. Been having trouble with Firefox since MS updates last night. n/t

[MNDemNY]

2. Mine is fine, try re-downloading.

[tridim]

3. IMO FF has sucked ever since v3.x

[rucky]

4. Firefox has been draining my RAM lately.

[OwnedByFerrets]

8. Yours too??

I thought it was just me.

[ikri]

9. Lately?

Firefox has always been a RAM hog. I've got 4 tabs open at the moment and it's eating up 165mb of RAM, Nero is transcoding an AVI in the background and is using less than that.

I've heard people describe it as the best RAM stress testing tool available. And yet it is still better than IE, Chrome or Opera.

[TreasonousBastard]

17. Not so much better than Opera-- 40 tabs open...

and with the mail client, RSS, and newsreader going Opera's using 102MB.

That's still a lot of memory, but it's a lot of work being done, too.

[a kennedy]

5. Yup, it sucks.....

[monmouth]

6. Thanks all. I'm presently on IE and am amazed at how much better

it's running. I'm disappointed in FF, but at least I'm not losing my connection every two minutes.

[TreasonousBastard]

7. Firefox has its problems-- try Opera...

www.opera.com

It's got just about all of what Firefox has whithout having to load extensions, and even includes a decent email program.

I've got IE, Opera, Safari, Chrome, and Firefox and use them all for one thing or another, but Opera is the one that works best most of the time.

[monmouth]

13. Many thanks. Shall give it a try...n/t

[ohheckyeah]

10. Here's a discussion about fixing Firefox 3.5.2

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=242x26504

[madrchsod]

11. chrome--lean and mean

opera is pretty fast for a full figured browser. i gave up on the fox after version 2

[rucky]

19. I just downloaded Chrome

my available RAM doubled and this shit is smokin' fast!

:thumbsup:

[elocs]

12. I went back to FF 2.0 when my printer wouldn't work with the new version.

It works fine for me now.

[madokie]

14. I haven't had any problems for quite some time, in fact I can't remember when last

Of course I'm using IE8 and plan to continue.

[blogslut]

15. No problems here

Of course, I have a couple of helpful addons installed:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623

[formercia]

16. Only in Windoze

Was having the problem you described. Rebooted into FreeBSD and everything works fine. Nothing else was changed, same machine, IP, router etc.

[monmouth]

18. Many thanks to you all..n/t