Firefox on the road downhill?

[JohanSWE]

Ever since upgrading from FF2 surfing the web has become a nightmare.
I even started to use IE again, something i usually just do for dev testing.
But FF3.5.2 is just unusable, its so slow, and choppy, a fresh install with just one tab open, hogs a staggering 115mb ram come on!

Pages takes ages to load even the FF/ google start page.
links can't be clicked until every element of the page is loaded.
Freezes a lot!

I hate to have to switch to chrome or opera, but seems like those are the only options left since i really don't want to use IE/Safari.

Has anyone else had this experience, i know my partner here in the office has the exact same issues.

[jgl]

I've been happy with 3.5.2- stable, fast. But your comment about memory usage caused me to look at my task manager. 215MB, currently running 5 tabs with nothing overly complex in any of them. That's pretty bad.

[pin]

same with me, have about 3/4 tabs open (meebo, gmail, google reader) and am getting about 215mb memory usage.

[BenderBends]

how is safari on windows?

i cant imagine someone preferring IE...even over a buggy FF or Safari IE ends up in the rear.

[dropdedfwed]

my limited exp with safari on PC is pretty positive. snappy.

however some sites won't work well with it. It's probably my settings some of the times, but it's safari other times...

i find i use safari a lot more now, until i want to do netbanking or something then i go back to firefox, mostly cos i know it works

but yes, i find my nettop just sits there doing JS for a while when using firefox recently...

[JohanSWE]

Well Safari on Win is ok, but as Drop said it renders some pages very poorly.
And i really can't stand their chrome either, it would have been better to just stick with a win uniform chrome instead.
Opera has the same flaws and so does chrome since it just like safari is based on webkit.

Anyways gonna downgrade back to FF2.0 if i can find it somewhere.

[hk.com]

Normally when I see Firefox not behaving it is a symptom of a serious problem and not the cause.

Two PC's using the same internet connection have the same problem. I would stop looking at the browser and look at your network, router, connection.

[JohanSWE]

Well that could have been the reason but its not, since all other browsers loads all pages as expected.
And both PC's experienced the same issues after upgrading to FF 3.5.2

[PDLM]

I've been perfectly happy with FF3.5.2. Seems very stable. Yes, with about a dozen tabs open currently it's holding 150MB, but I have 3GB so that doesn't bother me in the slightest. 50MB of that seems to been with the various extensions I have loaded - it goes down to 107MB with them all disabled.

[TS888]

I've been using Firefox for a few years, always update to the latest release. Never had any performance issues that were related to FF, only to OS or net connection. I've never even looked at FF ram use, but like PDLM, with 3gb I don't care, since 99% of my computer use is either email client or web browsing. I'll never go back to IE (on my personal system, my company is still running... IE 6.0!?!?!). I've tried Safari, wasn't knocked out, and I've been playing with SeaMonkey, but it's not up to the FF standard yet. My phone has Opera, I don't love it. Haven't tried Chrome yet.