Firefox has been driving me crazy for the last year or two. It’s a great browser. It feels right. It’s add-ons are its killer feature. No other browser has the right set of add-ons and so I’ve never switched. But Firefox has been suffering for a long time and I had no idea what it…
Tag: mozilla
Fix for Firefox Freezing
Firefox has long had an issue with freezing/hitching. Here’s the fix: Go to about:config, search for browser.sessionstore.interval and set it higher than its default (10000). The units are milliseconds (divide by 1000 to get seconds). I prefer to set it to 60000 or greater.
Firefox or Thunderbird unstable? Try starting a new profile.
I use Thunderbird and Firefox at work on CentOS 5 w/KDE 3.5. I’m a long time user and gradually I’ve come have a certain distaste for the instability I’ve been experiencing, progressively more and more, over the past few years. I’ve tried many times to find out what the instability is on google. One day as I was searching, I apparently found my answer: Start a new profile.
Firefox is winning me back!
I wrote earlier about how Chrome was winning me over. Well, after a brief fling, I’m back to Firefox and I now find it not so bad.