Is Mozilla Firefox 21 A 'Healthy' Browser?

Datamation ^ | 14 May 2013 | Sean Michael Kerner

[ShadowAce]

[OneWingedShark]

Interesting; but until they fix the browser from leaking so much memory it’s a broken browser.

[Spirochete]

Every version since 20 screws up the right-click context menu on FR pages.

[rarestia]

Leaking memory? I never notice, and I have FF up all day.

[mountainlion]

Waterfox seems to work good for the 64 bit system. I use AVG Free antivirus and Lorias anti Trojan. I can run both of them at the same time. Microsoft security essentials is also part of my defense. Mrt is also used. Windows Defender is shut off by AVG so I don't use it. I do get a not responding opening some pages form Microsoft security but it is not as bad with Waterfox.

[ShadowAce]

Wow. That’s a lot of cycles used to protect you from a badly designed OS.

[ShadowAce]

How so? What makes the context menu different on FR?

[Spirochete]

How so? What makes the context menu different on FR?

I often right-click and pick "back" or "reload" from the context menu.

The problem with recent FF versions is that only the top and right outlines of the context menu appear. It will finally work after several consecutive attempts. It appears to correlate with the mouse position over a table or image.

This bug manifests sporadically on various websites, but its pretty consistent here on Free Republic.

[ShadowAce]

Interesting. I’ve never noticed it. I’ll try to pay closer attention.

[OneWingedShark]

Leaking memory? I never notice, and I have FF up all day.

Sure does; I think it has to do w/ deallocating memory on closing of tabs [or navigating away]... flash-player and other such plugins might also be culpable.

I leave it up until about 80% of my memory is used up, then have to restart it.

[TomGuy]

I gave up on Firefox’s rapid release insanity at version 15.

My bank tunnel security no longer works with my old version, but if I upgrade, several of my extensions/add-ons no longer work.

Similarly, I quit upgrading Adobe Flash, because it and Firefox had too many conflicts around FF version 12.

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Firefox upgrades break more things than they fix.

[rarestia]

I haven’t been on any machines with less than 6 GB of RAM in several years, so I guess I never noticed.

[mountainlion]

I already lost one battle with the “Windows Backup’ virus so I decided to be safe. Is there any safe OS, not for long. I got a trojan every day and now I don't. I got lousy vista and windows 8 and am learning to work around them.

[CedarDave]

Damn it! Seems just as I get my Firefox working and looking like I want, they come out with a new version that will screw everything up: Puts the tabs on top, disables a bunch of addons, scrambles/hides my menus, etc. The only “good” thing is that because I’ve had to change it back so often, I’m familiar with all the steps needed.

[OneWingedShark]

I haven’t been on any machines with less than 6 GB of RAM in several years, so I guess I never noticed.

I have 6 GB in this machine, but I leave it on.... so it becomes apparent over a few days.

[ShadowAce]

Is there any safe OS, not for long.

No, but there are safer OSes than windows. I don't use any anti-virus, anti-trojan, anti-anything. I haven't since 2003. I've never got a virus/torjan/malware since then.

I don't have to "learn to work around" my OS. It works the way I do. YMMV, of course.

[OneWingedShark]

I already lost one battle with the “Windows Backup’ virus so I decided to be safe. Is there any safe OS, not for long. I got a trojan every day and now I don't. I got lousy vista and windows 8 and am learning to work around them.

OpenVMS is a solid & secure OS; though you'd need a VAX, Alpha, or Itanium to use it.

[rarestia]

I should clarify that I’m using Linux.

[PapaBear3625]

Leaking memory? I never notice, and I have FF up all day.

I notice, but I leave FF up over several days.