I hate FF
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- Christopher
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No crashes here on vista.
Insane memory usage, of course.
Insane memory usage, of course.
Set Search Time - A google chrome extension. When you search only results from the past year (or set time period) are displayed. Helps tremendously when using new technologies to avoid outdated results.
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For anyone who's as puzzled as I was about firefox's insane and unexplainable memory consumption, I came across this article a few days ago that tries explaining some of it: http://blog.pavlov.net/2007/11/10/memory-fragmentation/
I've used opera for a few hours about 10 times, each time discovering something about ff that I couldn't live without. Ahh well... crossing my fingers for FF3... I'll let you know how it goes
update: just downloaded ff3, and it's amazing.... render times are faster than opera, and the interface seems to respond quite a bit faster. Still a memory hog, but glancing at my system monitor, I think I actually witnessed it return memory to the heap!... I must have been seeing things...
I've used opera for a few hours about 10 times, each time discovering something about ff that I couldn't live without. Ahh well... crossing my fingers for FF3... I'll let you know how it goes
update: just downloaded ff3, and it's amazing.... render times are faster than opera, and the interface seems to respond quite a bit faster. Still a memory hog, but glancing at my system monitor, I think I actually witnessed it return memory to the heap!... I must have been seeing things...
- RobertGonzalez
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FF has big problems with Flash Player, on my configuration it crashes when I look at many pages with flash ads (I don' t use AdBlock I had some very ugly moments with it).
To stop the memory consumption disable Firebug, WebDev, the rest of web development extensions, some other extensions older versions of Stumble Upon and edit certain fields in about:config.
I agree with you on Opera 9. I want some good or at least useful extensions from it like Firebug, JSView.
To stop the memory consumption disable Firebug, WebDev, the rest of web development extensions, some other extensions older versions of Stumble Upon and edit certain fields in about:config.
I agree with you on Opera 9. I want some good or at least useful extensions from it like Firebug, JSView.
- Maugrim_The_Reaper
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On my configuration, the flash player has never crashed...
. I suspect that's just my flash version though - there's supposed to be a few really unstable versions you'd want to avoid.
I honestly think most FF crashes are down to a handful of reasons - and 95% of them are extensions. The rest might be down to real FF bugs in some circumstances - there's no denying it does seem to crash a lot for some people without a concrete explanation.
Would love to try out FF3 beta1 but I need access to my webmail and apparently it can't use the Ajax heavy clients (I assume Gmail is simple enough to work).
I honestly think most FF crashes are down to a handful of reasons - and 95% of them are extensions. The rest might be down to real FF bugs in some circumstances - there's no denying it does seem to crash a lot for some people without a concrete explanation.
Would love to try out FF3 beta1 but I need access to my webmail and apparently it can't use the Ajax heavy clients (I assume Gmail is simple enough to work).
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Yahoo and MS Live aren't working, but you can still use Yahoo's html version... they did say that gmail is working. I just glanced over at the mem usage again and it looks like they finally sealed up the leaks -- only running about 10mb over what it started with after browsing for about 3 hours.
Today is a beautiful day.
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Ha, this is cool...
<a ping="..."> New in Firefox 3
If present, this attribute should be a space-separated list of URIs that wish to be notified when the user follows the hyperlink. Firefox sends a POST request to each HTTP URI in the list. The ping attribute's functionality can be disabled by setting the browser.send_pings preference to false.
- RobertGonzalez
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LOL thanks! It's Brian Pinkterton with earrings, red eyes, a missing tooth and lipstick. 