Posted on 03/22/2018 10:02:42 AM PDT by Allen In Texas Hill Country
Sorry for the vanity but my frustration with Firefox drove me here. I'll look on the internet too. After I get my airline reservations done. I've switched over to Pale Moon but wanted to check here.
Over the last few months Firefox goes into process loops that lasts for a minute or two or more. This morning I tried to cross check prices on airline flights using several tabs and Firefox just like dies looping. I don't want to do a reset 'cause I lose settings. Did a reset a couple of months back and lost all my Reminder entries. :<(((
And you can use the free well used MozBackup tool to back up all or parts of your profile, then restore them to a new profile after following the instructions in the last post. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/back-and-restore-information-firefox-profiles
Saw this before and probably need to try it. Thanks’
May I ask why you are still using XP? What are your hardware specs?
All I know is Firefox is (compared to Chrome) S-L-O-O-O-W and a memory hog.
That’s all the evidence I need to NOT use a slow, bloated browser.
If it works for you.. but if I tried to make Chrome do what Firefox does then i would have about 400 separate processes running. I need a multi-tool more than a race car, though Firefox ESR is not normally slow for me, even with multitudes of tabs, though having a 40core 4.3ghz CPU and 16GB ram and a SSD HD helps, thanks be to God. I just need to restart it after a good amount of use, since i rarely shutdown the PC.
But if you mainly want is speed to browse a few sites, then Firefox Quantum should be about as fast as Chrome
As I posted earlier, my eyes, not your post, votes for Chrome - not FF - as being visibly faster.
btw, Task Mgr also demonstrates FF is a memory hog.
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