So, Firefox is rubbish, does a decent browser exist?

[ProDave]

For years and years, I used Opera. It was fast, efficiant, reliable and it worked.

However my old version started having trouble with some sites, most notably internet banking and Gumtree, so I updated to the latest version of Opera which was hopeless, slow, and kept crashing with "sorry this page has crashed" and also gave me two BSOD's on the pc. So that had to go.

Thinking a lot of people were having success with Firefox, I thought I would try that.  I've been using it for a couple of weeks.

But that's unreliable.  It won't keep me logged into thing like forums and ebay reliably.  Some mornings it will start up fine and you are still logged in, other days you are logged out. sometimes you can refresh a page in the middle of the day and you are logged out.

The final straw was yesterday I had compiled a shopping list in an on line builders merchant. I expected to review and submit my order today, but my shopping basket was empty.

It looks like it just keeps forgetting cookies.  Opera never did that to me.

So Oera is mow carp, Firefox is caro, I don't like Chrome for other reasons.

So can anyone either fix my Firefox problems, or recommend another borwser that just works properly as it should without all this silly nonsense?

 

[Sharpend]

I quite like safari? 

 

[steptoe]

Yep,

All your problems can be fixed,

It's not a browser problem you have,

it's an OS  problem you have.

FF works flawlessly for me, as does most other browsers I use.

 

[calltronics]

Whichever browser you use it's the tools that make the difference.

I use chrome quite happily for years now.

But I can recommend two of my many recommendations: -

1. Xmarks Bookmark synchronizer
   
2. LastPass - password manager
   

 

[Richard-the-Ninth]

I have been using firefox for years on about 4 computers, never had the problems you have described on any of them. To be honest I would say it is your computer / something on it / your operating system...........what OS do you have?

 

[ProDave]

It's my old office computer with XP (yes i know)

It's the latest version of FF, 44.0.2  Perhaps that's the problem, it's "new" and not debugged, but you don't get much choice but to download the latest version.

the logging me out bit is just a nuisance, after all you can set Ff to remember your login details for things like forums so it's not a big deal to log in again. It's forgetting my on line shopping basket that I am angry about.

 

[steptoe]

I'd say it probably is a bit of a clash between XP being so old as to may be incompatible with some of the newer stuff in the latest FF

but, I know very little of such magik as is in the computery box,  :C

 

[Richard-the-Ninth]

nothing wrong with xp. I still have it AND fire fox on another pc............and that also works fine, i think its something else.

 

[ProDave]

Try resetting firefox and disabling all plugins

I looked at that option, but it wipes all my bookmarks etc and does not restore them.

The only plug ins I have are Add Blocker plus, and Ghostery. I could try disabling them.

 

[calltronics]

so load up xmark first, then you have a sync ability across all your machines for your bookmarks

 

[Blue Duck]

Does no one like chrome? Always found it very good, can't honestly recall ever having a problem!

Yes it's Google....and they are tracking my browsing habits but I have nothing to hide so I don't care.

 

[calltronics]

I've used chrome for years now, ever since firefox started slowing down. If you combine google tools and google+ all the applicable tools available, I believe the result is second to none.

All my machines are synced, bookmarks, passwords, plugins etc... So wherever i go or which ever machine I use once logged in my web experience is the same.

It is simply brilliant, easy and recommended.

Now I know that this post will result of cries of tracking, security and all that...... but seriously if google wants to know how many naked bodies, or sheep, appear on my screen, they are sadder than me and are welcome to the information.

The advantages certainly outweigh any cries of wolf for me!

 

[Blue Duck]

Their privacy policies are readily available and are written in plain English rather than the 134+ page legal document that you must accept when upgrading IOS / OSX.

:C

 

[Marvo]

It's my old office computer with XP (yes i know).....

I'm using Opera on my laptop which is also WinXP (SP2) and it's perfect. I think it might have crashed once in the last year on some very dodgy porn site I accidentally visited.

Your browser instability is likely caused by one of the plug-ins like Adobe Flash for example.....which is possibly the crappiest, buggiest, least stable, least secure piece of code known to mankind. Even more unstable than the online version or the regs....

 

[ProDave]

I'm using Opera on my laptop which is also WinXP (SP2) and it's perfect. I think it might have crashed once in the last year on some very dodgy porn site I accidentally visited.

Your browser instability is likely caused by one of the plug-ins like Adobe Flash for example.....which is possibly the crappiest, buggiest, least stable, least secure piece of code known to mankind. Even more unstable than the online version or the regs....

Adobe flash was indeed an issue with the latest version of Opera.  In spite of the fact I had a perfect working version of Adobe Flash with my old version of Opera, when the new version was downloaded it would not recognise that. It kept insisting I needed to uodate adobe but when you followed the link to do so it said you had the latest version.  Yet another reason why I very qiickly abandoned the latest version of Opera.