Shadow Phoenix
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Post by Shadow Phoenix on Jul 11, 2009 15:12:44 GMT -5
I have officialy given up on Firefox. It got the point where it crashed more often than windows (actually, about once a minute), and was taking up most my this crappy computer's virtual memory as it was.
So I downloaded Opera, and it seems okay so far.
What do you all use?
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Post by Sephiroth X on Jul 11, 2009 19:50:56 GMT -5
I actually alternate alot between Firefox (v3), Google Chrome, and Internet Explorer 8. Surprisingly I actually like IE8 alot, it seems like a refined version of v7 (kind of like how Windows 7 is a streamlined Vista), my only gripe with it is that I just prefer the old IE6 interface. Chrome is pretty basic and loads shit nice and fast, the way it shold be. I don't use Opera, I have mixed impressions about it and I don't see anything about it that one of the previous 3 browsers doesnt do better.
Unfortunately I'm not very impressed with Firefox 3, it's gone the route of IE6/7 and has a few too many bells and whistles that bog down everything. I wish they would have just tweeked Firefox 2 and fixed some of its security issues and other things, since v2 was pretty nice, but they never did and it seems like they're pushing forced upgrades to Firefox 3 now as well.
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Post by ZaCloud on Jul 11, 2009 23:24:54 GMT -5
Well, upgrading to Firefox 3.5 seemed to fix a lot of the problems I had with 3, so that's what I'm mostly on. Otherwise I use IE 6. It has yet to let me down, though I usually use FF for the plug-ins I have on it being convenient and often-used.
I looked into Chrome, but its cookie options are too limited currently; it either allows all cookies or none. Meaning you can't stay signed into sites, or can get spyware freely. Unless they come up with the "don't accept 3rd-party cookies" and "Ask me everytime" options the other browsers have, I won't be using that.
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Post by remixedcat on Jul 11, 2009 23:43:49 GMT -5
The worst thing about FF is the damn bloat! 400 some for 8 tabs after FF 3.5
oh BTW the 3.1 beta was renamed to FF 3.5! That tells yah something!
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Post by Sephiroth X on Jul 12, 2009 11:45:24 GMT -5
Well, upgrading to Firefox 3.5 seemed to fix a lot of the problems I had with 3, so that's what I'm mostly on. Otherwise I use IE 6. It has yet to let me down, though I usually use FF for the plug-ins I have on it being convenient and often-used. I looked into Chrome, but its cookie options are too limited currently; it either allows all cookies or none. Meaning you can't stay signed into sites, or can get spyware freely. Unless they come up with the "don't accept 3rd-party cookies" and "Ask me everytime" options the other browsers have, I won't be using that. where i work we still use IE6 as our standard browser too, the problem is that there are just so many security exploits for 6 that we are on the brink of upgrading to 7 or 8 soon. Since there are some really (really) nasty virus's out there right now our whole help desk department is getting really sick of cleaning of virus's daily. |
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Post by ZaCloud on Jul 12, 2009 12:00:06 GMT -5
Hmmm, and just after me saying that Firefox 3.5 is decent, it started swelling (with pride perhaps?) and decided to make typing in text-boxes super choppy and take up 99% CPU if I type too fast. Blargh. It's otherwise fast, but I guess it has random problems still.
RC, it's just a renamed beta? Now that sucks, no wonder it's fudging up now...
Man, ya just can't win nowadays. Durn hackers... Oh well... Opera's cool, has a few clumsinesses about it but I do like to use it sometimes. If you're short on bandwidth or just really want a page to open quickly, you can set it to temporarily not load images. And you can have it auto-refresh to your specifications (I used to cheat and get Gaia gold that way, lol ^_^;; ) So it does have good qualities, that and session-saving built in.
I'll either switch back to it or IE soon if this poop keeps up. I got spoiled by my advanced session manager though. >.<
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Post by remixedcat on Jul 12, 2009 14:40:42 GMT -5
Opera also has leaks in it as well. Jumps to 512MB while having 10 tabs open. And it still lets ads through even on my uber locked down state. Grrrrr. and a good bit of those ads can let viruses through. That's why it is good to have a full ad blocker. also ads slow down your system alot specially flash ads. I even have a HOSTS file to block ads globally on my system.
Opera used to be a pay to use browser BTW....
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Post by AltruisticCrono on Jul 12, 2009 18:03:34 GMT -5
Hmm... really depends on where you tend to surf with browsers and what you expect from them. Firefox is still my primary one (home and work) and occasionally I'll use IE8. FF crashes when viewing QuickTime files, but only because I don't want to even view those in my browser (set those files to "Ask to be Opened", but it does anyways).
I have a strange menu staying bug, but I live with it. I can't justify browsing with 10 tabs ever, but I will have 2 seperate FF's open since I have a wide monitor.
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Post by remixedcat on Jul 13, 2009 3:25:57 GMT -5
OMFG!IE8FTW!!
here's the awesome thing....
it runs each tab in a SEPERATE PROCESS!!!!
go to task manager and i see an iexplorer.exe process for EACH TAB!
that way if one tab fucks up the session is ok!
This alone makes IE8 worth it.
I had to reformat becuase server 2008 was confused and could not boot becuase I had the windows update service turned off.
PLEASE TURN AUTOMATIC UPDATES ON AND HAVE THE WINDOWS UPDATE SERVICE ENABLED IN YOUR SERVICES.MSC CONTROL APPLET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT RENDERS WINDOWS UNBOOTABLE!!!!
BEING ON MANUAL DOES NOT CUT IT!!!!
SET IT TO AUTOMATIC (DELAYED START)
AGAIN PLEASE FOLLOW THIS BEFORE INSTALLING IE8 OR ANY UPDATES!!!
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Post by Monochrome Rainbow on Jul 13, 2009 17:25:02 GMT -5
OMFG!IE8FTW!! here's the awesome thing.... it runs each tab in a SEPERATE PROCESS!!!! go to task manager and i see an iexplorer.exe process for EACH TAB! that way if one tab fucks up the session is ok! This alone makes IE8 worth it. Google Chrome had this before IE8. The only time I ever use IE8 is at work when I'm on the company's intranet or when I need to do windows updates.  |
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Post by remixedcat on Jul 13, 2009 19:53:15 GMT -5
FF don't run each tab in it's own process so  one tab crashes.... IT THE WHOLE THING! chrome just seems like the hip browser of the minute. people say it's cool so people flock to it. hip marketing and the google fad at its best. chrome is also babied down like mad. Not a fangirl BTW. but st least this saves me from pulling my har out and getting an aneyrism over a browser like I was earlier. damn it was hell yesterday before the reformat. I got so mad I broke a cup and threw the cat food all over the room that was in it. |
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one tab crashes.... IT THE WHOLE THING!