What would be the reason for firefox always hanging?

[rnp614]

But other programs still running fine? On my OSX partition only 4 free gigs left. Could this be the problem? I miss firefox, but alas I'm stuck using chrome.

 

[guitargoddsjm]

But other programs still running fine? On my OSX partition only 4 free gigs left. Could this be the problem? I miss firefox, but alas I'm stuck using chrome.

First of all, a general rule of thumb is to always maintain 10% of your HDD capacity as free space. This will help with general computing.

Secondly, Firefox has issues. There are memory leaks galore, and it's losing steam against more modern browsers like Safari and Chrome. I was like you and stubbornly kept using Firefox because it had extensions and it was familiar. Now that Chrome & Safari have extensions too, there is even less reason to keep using Firefox. I couldn't handle Firefox constantly hanging (especially when loading pages with Flash) and its memory leaks, so I switched to Chrome (although I do have some problems with it).

One nice feature w/ Chrome is the ability to sync your browser with your Google/Gmail account (i.e., bookmarks, preferences, extensions, etc).

 

[cleric]

Yea I switched to chrome, firefox performance is getting pretty terrible.

 

[Jaro65]

Yea I switched to chrome, firefox performance is getting pretty terrible.

Same here. I just got really tired of restarting the Firefox. No such issues with Chrome.

 

[halledise]

just stick with Safari and you can't go wrong

 

[Hastings101]

Have you uninstalled and reinstalled it? Removed addons? Those things might help you.

I've noticed every browser on the mac sort of needs some work, seems they all lack in one department or another - Java and Flash seem to be the most common. Safari gives me the least problems out of all the browsers I've tried so I stick with it.