The most unstable application on my Mac: Firefox

Posted by Giovanni Intini | Filed under Firefox, Mac

Is it just me or Firefox is the most unstable mainstream application available for the Macintosh platform? I have to quit and reload it at least twice a day because it hogs resources until the system isn’t responsive anymore. From now on I will resume using Safari for everything but JavaScript debugging.

Permalink | Comments (7) | Oct 10, 2007

7 Responses to “The most unstable application on my Mac: Firefox”

  1. Daniel Fischer Says:
    October 10th, 2007 at 11:08 am

    Try using BonEcho, http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2007/09/19/firefox-2007—Even though it’s an optimized build I still get hogged down by the application. Can’t live without firebug though :(

  2. Giovanni Intini Says:
    October 10th, 2007 at 11:11 am

    Unfortunately, that’s what I use, and I also can’t live without firebug :(

  3. Daniel Fischer Says:
    October 10th, 2007 at 11:17 am

    It’s unfortunate that the dom inspecter in webkit isn’t as useful. I really wish there was an awesome plug-in for safari that would be better, oh well. I found that disabling firebug actually helps with performance. I only turn it on when I use it. But … that’s most of the day so I guess I’m screwed, lol. Mozilla needs to release an ‘official’ version of Firefox for the Mac.

  4. Giovanni Intini Says:
    October 10th, 2007 at 11:33 am

    +1 to everything you said.

  5. Jay Says:
    January 14th, 2008 at 5:55 pm

    It’s ashame that it’s come to this. Firefox used to be such a stable application—now with all these updates, somehow they’ve created a POS (piece of $hit). I have to force quit this sucker dozens of times. I have no additional extensions. It’s become a craptastic browser.

  6. Felipe Says:
    April 11th, 2008 at 4:41 pm

    this happens to me too.

  7. Gregor Says:
    September 6th, 2008 at 3:15 am

    New mac user. Everything very stable, but Firefox. Very sad.

    Gregor