FireFox- FF has been failing me for the past few months now.

[TheForce]

For the past few months now Firefox has been giving me a number of problems on my main desktop and laptop.
1. Strarted with the 2nd and beyond tabs unable to open with my home page, instead jumping to Yahoo.
2. Next I began to have trouble with a number of favorite web pages unable to display properly.
3. For the past few weeks now, some web pages will take me to a "Net Assistant" search page. While it happens to many web sites, a good example is when I try to open a thread at Satelliteguys and it takes me to this Net Assistant page.

I have been using IE ver 8 and it does not do any of these things with the same URL's.

Firefox used to be my favorite browser but I think I'm due for a change. FF is just getting too annoying, with every update. Too bloated. Too buggy.

What are you all using these days for a trouble free browser on your PC?

BTW- I have no problems with my ipad Safari.

 

[mdram]

im running Firefox and haven't seen any issues

but i also run ie9 at home for some sites, no issues there either

 

[DodgerKing]

No issues here either on any of the 5 different computers I use

 

[Peter Parker]

No issues with firefox 4 either. What version are you suing?

 

[TheForce]

Well, I'm glad I asked because it must be something here then. Maybe I will check it out on my Vista system. Everything else is XP. Wonder if that is the problem.

Is everyone else using windows 7 or Vista?

Firefox is version 3.6.16.



Been using IE ver 8 today and it is also crashing on a few web pages but it only crashes on the one tab while the others remain open and working fine.

 

[mdram]

win7 at home, xp at work

firefox 4.01

 

[Mr Tony]

Using Vista and FF here...no issues

version 3.6.16

 

[TheForce]

Thanks everyone for confirming my FF must have been corrupted. I uninstalled it on both computers and reinstalled and now all the craziness is gone. As far as I'm concerned, case closed.

 

[primestar31]

Thanks everyone for confirming my FF must have been corrupted. I uninstalled it on both computers and reinstalled and now all the craziness is gone. As far as I'm concerned, case closed.

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[TheForce]

Thanks, but already did that early on and all was clean. We're good now