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Posted: **Tue May 03, 2011 6:31 am**

Has anyone tried Firefox 4.0.1 yet? It claims to be much faster than previous version, but I disagree.

I downloaded it yesterday, and wished I hadn`t bothered. It is much slower than previous versions, and in my opinion, is far inferior.

I`m back to v 3.6.17, and am happy again. :D

Posted: **Tue May 03, 2011 10:20 am**

Tried it a couple of days after it came out. I found it too slow as well and uninstalled it. Found out later that there's an option hidden deep down which causes the slowness. Didn't bother re-installing to find out though!

Posted: **Tue May 03, 2011 11:16 am**

UBT - Mikee wrote:Tried it a couple of days after it came out. I found it too slow as well and uninstalled it. Found out later that there's an option hidden deep down which causes the slowness. Didn't bother re-installing to find out though!

Whatever the "option" is, they can keep it. I`m normally a FF fan, but I plan to stick to the tried and tested version like you Mikee.

Posted: **Tue May 03, 2011 9:23 pm**

Running the new version without any probs. Must be lucky I guess....

Posted: **Tue May 03, 2011 9:41 pm**

I had been a big fan of FF for a number of years.
But over the past months i had noticed a big slowing down of FF
SO i changed to MAXTHON 3
And o boy does it show FF up..
Very fast and i am atm a very happy bunny...
Anyone else using or tried Maxthon3 ?

b.

Posted: **Tue May 03, 2011 11:01 pm**

UBT - The Prof.... wrote:Running the new version without any probs. Must be lucky I guess....

Could be that you've got the update to 4.0.1

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/i ... 34784.html

Still sticking to 3.6.17 though!

Posted: **Wed May 04, 2011 12:34 am**

I'm running FF v4 on both the desktop and the laptop with no problems. But I'm definitely going to try Maxthon 3

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2011 7:30 am**

Andreu609 post, one up from this one is Spam - exterminate

He did have one effect tho .... I've been meaning to checkout Firefox V5, its not bad at all

Regards
Zy

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2011 8:00 am**

Thanks Zy. Post deleted.

Posted: **Tue Jun 28, 2011 11:29 am**

melter65 wrote:I'm running FF v4 on both the desktop and the laptop with no problems. But I'm definitely going to try Maxthon 3

Tried Maxthon 3. I didn`t find it any faster than FF, and I didn`t like Maxthon 3. Now uninstalled.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2011 9:18 am**

UBT - Rick Horn wrote:
melter65 wrote:I'm running FF v4 on both the desktop and the laptop with no problems. But I'm definitely going to try Maxthon 3
Tried Maxthon 3. I didn`t find it any faster than FF, and I didn`t like Maxthon 3. Now uninstalled.

Now running Chrome. Find its faster than anything else I've tried and ultra reliable.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2011 12:04 pm**

UBT - The Prof.... wrote:
UBT - Rick Horn wrote:
melter65 wrote:I'm running FF v4 on both the desktop and the laptop with no problems. But I'm definitely going to try Maxthon 3
Tried Maxthon 3. I didn`t find it any faster than FF, and I didn`t like Maxthon 3. Now uninstalled.
Now running Chrome. Find its faster than anything else I've tried and ultra reliable.

Call me Mr. Picky if you like, but I don`t much care for Chrome either.
I agree with Mikee, it`s FF v 3.6.17 for me too.

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2011 12:23 pm**

Nobody's mentioned Opera, so I'll throw this in. I've got Firefox, IE and Opera on 3 different machines. I find Opera to be the most reliable, although it has a problem running a couple of scripts on 1 website I have to use for business purposes (but at least it 'owns up' instead of hanging or, as Firefox does, crashing). Firefox I find to be the fastest, but crashes if it's overworked, whilst IE remains steady, rarely crashes, allows me to get everything done - but is often too slow!

Posted: **Wed Jun 29, 2011 1:07 pm**

Have you tried FF V5 ?

Its not bad, I still have to confess I'm an ......... eeek ....... IE user :shock: *looks furtively for an escape route* ....

.... but I kept FF V5 on the machine as a second use browser.

Regards
Zy