"I refuse to use FireFox!" he cried

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Ollie Saunders
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Post by Ollie Saunders »

I never find FireFox grinding to a halt personally. Once open I sometimes open 20 or 30 tabs at a time and it copes absolutely fine.
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I have to shut firefox down and restart it at least once a day. Don't get me wrong, I love it... I couldn't work without it... it just needs a little love around noon every day because it has memory issues.
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I'm second in the ocean.... I think it has a lot to do with extensions.
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maybe so...
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ole wrote:I never find FireFox grinding to a halt personally. Once open I sometimes open 20 or 30 tabs at a time and it copes absolutely fine.
Same thing with Opera for me. Heck, I have had around 100 tabs open without any speed or memory problems. :) When I come here I tend to open all of the new messages at the same time before I read anything. :)
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Kieran Huggins wrote:I'm second in the ocean.... I think it has a lot to do with extensions.
That's one of the reasons I don't use FF. With Opera I just don't need all of that extra user created fluff. I like the browser to be clean and fast. The so called developer extentions are more readily availible through other channels. I don't like to Microsoft-Up my browser. :D
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Talking about IE, IE7 is really a usability nightmare. What were these designers thinking when then moved the home,refresh and stop buttons, which have been on the top left side forever (and still are in all other browsers)? "Guys, I have a good idea, let's confuse our users a bit more, let's move these buttons!"
When everyone is using IE7, how will they react after trying FF/Other and finding the buttons are in the *wrong* place? ;) Subtle UI differences are a pretty good way of discouraging a switchover. Can't think of any other good reason for breaking a years old convention... I do find it an annoyance even when doing a spot of testing - I don't use IE7 enough to automatically stop sliding that mouse pointer left...
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Maugrim_The_Reaper wrote: When everyone is using IE7, how will they react after trying FF/Other and finding the buttons are in the *wrong* place? ;) Subtle UI differences are a pretty good way of discouraging a switchover. Can't think of any other good reason for breaking a years old convention... I do find it an annoyance even when doing a spot of testing - I don't use IE7 enough to automatically stop sliding that mouse pointer left...
Hmmm.... so it's a secret strategy of Microsoft. How clever and wicked .....
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Maugrim_The_Reaper wrote:
Talking about IE, IE7 is really a usability nightmare. What were these designers thinking when then moved the home,refresh and stop buttons, which have been on the top left side forever (and still are in all other browsers)? "Guys, I have a good idea, let's confuse our users a bit more, let's move these buttons!"
When everyone is using IE7, how will they react after trying FF/Other and finding the buttons are in the *wrong* place? ;) Subtle UI differences are a pretty good way of discouraging a switchover. Can't think of any other good reason for breaking a years old convention... I do find it an annoyance even when doing a spot of testing - I don't use IE7 enough to automatically stop sliding that mouse pointer left...
That's why I imagine newer versions of FF will have a setting to allow you to change the position of the buttons at your choice :idea:
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Post by Kieran Huggins »

I'm sure there's already an IE7 theme out there

edit: ok - I broke down and searched: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/4129/
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