[RESOLVED] Fed up with Firefox

[Sal_gal]

Okay, I give up on Firefox (and Cyberfox). Please don't try and talk me into using it.
I am using Opera and it's a much smoother better stable browser.
is there another browser that IS SIMILAR TO OPERA AND USES THE SAME CODING?
thanks.

[photolady]

If you're satisfied with Opera, why do you want/need anything else? I've had Opera running on my computers for 13 years.

[Midknyte]

I think you have other system issues that are affecting FF, but we've been down that road several times.

Opera is based on Chrome now.

On 28 May 2013, a beta release of Opera 15 was made available, the first version based on the Chromium project

[Sal_gal]

If Opera is based on Chrome, how come it operates BETTER than Chrome?

[photolady]

I am still using 12.7 of Opera. And today I had Opera check for updates and it said I have the latest Opera.

[Midknyte]

The core of Opera 15+ is Webkit like Chrome, but Google adds a lot of bloat. I'm sure there have been a ton of changes between Opera 15 and 29 (current).

[Midknyte]

@photolady
I'm guessing Opera 12 doesn't detect updates since it is based on the Presto engine, not WebKit. Opera may have discontinued Presto updates altogether.

[photolady]

I don't let Opera update on it's own. But a few weeks ago I was having a problem with it seeing a certain photo hosting site's photos, so I did a "check for updates" but it still didn't update to 15.

I don't let FireFox update automatically either. And I never use IE.

[HAN]

The old Opera 12.x series is dead. 12.17 is the last. I read somewhere that Opera laid off over 50 Presto developers once the switch to Chromium's/WebKit was running. It wasn't my favorite but I was glad it was around. Technologically, it kept things moving forward. Remember how long IE was stale!! May it RIP!

[photolady]

That's what I'm running Han, 12.17. As long as it keeps working fine for me, I see no reason upgrade. I run Malwarebytes, the paid version and MSE updated. I have no problems, and my computer is clean.

[Sal_gal]

Here's the issue. Adobe Flash player and plug-ins. Adobe doesn't like FF and vice versa. I tried switching to Cyberfox and still got the same issues: freezing, crashing, "reload pages", etc. etc.

I switched to Chrome, wanted to watch Amazon Prime Instant Video and got a message "install Adobe Flash". Did that, restarted the computer, and Chrome still gives me the message when I try to run the video online.

I have Opera 29
[Browser identification

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/42.0.2311.152 Safari/537.36 OPR/29.0.1795.60 ]

I just want a browser that works besides Opera. I don't know about all these versions and updates. I just want a browser besides IE (which attracts viruses and malware) that will work. I could use Safari, but THAT also has its issues.

I wish Adobe would die.

I'm reading online reviews. Here are some browsers I never heard of. Anybody use them with success? (I'm using Windows 7 64 bit Home edition)

Maxthon
Avant
Superbird
Midori
SeaMonkey

[Train]

Flash is going way and instead I use the HTML5 add on in FF or its various off spring like Iceweasle.

[Sal_gal]

I downloaded Seamonkey and went to play the online video and it seems to work.
I don't know about all these various ADOBE flash imitators, but ADOBE flash needs to die.

[Train]

It is going away.
https://www.google.com/#q=adobe+flash+player+going+away

The latest
http://www.howtogeek.com/179213/why-...eplacing-them/

You tube switched to html5
http://thenextweb.com/google/2015/01...pport-devices/
More on that line
https://www.google.com/#q=youtube+switched+to+html5

[Sal_gal]

That's good news! So when I download the latest versions of XXXBrowser then it should have HTML5 already installed? Or do I have to install it separately?

Well NOW -- using Chrome, and I can't see any of the images online. Not one. What happened? Oh Geez, sick of these browsers.