Firefox crashing about every hour....

[daveomak]

I'm thinking of changing.... BUT TO WHAT ???? WHO ???
What do you have and do you like it ???

MSN, YAHOO, ????

Help me out here... Firefox was great until about 3 days ago...

Conspiracy theory... Some liberal entity trying to shut them down ????

 

[SecondHandSmoker]

I'm thinking of changing.... BUT TO WHAT ???? WHO ???
What do you have and do you like it ???

MSN, YAHOO, ????

Help me out here... Firefox was great until about 3 days ago...

Conspiracy theory... Some liberal entity trying to shut them down ????

Dave,

What version of Firefox are you using? PC? Android? iOS?

 

[SecondHandSmoker]

For Android and iOS, clear the app's cache and data.
For PC, just clear the cache.
Note: Mozilla had an Android update on 1-24-21...hmmmm??

 

[JckDanls 07]

on my laptop.. I use google chrome ... just about like firefox

 

[daspyknows]

I have Chrome, Edge and Firefox all installed. Use Chrome mostly. If clearing cache doesn't work uninstall and reinstall. When doing the uninstall choose the keep data option.

 

[daveomak]

Dave,

What version of Firefox are you using? PC? Android? iOS?

It's on my PC......

...

 

[Norwester55]

I switched to Brave awhile back. Its definitely much faster than FF and more secure, just took awhile to get used to the layout.
https://brave.com/

 

[mike243]

My Lenovo came with Edge, been happy with it so far which is just over a year old now, no hard drive SSD instead

 

[SecondHandSmoker]

It's on my PC......

...

Dave,

Daspy has you covered.

Stu

 

[SmokyMose]

Been using Mozilla/Firefox for years and no issues.
My Lenovo laptop and Microsoft have been bickering a lot wanting me to use their browser....

 

[robrpb]

I have several browsers on my pc with Vivaldi being my primary browser.

 

[Fueling Around]

I switched to Avast Browser on the home PC It was OK, but then I changed search engine from Google (invasive) to DuckDuckGo and it was a win win,

 

[forktender]

All I use is F.F. on my laptop, nothing is wrong with F.F. is has to be on your end.

 

[daveomak]

Cleared the cache... followed other instructions... Edge, Fire Fox, Google, Duck Duck and Norton all seem to be getting along in harmony....
I will see what happens...
Thanks all for your suggestions and help.....

Dave

 

[daveomak]

I think Norton engineering solved my problem... I had them take control of my computer and fix stuff....
Seems, Microsoft Edge is the bully, so to speak... It causes problems with "competing" businesses... You CANNOT uninstall Microsoft Edge once you install it... There are work arounds but I'm not tech savvy...
So for $70 I had the Norton folks do the work around.. Took him ~1.5 hours to fool Microsoft into thinking my stuff was their friend... It's nice to have my desk top working correctly now...
The BS about Microsoft Edge being wonderful, is what it is.... It's just one more corporation forcing you to think the way they want you to think.. Not allowing competing software to widen your horizons...

 

[SmokyMose]

Edge came already installed on my new laptop. It's probably part of the OS. Of course the first thing I did was make Mozilla my default browser
Flags and exclamation points! "You don't want to do that ! Edge is what's best for your device!" . I did it anyway.
No problems. I just click the Mozilla icon and away I go. If I click a link it automatically goes through Edge, though, unless I'm already in Mozilla.
There's a permanent exclamation point on my taskbar :-)
I can't get my gmail account set up, though. Only the outlook one.

 

[daveomak]

Hey Mose... Don't you find that a bit commie!!! Think like I want you to think... Use what I tell you to use... Really ticks me off...
I should have NEVER uploaded Edge..

 

[bregent]

Any application could end up causing a conflict with other apps depending on what you have installed. I work in IT and in our extensive testing, Edge Chromium was the winner in terms of performance, resource usage and stability.

 

[SmokyMose]

Yeah it's annoying as all get-out, Dave, but what are you going to do? I'm no techie either. Big $$ in information harvesting.....
I've used and liked Firefox for years both at work and at home and will continue.
My daughter got so fed up with Microsoft she went to that "other" OS. She's going to see what she can do about getting my Gmail on the new laptop
next time she stops by. Until then I get it on my phone and I-pad just fine.

 

[daveomak]

Any application could end up causing a conflict with other apps depending on what you have installed. I work in IT and in our extensive testing, Edge Chromium was the winner in terms of performance, resource usage and stability.

Why can't someone "uninstall" edge from their computer ??
Monopoly of thought and freedom to search other ideas ??
Google screens/sifts searches to promote their ideals... for their "donors" or supporters... It suppresses freedom of thought and speech....
OH !!! maybe you work for Microsoft as a subcontractor...