Posted on 12/29/2008 8:48:24 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
I went to download the beta, but didn’t see a version for my Mac.
Without that, Microsoft and Aieeee8 are losing the fastest growing personal computer segment. ;-)
Besides - Firefox, Safari, Chrome and OmniWeb are all better browsers. lol!
Opera and Chrome are significantly faster than Firefox or Internet Explorer.
I did seem to have a problem with Firefox 3.0.4 and radio links, but as soon as I upgraded, the problem went away.
I love it - had to install the DoD Applications add-on to be able to access military webmail and websites, but since then, it’s worked like a charm. Unfortunately, I can’t convince the computer folks at my organization of attachment to install it.
Colonel, USAFR
I also have problems since a recent update of Firefox.
I get an error message every time I open it and bookmarks will work properly (they did not self-import and now I cannot organize or edit them).
I agree, there is little help on the forums, too.
I went through about a month of Firefox and Sea Monkey crashes before I discovered it was a RAM problem. As soon as I replaced the RAM, the problem was over. That was a couple of years back, so I don’t know if the problem is still relevant to today’s browsers. You might want to look into it.
Thanks for the tips. It seemed to crash most often whenever I tried to download something. Whether it was .exe, .doc, .whatever - didn’t matter. Triggered a crash.
I only have 512MB of RAM. Firefox wants about a fifth of it.
Completely understandable - your “organization” not willing to use something that works well, too well.
I have NO idea what you’re talking about. 80’s retro? ;-)
I just know my computer hasn’t crashed in over a year with constant use.
But with Norton, I was in a tizzy every other couple of months.
I have had to uninstall and reinstall WINDOWS many times....
soooooo, to me it’s a pleasure to use this Vista laptop protected by AVAST now.
But, I have the idea my problem was Norton, not Windows.
Reason being, I use Windows on this laptop and have had no problem.
Now to me, it was either the anti virus program or Windows giving me aggravation. ;-)
I personally think it was the Norton program. So, I’m happy with the program, AVAST.
I have seen Avira, but know nothing about it. And you’re the first person that’s mentioned it to me. ;-)
mine crashs daily but comes right back
Probably a helluva lot more than folks learning how to use the keyboard for commands rather than searching menus for buttons to click. Highlight your text to be formatted. Ctrl + B for bold. Ctrl + I to italicize highlighted text. Ctrl + U to underline. I'm in the IT industry and you wouldn't believe the folks who actually use the mouse to cut and paste text (rather than use Ctrl + X, C, V).
What do you mean by "faster"? What exactly is faster in Opera than in FF? For instance cached page retrieval is faster in FF than IE. Page rendering is faster in FF than IE. I know this by doing extensive load testing on my code from a localhost environment.
Do you have the "GreaseMonkey" add-on installed? There have been significant virus problems with this FF extra. FYI
Get some more RAM, it's cheap. Crucial has reasonable prices.
There is a virus (a nasty one) associated with GreaseMonkey. Un-install immediately.
Funny how Google launched into all these initiatives and now had to layoff people. And the Google Phone @ T Mobile is such a stinker, they gave one to every Google employee as their year end bonus.
I will keep my IE thank you very much.
When I scroll through the FreeRepublic index page. Chrome and Opera seem faster than Firefox, which seems faster than Internet Explorer.
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