[SLL] Laughing down Firefox today at my work...

[Nicholas Bodley]

On Tuesday 08 January 2008 21:53:50 Kurt Buff wrote:

> I don't use X on my *nix boxes, but I'll pipe up anyway.

(Do you mean X window System? I'm gently confusen; not important.)

> Firefox is *tons* better than IE on my MSFT boxes,
Ouch; I never use IE unless the task is essential and there's no 
alternative. Haven't had such a situation for quite a while...
(Recent news , conceivably a spoof, says that MS is discontinuing IE.)

> Whatever the cause, any page that does lots of refreshes (gmail, in
> particular seems to cause the issue) memory just climbs, until I have
> to kill FF and start it over.

On XP, its GUI still works, but, so to speak, command the GUI feeds to the 
application itself are ignored. At that point, I kill it with the task 
manager.

> I suppose it doesn't help that I have (usually) 20-30 windows open,
> and many of those have several-to-many tabs open,
[...]
I typically have only 2 or 3 windows open, and only one with lots of tabs.

> Fortunately, it keeps session state, so after I kill it, I'll have 
everything back the way I want it soonish.

So nice, indeed! Opera has done that for a long time; it's newer, in 
Firefox.

Regards,

-- 
Nicholas Bodley
Waltham, Mass.
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