Let me throw this out there: I am really enjoying using the new Firefox 4.
However, some of my teammates have been complaining about the new Firefox, and some have even jumped ship to Google Chrome!
The main complaint has been to do with Firefox 4 consistently crashing, although for me it has only crashed once since I installed it a couple of weeks ago.
So what gives? Does Firefox 4 suck, or am I just listening to the wrong people?
What are your thoughts?
#noflamewar
Geek for Him says
It was a huge boost from the previous versions BUT due to an all important list of plugins that kill Firefox overall, I have moved onto Chrome. Unwillingly but FF is now un-installed on all of my machines at this time.
Eric Frisch says
I love it! Haven’t had any problems with crashing and I love the sync feature (I used to use the Google Browser Sync add-on, but it hasn’t been compatible for many, many versions, so this is a great feature to me!) The only problem I have is that a few of my add-ons still have been updated to work with Firefox 4, but I’m confident they’ll get there.
James Brooks says
Eric, so glad I’m not the only one!
Ben Miller says
Yay! Once I tweaked the interface the way I like (Status-4-Evar), I love it. Haven’t had a crash yet, and it seems much faster than Firefox 3.6.
James Brooks says
Yay!
Jared Erickson says
I’ll say … I have been a long time fan of FF.. I said i would never move unless Firebug had a decent port to another browser.. I had FF 4 crash on me 10 times in a row.. it was probably some of my doing… but come on! so i said i would give Chrome a week.. it’s been about a week and i don’t think i will go back to FF..
I feel like i’m on a rocket ship with Chrome 🙂 the developer tools are amazing ( a little learning curve from firebug) bye bye firefox!
wvpv says
I agree. Firefox 4 is too little, too late. Chrome has browser sync, developer tools, etc.
I’m all Chrome except for cross-browser testing.
The whole orange tab/button thing in the upper left is a UI disaster, IMHO.
The only thing I miss: browser profiles. And it’s only at home on the PC that my wife and kids use.
Matt Phelps says
I personally like FF4. Like Eric there are still a few add-ons that are incompatible, but hopefully they’ll release new versions soon. It still seems to have a memory leak, through. If I don’t restart FF after using it heavily for a while it can easily use over half a gig of RAM.
I use FF for development, and with all the add-ons it takes a while to load and can slow it down. I use Chrome (with no add-ons) for general browsing.
Tom McFarlin says
I’m a big fan of Mozilla and I’ve been with Firefox for years, but when I began to do more client-side heavy development, resources became a commodity that Firefox didn’t handle well.
When the first version of Chrome came out, I tried it and dug it but it was terribly immature from a developer’s perspective. I’ve tried each new version as its come out and it gets better with every single [frequent] release.
In January, I decided to give Chrome and honest try and I never looked back. It’s speed, process model, development tools, and UI are excellent. As much as I’m pulling for Firefox and love Mozilla, I don’t see myself make the switch back.