Mozilla Firefox Not Responding

[smurfchops]

I have a Windows 7 laptop which is now quite a few years old. It is very slow opening, obviously I have been spoilt by my iPad. Anyway I use Mozilla for the internet and it just keeps Not Responding and driving me crazy. Is there a better search engine I could use please that is more reliable? Thanks all.

[retrocop]

google chrome perhaps ?

[smurfchops]

Just reading through old threads and someone recommends waterfox. Any good? And if I use another search engine, is it best to delete Mozilla or doesnt it make any difference?

[bibblebub]

If you have a 64bit laptop then PaleMoon is a good one (it's the 64bit version of Firefox that I use); I used to use Waterfox which was good but it has become quite buggy and the individual responsible for it seems to take ages to get around to fixing it, so probably best avoided at present.

In terms of terminology, Mozilla Firefox is an internet browser (as are Internet Explorer and Google Chrome), whereas a search engine is used from within an internet browser to find webpages that contain the information that you are seeking. You can have as many different internet browsers installed on your computer as you want, they are separate programs which don't interact directly with each other, just as you can run, for example, a word processor and be watching a video at the same time.

[smurfchops]

bibble I am not technical at all as you can tell ! Thanks for all your help. Any other answers gratefully appreciated !

[tommy39]

i was having the same prob not long ago . if you can ,do a memory test. you may find it is faulty ram. changed mine and had no prob since

[smurfchops]

How do I do that tommy?