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I like Firefox, personally. I use it at work. It usually doesn't freeze up or close itself due to an error the way Internet Explorer sometimes does.
1 posted on 06/12/2008 6:02:14 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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To: ShadowAce

Tech ping!


2 posted on 06/12/2008 6:03:09 PM PDT by rabscuttle385
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I like the “Restore Last Session” feature.


3 posted on 06/12/2008 6:05:11 PM PDT by uptoolate (The Republican fear of Liberalism is why we are in this predicament)
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I use Firefox almost exclusively, but the one complaint I have about it is the propensity toward “memory leaks”. It ends up committing way too much RAM, which I have tried to address (unsuccessfully to date) by creating new integer and Boolean values.


5 posted on 06/12/2008 6:07:57 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Peace is Not The Question.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

the only reason i use IE 7 is for that little magnifier button on the lower left corner, It comes in handy.
I wonder if this new version will have that.


6 posted on 06/12/2008 6:09:41 PM PDT by mowowie
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Another Firefox fan, especially with the extensions that make it easy to use FR. But it absolutely gags on many TV web sites with current video or live streaming radio. I gave up trying to nurse it and just use an add-on called IE View to go directly to IE-6 for viewing/listening.


8 posted on 06/12/2008 6:18:25 PM PDT by CedarDave (Obama dissing God and country: campaign won't use "religion as a wedge and patriotism as a bludgeon")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I like Firefox, personally. I use it at work.

Same here.

The only problem I have on my Win2k3 box at work is that after an hour or so, the memory usage slowly balloons from the usual ~30Mb to over 150Mb. It really slogs the machine....which doesn't have as much RAM as it should.

11 posted on 06/12/2008 6:21:23 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (The secret of Life is letting go. The secret of Love is letting it show.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I used to use Firefox, but I started using Safari in addition to Explorer instead. A lot of pages look better on Safari than Firefox.


12 posted on 06/12/2008 6:24:45 PM PDT by Biblebelter
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

I’m running Opera (9.5 today) Firefox, Safari and IE, all have advantages when you get a PC with some RAM!
All are cool!


13 posted on 06/12/2008 6:28:06 PM PDT by Shady (The Fairness Doctrine is ANYTHING but fair!!!!)
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...an updated password manager that doesn't disrupt the log-in process.

That's been the one that's annoyed me most often.

14 posted on 06/12/2008 6:29:23 PM PDT by seowulf
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I hope they increase its security more, I got my first malware ever the other week on Vista using Firefox, IE blocked that site completely. As far as freeze ups etc you are right Firefox doesn’t crash as often but it most certainly does lock up, certain video players do muck it up. Frankly IE and Firefox both have their positives IMO, so I will download both when they come available.


16 posted on 06/12/2008 6:33:13 PM PDT by aft_lizard (One animal actually its eats its own brains to conserve energy, we call them liberals.)
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Firefox-3 Release Notes:
http://en-us.www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0rc3/releasenotes/
17 posted on 06/12/2008 6:37:53 PM PDT by ETL
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I wonder if it will have a zoom feature similar to IE7?


19 posted on 06/12/2008 6:40:49 PM PDT by ETL
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Set a Guinness World Record

Mozille/Firefox wants to break all download records with this release.

They want it to be Firefox Download Day (June 17).

http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord


20 posted on 06/12/2008 6:41:08 PM PDT by TomGuy
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One thing I’ve never been able to figure out is how they make money off this.


22 posted on 06/12/2008 6:44:40 PM PDT by babyfreep
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As long as they fix the damn memory leaks. The only problem I ever have with Firefox is when a long session ends up using 400 MB of my memory even with only one tab open.


24 posted on 06/12/2008 6:54:27 PM PDT by SlapHappyPappy
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I hope the new version will run better on my machine. Firefox crashes several times a day and all of the fixes mentioned on Mozilla’s site help.


26 posted on 06/12/2008 7:02:47 PM PDT by armymarinemom (My sons freed Iraqi and Afghan Honor Roll students.)
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Foxmarks Bookmark Sync ROCKS!
31 posted on 06/12/2008 7:18:38 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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37 posted on 06/12/2008 7:41:25 PM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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And if it does close, it “restores session” later.


38 posted on 06/12/2008 7:47:18 PM PDT by Joya (Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior, have mercy on me, a sinner!)
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Good news! Although I’ve adopted my Mac’s Mail over Thunderbird, I still haven’t been able to get into using Safar, still preferring Firefox. This will probably seal Safari’s fate for me unless Apple pulls another surprise.


39 posted on 06/12/2008 7:47:22 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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