login123 0 Posted August 3, 2015 Andavari posted here about Firefox 39.0. http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?showtopic=34708&page=28#entry264150 I upgraded to 39.0 also. This is a fairly fast desktop, all other applications work quite fast. It is win xp, AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ dual core processor, 4 gb RAM, actually uses 3.3 gb. Browser slowed to a crawl, showed huge resource usage. IE8 is faster! Seems Firefox is getting slower, so I went looking for faster browsers. Found 3 that function well and fast here: K-meleon, Maxthon, SeaMonkey. Midori works OK but not as well. Maxthon and Seamonkey have portable versions, could not find one for K-meleon. EDIT: Found the portable version of K-Meleon, its on the same sourceforge page as the regular version. Are any of these four known to be unsecure or bug ridden or anything like that? Thanks Sadly, Opera 12.17 always freezes after a short while, and Palemoon locks up and requires a hard restart. Have not tried the newest Opera or the newest Vivaldi. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hazelnut 2 Posted August 4, 2015 I use SeaMonkey on a Win 7 machine. I like it and have no issues with it so far. (never used Firefox as a browser, none of my machines like it ) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andavari 1 Posted August 4, 2015 For me it is significantly faster than the previous Firefox Portable v28.0 I was holding onto forever. One of the main reasons I even updated was for faster speed. Perhaps it's your Firefox profile (my old profile worked fine), or add-ons. Usually it's the profile which has to start anew to remedy any speed issues in Firefox. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
login123 0 Posted August 4, 2015 OK, Andavari. Thanks. I had been pretty much updating as I went along, and noticing that FF seemed to be slowing. I use the portable versions, sandboxed. That may also slow it down a bit. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andavari 1 Posted August 4, 2015 (edited) One thing I just remembered was that old Firefox Portable v28.0 was a clean "install", and I upgraded over it to Firefox Portable v39.0, so only one update and one profile change I've had since v28.0 - which could've been why I didn't have any slowness issue. Edited August 4, 2015 by Andavari typos Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bawldiggle 0 Posted August 30, 2015 I have been using Palemoon for about 3 years, no lock ups ... but I agree with you about Firefox ... it has got slower and so many features are not finished. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trium 0 Posted September 1, 2015 i hope, mozilla "featured" not broke itself with the features... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
