Firefox.

[toemag]

I have given the firefox and thunderbird the boot, they were good, in the last month alone the browser packed up more times than I can remember, not doing anything naughty either, surfin AR15 here and a few other site's, Mike's being one of them, then bam, browser stalls, tells me its closing down, then off it is, Opera is what I'm using till I find an alternative to Firefox, or they get themselves sorted out.

Be good and take care wherever you maybe.

Tony

[gunnut]

What version of FF were you using? FF v.2 has a memory leak problem. FF v.3 supposedly had this problem fixed. You might want to give that a try. It might still be in beta though.

[bolo121]

Hi from a devoted Opera fan. Opera is smaller faster and less resource consuming compared to firefox. Besides it doesnt have that pesky memory leak.
I would say if you are thinking of giving firefox another try, wait until version 3 comes out. As gunnut said its fixed the hole.
In my experience the main thing that messes up firefox is too many addons and one or the other of them going bad.

[ameer]

What version of Firefox did you have?

I don't have any problems with FF, I made the switch from IE a few years ago and never looked back. It has all these neat add-ons and RSS is great.

[toemag]

That's what did me, did the clean install and ditched most of them add ons and all seems to be fine.

The bookmark manger on Opera is somewhat difficult, if you know what I mean.

Tony

[gunnut]

I use Opera on my Nintendo DS.

Trying to get it to run Mac OS.

[toemag]

I use Opera on my Nintendo DS.

Do you think that you could explain how that work's, BTW, I can't get things to run on my PSP, so if it requires rocket scientist IQ., I can't help, room temperature maybe.

That reminds me, I once saw a sign, IQ of the employees here is room Temperature if it rises sell, they were some kind of stock broker's or Bankers.


Tony

[dave lukins]

Tony, I've been having problems with IE6. I've loaded IE7 and for the time being, it has been fine...give it a try you've got nothing to loose

[gunnut]

Do you think that you could explain how that work's, BTW, I can't get things to run on my PSP, so if it requires rocket scientist IQ., I can't help, room temperature maybe.

That reminds me, I once saw a sign, IQ of the employees here is room Temperature if it rises sell, they were some kind of stock broker's or Bankers.


Tony

Actually it's sold as a software package for the DS. The software is on a game card and there's an associated RAM buffer cartridge that goes into the GBA slot.

I don't know much about the PSP since I don't have one. I thought it came with a browser already built in.

[texasjohn]

Tony, I've been having problems with IE6. I've loaded IE7 and for the time being, it has been fine...give it a try you've got nothing to loose

Complete agreement here. All this "browser fuss" is something I have seen over and over again - remember the foolishness over Mosaic, Netscape etc.?

IE is optimized for Windows, and if that's what you are running - use it!!

OK, so I am an IT professional and to do a sanity check here is what I did.
I updated my OS ( windows update), ran spybot, made sure it came back clean, and installed Firefox, and used it exclusively for 2 weeks. Never launched IE.

Ran spybot again - 23 exploits!!

Where is the "percieved", "imagined" gain?

btw, IE does not have a memory leak. I hope the new version of Firefox fixes their's!!!:))

[bolo121]

That's what did me, did the clean install and ditched most of them add ons and all seems to be fine.

The bookmark manger on Opera is somewhat difficult, if you know what I mean.

Tony

Um dont really know what you meant there. I never had much of a problem with opera bookmarks

As to spyware texas, yes firefox's popularity has caused spyware to slowly mutate to take it into account. Never had any opera related problems though, and ive been using it since ver 3.
I must admit though back in the day i had only a 486dx and 16mb ram, so the thought of a browser that fit in a 1.44 floppy was just too much to resist.:))