Firefox or Explorer?
- Thread starter Chuck The DJ
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I would definitely recommend Firefox to anyone as their primary browser. Anything but IE, really. If you use Internet Explorer on a regular basis you are just asking for a slower computer, viruses, and spyware. It's a big resource hog, too.
You may run across a site now and then which will not work right with Firefox or Safari but this is rare...especially with big important sites like eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, OurDJChat.
You may run across a site now and then which will not work right with Firefox or Safari but this is rare...especially with big important sites like eBay, Amazon, Yahoo, OurDJChat.
Just a FWIW...
I've had lots of crashes, since upgrading to FF 3. It has been locking up 2-3 times per day, and I have to manually end the process, to recover.
I can't tell for sure, but since my debuggers are always running, my best guess, is it seems to have something to do with the way it renders Flash content.
I've had problems with the older versions with Flash before, so that is no big surprise -- but, 2.x seemed much more stable, and would recover on its own...
I've had lots of crashes, since upgrading to FF 3. It has been locking up 2-3 times per day, and I have to manually end the process, to recover.
I can't tell for sure, but since my debuggers are always running, my best guess, is it seems to have something to do with the way it renders Flash content.
I've had problems with the older versions with Flash before, so that is no big surprise -- but, 2.x seemed much more stable, and would recover on its own...
I've also experienced quite a few issues with FF3. I don't recommend upgrading yet. The extensions that I need have also not been rolled out for FF3. Also, the Awesome Bar is not so "Awesome". It is a terrible implementation IMHO.
FF2 remains less stable than IE, although better in other aspects. If the Firefox extensions weren't so great, I'd probably use Opera. FF2 with extensions is fundamentally flawed somehow. There are times when it has been using 500mb of memory. I need to restart it every few days because of memory leaks.
That being said, I'd never use IE as my primary browser. I can't tell you how terribly bad it is when couple with all of the absolute junk addons people install (popup blockers, toolbars, AV, etc.)
FF2 remains less stable than IE, although better in other aspects. If the Firefox extensions weren't so great, I'd probably use Opera. FF2 with extensions is fundamentally flawed somehow. There are times when it has been using 500mb of memory. I need to restart it every few days because of memory leaks.
That being said, I'd never use IE as my primary browser. I can't tell you how terribly bad it is when couple with all of the absolute junk addons people install (popup blockers, toolbars, AV, etc.)
No problems with FF 3 here under Windows. Except for when closing FF often times it tells me it crashed, when in fact it didn't from what I can see. 
It seems to only happen when I use Alt + f4 to close the window or the X in the corner rather than File > Exit
I've had problems with FF 3 & Flash under Ubuntu but Ubuntu always has issues with multimedia stuff, so no big surprise there.
It seems to only happen when I use Alt + f4 to close the window or the X in the corner rather than File > ExitI've had problems with FF 3 & Flash under Ubuntu but Ubuntu always has issues with multimedia stuff, so no big surprise there.
I just had another crash a few minutes ago, and it required a reboot, as it left a process running. My debugger was showing what looked like a conflict between my NVIDIA driver (dual displays), and FF.
Best I can tell, it only happens when a page I have opened in a tab, has Flash running on it...
I'll pop it up on their support forums.
Best I can tell, it only happens when a page I have opened in a tab, has Flash running on it...
I'll pop it up on their support forums.
Maybe it's you're fault for thinking you're a big shot with dual 22" displays?
Sorry couldn't resist..Are you running the beta Flash or the current stable Flash ver. 9.$0.124.0. ? If you're running the stable try the beta, I've read some comments that it's increased stability especially on the FF side.
http://filehippo.com/download_flashplayer_firefox/
The 22" are sooo retro Dan -- I moved to 26" a ways back
I don't refer to them as displays anymore -- they are now simply tax writeoffs -- so I don't have to bail out the folks who got mortgages they couldn't afford.
I'd rather be broke with big screens, then paying off somebody else's debt
DjDennis
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why do what others say - if it works why FIX it
I also use Portable versions of IE7 and IE8 plus Firfox and opera
so what you need ?
I also use Portable versions of IE7 and IE8 plus Firfox and opera
so what you need ?