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Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 11:54 am
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.

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:12 pm
by Luke
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.

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:31 pm
by Kieran Huggins
I'm second in the ocean.... I think it has a lot to do with extensions.

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 12:41 pm
by Luke
maybe so...

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:08 pm
by AKA Panama Jack
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. :)

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:11 pm
by AKA Panama Jack
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

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 1:52 pm
by Maugrim_The_Reaper
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...

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 2:33 pm
by matthijs
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 .....

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 4:19 pm
by Chris Corbyn
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:

Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2007 6:26 pm
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/