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Is Firefox 3.5 crap?
July 7, 2009 | 1:16 pm
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By David Rothman
Already the bug reports are piling up. How’s Firefox 3.5 running on your system? Mine crashes almost as often as older Firefox versions do. The developers reportedly will be rushing out a fix.
I’m rooting for Firefox to add ePub capabilities and other e-book-related features. But If Firefox is to be a reliable e-book reader, suitable for nontechies, then the developers need to try a lot harder.
The scariest bug report—which I haven’t confirmed: “I’m also receiving frequent ‘Server Not Found’ errors messages when trying to load new pages. Worryingly there are reports that FF3.5 has corrupted XP, and impacts on other browsers installed due to the new DNS prefetching.” This is via an eWeek commenter.
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it crashes all the time on my computer. When I use build-in search it crashes every other time I enter a query. When I use google toolbar search box, it is better.
My main problem is that with 6 tabs open it takes over 25% of my 3.2 GHZ processor, at times even 80% and over 200 MB memory. A real resource hog. IE works WAY more stable.
I think I will abandon FF for good.
I installed 3.5.1 a week ago, and it has been crashing every hour, sometimes twice an hour. I have finally gone back to 3.0.11 and no crashes so far.
Incredibly slow! I’m like what the ****? It is so bad I’ve switched to chrome with no problems. OMG! It is unusable on my machine. Takes forever to load pages and at 1/4 of the time it hangs. What the heck did they do?
The 3.5.1 ran fine on Windows, but I only have Debian Linux x64… It’s very hard to find 64 bit builds of firefox.
It seems to me as if FF 3.5 is less robust than 3.0.11 in some ways. I have a bad habit, I often end up with 50+ tabs open at a time some times as many as 200. To me it seems that 3.5 handles this type of load with less grace than 3.0.11 – it tends to crash or be sluggish, under these conditions.
Oh by the way this is my experience even with FF 3.5.1
I have the problem with pages not loading correctly. The DNS prefetching issue happens to me all the time. I tried using (Insert other browser name here) but FF 3.5 seem to mess them up too. I went back to FF 3.011(Which worked perfectly) hoping the issue would be sorted, but after updating to 3.5.2 again and the issue still exists. I’m 32 bit Windows 7, but the issue exists on Vista Premium and XP Prof also. Come on FF SORT IT OUT!!!!
Even after the 3.5.2 update, it crashes about once every 10 minutes on my Vista machine. It’s getting so bad I’m thinking about making IE my default browser again.
This is a sad day for me. Ever since I first switched to FF, it has been my default browser. But today, after upgrading to 3.5.2, I dont see any improvement, and Chrome becomes the default. FF still hangs for about a minute after it opens, freezes while scrolling, and crashes a few minutes later. I think they took a really nice piece of software, added some funky gadget (prefetch) and boom !
crashes way too often and is very very slow. running on vista
I’m about to give up on Firefox after having been a loyal user for many many years. I can’t even function with the latest update. I’m tired of abandoning my sessions and having firefox crash during important online work. Running XP Pro. I have no add ons other than Norton Toolbar which of course is not installed since the 3.0 update wiped out compatibility. I wish I could go back to Firefox2. I just downloaded Safari. I’ll see how that goes.
Now that I switched to windows 7 from Vista, ff seems to be okay, at least without any crashes thus far…but yeah, it uses up way too much memory
FF 3.5.2 crashes on open attempt from Linux FC 8. Reverted to 3.0.13 which works OK. No idea why FF 3.5.2 crashes
@Wish Firefox would stop updating!
You can download old versions of firefox here. http://www.oldapps.com/firefox.php?old_firefox=7
I just rolled back to FF2
2 main problems i have with firefox 3.5-3.52 is that it will not go fullscreen on a youtube video or any other video in the browser without crashing all the windows…and popup window scripts lock in place. outside that it is running fast. I have reverted back to the trusty 3.013.
FF 3.5 crashes, crashes, crashes, even when I am reading a page that I have been reading for several minutes. Why did I upgrade? Woe is me (or, “Woe am I”)!
Running Mac OSX 10.4.11, Intel Core Duo 2.1 Ghz, 2 Gb RAM
Firefox 3.5.2 is extremely slow and won’t load many pages on a Win 7 64bit system. The beta worked much better on the system. I have been a faithful firefox user however on my home computer (Win 7 64bit) I can no longer tolerate the problems with firefox and I don’t use it anymore. Thinking about going back to the older version.
My Firefox starts off fast, but after about an hour of intense usage (I’m a web developer), it slows down to a grinding halt. I notice that it chews up memory (has always done this), and when it grinds down to a halt, it starts consuming 25%-50% CPU for no reason. Pages are a pain, and the only way to rectify this is to restart. I’ve tried some workarounds, but so far, no results to speak of.
this version of Firefox, 3.5.2 crashes much more than all the previous versions. It’s annoying
Installed 3.5.2 last night and I regret making the decision to upgrade. Frozen screens (wont let me type addresses), takes its sweet time loading pages. For the first time in yonks I am seriously thinking of dusting off my old faithful – Opera. Pity, I love Firefox but what to do?
I un-installed the skype (4.1.0.141) extension add-on and Firefox is screaming away! I wonder why….
IMO it is a bug ridden piece of crap.
I never wanted this POS update.
I had a previous Firefox version running on my machine, worked perfectly. I get regular update notices all the time…so figured this one too was just an update.
Turns out it installed a new Firefox version 3.5.2 and since them, pages either do not load right, or require multiple attempts to load, or load with the frames fragmented. Happens regularly with Yahoo.com and MSN.com.
This browser is a royal PITA.
I hope they issue a bug fix soon.
I am abandoning FF 3.5.2 for memory issues and CPU hogging. Page loading slow, delayed typing in text boxes and frequent crashes.
Asus G1 – WIN Vista 32 bit – 2.0 Core Duo – 2GB Ram.
I was streaming a football game in FF (single tab) and it was really jerky and slow so I closed FF and used Chrome. Chrome was smooth and fast.
I am now using Chrome as my default browser after being a very early adapter of FF and recommending it to multitudes.
This is a sad day.
I installed 3.5.2 on my XP Pro at the office and FF freezes when I click on anything. I uninstalled and reintalled FF 3.011 and its freezing too.
What is going on? This is a sad day, I adored FF when it worked!
Does Chrome have spell check? LOL
Running on XP Pro 2002 SP3. Since upgrading to 3.5, I’ve had the program crash many times. Once it crashes a reboot is needed to restore stability. It seems to me that there is some interference if IE is open at the same time for any reason.
Session manager has been a help (rather than losing all tabs), but not a fix.