I did not know but...firefox truly sucks.

[babylonsister]

I installed it on my 'new' laptop and boy, that was a mistake. I liked it 12 years ago, but now it takes forever to load when it does and I am not enjoying this. Can anyone help me find a similar browser that's easy to work with, maybe one I can use as a default without having to set everything up again?

And my next question is what do you do with all your pix? I don't use my phone for anything like FB so am finding it impossible to paste photos from phone to laptop. Is this where clouds come in?

I missed 10+ years of technology, and it shows! Thank you for any help!

[Ocelot II]

1. My photos are stored in Photos for Mac,

and when I take a picture with my phone it's also sent to the same app on my laptop and my iPad via the cloud. I don't have to do anything. A simple way to get your phone pics to your laptop is just to email them to yourself from your phone.

[BootinUp]

2. I've settled on Edge

but Chrome is as good or better. You must be avoiding those for what, privacy concern?

[babylonsister]

12. I think I'm avoiding edge b/c it seems

to want to shove it down my throat; I hate that they do that; I'd rather make my own choice. Dumb but true.

[ItsjustMe]

3. Firefox has always sucked

[canetoad]

4. There's a firefox spin-off

Called Waterfox; I've been using it for a year or so. Bonus - you can use Firefox add-ons such as Ad blockers etc.

[babylonsister]

11. Okey doke, given our tech history, I trust

you know what you're doing. I will try to install that and see what happens, thanks!

[Scrivener7]

5. Oooohhh. I have been noticing my laptop is slowing but thought it was because it's old.

Maybe it's the firefox....

[msongs]

6. never had a problem with firefox nt

[keithbvadu2]

7. Firefox often balks for 5 or 10 minutes before browsing ok.

[babylonsister]

10. Balks is the word; seems like it can't

get it's shit together. Messages telling me it's already running, etc. Driving me nuts!

[bucolic_frolic]

8. FF is slow and the updates too frequent

I experimented with Opera, but ditched that too.

[TrogL]

9. I switched to Chrome

Works fine except for Microsoft specific sites like office.com

[Earth-shine]

13. I use Firefox pretty much exclusively. I do not have your problems.

[patphil]

14. Neither do I. I think it works fine. No delays, no startup problems.

Just a note, I still use Windows 7 on my desktop.

[2naSalit]

18. Never had a problem with FF.

I never liked other browsers this one works great on this laptop I bought about a year ago. I have used FF as mt browser for three laptops, about fifteen years.

[krispos42]

19. Me to, with the PC version

The mobile version is okay on a phone but I don't enjoy it too much on my tablet/laptop ASUS. Chrome works better on that, but all my shortcuts are in Firefox.

The P.C. version works fine for me, and I'm still using Windows7 on my main work computer and my home PC.

[hlthe2b]

15. Yeah. It has become a bloated mess with lots of conflicts. It is damned irritating when

websites I logged into and used before are seemingly blocked or images don't show (despite all kinds of time-consuming troubleshooting) yet continue to work fine on MS Edge or chrome.

I've used firefox for many many years, but I am very disgusted with it.

[LuvLoogie]

16. I like Chrome...

The integrated Google Apps are really good. From GMail, Meet, Contacts, Calendar. The templates available for the apps which are pretty compatible with the Microsoft Office corollaries. The main drawback to Chrome is the RAM it uses up. If you are running Windows 10, you'd probably want at least 8GBs of RAM to do anything useful. 4GBs won't cut it if you have a lot of browser windows/tabs open.

The profile syncing is much better and easier with Chrome as well.

[Wicked Blue]

17. Sorry to hear that you're having problems with FF*

Can you use a lightning cable to transfer photos from phone to computer? That's what I do


As for me, I love Firefox and Thunderbird.

[RKP5637]

20. I haven't had any problems with Firefox. I use it on two large systems, a laptop and 2 smartphones.

Mozilla has made significant dedication to Firefox since bringing it back.

[LPBBEAR]

21. No Firefox Does Not Suck

Try this with any of your alternatives.

Open 8 or 9 browser windows.

Now open up 400 tabs across those Windows

Do any of your wowzer alternative web browsers work at all.

I do this with Firefox in Linux as a routine.

Firefox does NOT suck.