Windows 10 and Firefox Web Browser

[gorfias]

Are you having difficulties with Windows 10 and Firefox?

If so, is it a failing of Firefox to maintain a good, functioning web browser, or sabotage by Microsoft trying to undermine a competitor?

Any links you can share are appreciated.

 

[bluegate]

Don't have any particular problems when I'm using Firefox on Win10, what kind of problems are you looking for?

 

[Scarim Coral]

I have no real issue other than one of two videos not loading but ok on Chome in the past or a couple of time, the loading cycle appear but that cos I have too many tabs open at once.

 

[Worgen]

I haven't had any issues with firefox on either of my windows 10 machines myself. Maybe you have an add on running that is preventing certain functionality. I have a script blocker on mine so on certain sites I need to allow certain scripts in for them to properly run.

 

[DoPo]

As bluegate says, what problems are you facing? Without saying that, it's a very wide blanket statement that we cannot really help with.

I certainly have no problems, aside from the Firefox consuming more and more memory and needing a restart, but that's been happening for literally years now and it's on multiple platforms.

 

[gorfias]

Don't have any particular problems when I'm using Firefox on Win10, what kind of problems are you looking for?

As bluegate says, what problems are you facing? Without saying that, it's a very wide blanket statement that we cannot really help with.

I certainly have no problems, aside from the Firefox consuming more and more memory and needing a restart, but that's been happening for literally years now and it's on multiple platforms.

Freezes and crashes, notice that scripts have stopped running. I am heartened to read other people are not having this issue.

Happens with both my desktop and an Acer laptop. Both have Windows 10 64bit on them.

 

[aureloiz]

I found firefox on windows 10 very slow. [http://mr-ginseng.com/maca/] It's strange because I have the 64bit version. [http://siriusblack.org/spiruline/]

 

[MysticSlayer]

Freezes and crashes, notice that scripts have stopped running. I am heartened to read other people are not having this issue.

Happens with both my desktop and an Acer laptop. Both have Windows 10 64bit on them.

Maybe there's an issue with an extension you're running.

 

[FalloutJack]

Strictly speaking, if Firefox is not fucking up for everybody's browser, then either it doesn't like Window's 10 or the other way around, or Windows 10 is just shit.

 

[Saulkar]

I have not used Windows 10 so I cannot help you there but here is a question. Why was I able to run Firefox on a 2006 Windows XP Acer Laptop with 2 Gigs of RAM with over 3000 tabs and it would load almost instantly and was incredibly stable.

Now Firefox will crash if I open more than 1500 tabs on a vastly more powerful computer doing the exact same thing, middle mouse clicking Google images when collecting reference for a project. Is it because the websites are so much more demanding or did Firefox get worse?!

 

[DoPo]

Is it because the websites are so much more demanding or did Firefox get worse?!

A little bit of column A, a little bit of column B.

Websites have definitely grown more complex and demanding over the years. In some cases you can definitely argue it's "convoluted". Previously, you'd be perfectly fine with a simple HTML page but nowadays JavaScript is pretty much universal around the web, so each website will require more computing power.

Firefox did definitely change, too. You could call it "getting worse" or you could argue it was "evolution" and in reality it's again column A and column B. It's not only that websites change - web standards also do. There is more stuff to support than there was 10 years ago - we have an additional major revision of CSS (CSS 3), technically two versions of JavaScript (ES5 and ES6. ES4 wasn't around a decade ago but it didn't the light of day because it got scrapped), as well as one major revision of HTML (HTML 5). Moreover, there is just way more stuff that browsers do, nowadays - including media playback and security. Everything on the web gets to be much more complex and modern browsers need to be able to handle it.

That's not to say that Firefox has only been improving, of course - for example, the browser has been infamous for its memory problems. In all fairness, it HAS been improved quite a lot, but it's still not an issue. There has been other stuff, as well, like changing the browser modding API and the like that would change how it works.

So, all in all, it's changes everywhere.

 

[Adam Jensen_v1legacy]

I'm running Firefox 53 x64 on Windows 10 Pro x64 Creators Update without a single issue. Perhaps some of the addons and extensions are causing problems for you.

 

[gsilver]

Firefox seems fine to me, and it's my primary browser.

Though every browser seems to handle Flash terribly.
Why anyone still uses Flash, I dunno, but it's still used on some streaming video sites that I use.

 

[Saulkar]

Is it because the websites are so much more demanding or did Firefox get worse?!

A little bit of column A, a little bit of column B.

Websites have definitely grown more complex and demanding over the years. In some cases you can definitely argue it's "convoluted". Previously, you'd be perfectly fine with a simple HTML page but nowadays JavaScript is pretty much universal around the web, so each website will require more computing power.

Firefox did definitely change, too. You could call it "getting worse" or you could argue it was "evolution" and in reality it's again column A and column B. It's not only that websites change - web standards also do. There is more stuff to support than there was 10 years ago - we have an additional major revision of CSS (CSS 3), technically two versions of JavaScript (ES5 and ES6. ES4 wasn't around a decade ago but it didn't the light of day because it got scrapped), as well as one major revision of HTML (HTML 5). Moreover, there is just way more stuff that browsers do, nowadays - including media playback and security. Everything on the web gets to be much more complex and modern browsers need to be able to handle it.

That's not to say that Firefox has only been improving, of course - for example, the browser has been infamous for its memory problems. In all fairness, it HAS been improved quite a lot, but it's still not an issue. There has been other stuff, as well, like changing the browser modding API and the like that would change how it works.

So, all in all, it's changes everywhere.

Thank you for the in-depth reply. It makes me wonder though where we will be in another ten years when (insert name) software continues to get more complex as well as the environment it inhabits.

Blinn's Law is real.

 

[IceForce]

Use the Pale Moon browser. It comes in native 64-bit variant, and it uses the old (better) Firefox interface from a few versions back.

 

[gorfias]

I've been running firefox version 28 for years now
Runs the same on windows 10
On newer sites small icon images don't properly load but aside from that smooth sailing
Never freezes but the blue moon crash happens
I blame the constant +100 open tabs
Session manager is a wonderful add-on for that though so no biggie