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Thread ID: 83875 2007-10-16 02:34:00 Firefox is just a load of bloated cr@p... zcc (50) Press F1
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601992 2007-10-16 02:34:00 Not my opinion but this guys...

www.pcmag.com

BTW he is a well known commentator on IT/PC's for decades!
zcc (50)
601993 2007-10-16 02:38:00 Dont care, I have always used it and always will. In my opinion its 10 times better than IE. ronyville (10611)
601994 2007-10-16 02:51:00 Yeah I'm aware FF uses quite a bit more memory than IE and is often plagued by memory leaks (google around for fixes).

You just need to go easy on the extensions you do install and make sure you only install ones that you really need. I notice a lot of people have Foxytunes installed yet most of the time they end up opening their media player from the taskbar.
jason_f90 (3544)
601995 2007-10-16 02:51:00 He says:

Just look at Firefox, one of the poster children for open source. It loads more slowly than ever. It will be on some page within a tab, and that page will be refreshing ads or something in the background, and Firefox just hangs all its cycles there, slowing down the whole computer. Every couple of days the browser is hogging cycles, and I have to go to the Task Manager and kill it.


I use Mozilla so I wouldn't know. There are other choices out there too, its not IE or FF only you know.
pctek (84)
601996 2007-10-16 02:57:00 I use Mozilla so I wouldn't know. There are other choices out there too, its not IE or FF only you know.

Avant browser.
jason_f90 (3544)
601997 2007-10-16 03:01:00 Dont care, I have always used it and always will. In my opinion its 10 times better than IE.

I'm with you on that one:thumbs:



Just look at Firefox, one of the poster children for open source. It loads more slowly than ever. It will be on some page within a tab, and that page will be refreshing ads or something in the background, and Firefox just hangs all its cycles there, slowing down the whole computer. Every couple of days the browser is hogging cycles, and I have to go to the Task Manager and kill it.
Maybe he needs to check his PC rather than ***** about FF. If Firefox was that slow for me I would never have gone for it.
winmacguy (3367)
601998 2007-10-16 04:32:00 Not my opinion but this guys...

www.pcmag.com

BTW he is a well known commentator on IT/PC's for decades!Incidentally, the link you posted was a rant about Open Source, not about Firefox. He was using FF as an example. But you knew that right ;)

Anyway, thats his opinion, and he's entitled to have it

IMHO open source rocks :thumbs:
Myth (110)
601999 2007-10-16 06:13:00 Eh, FF could and does take up 200k of memory sometimes (40 or so tabs open) and I don't really care. Its great, its still faster than IE and much safer and the add-on's simpl can't be matched.

If he's unhappy with FF, he;s more than welcome to go back to IE:lol:

PS. They are fixing the memory leaks in Grand Paradiso.
beeswax34 (63)
602000 2007-10-16 08:15:00 I used to respect that guy until MS started helping with his pay cheque.
That was a pretty pathetic rant of his and gives the appearance that he is on their payroll now.
mikebartnz (21)
602001 2007-10-16 08:20:00 I used to respect that guy until MS started helping with his pay cheque.
That was a pretty pathetic rant of his and gives the appearance that he is on their payroll now.

Its not the first and it won't be his last unfortunately.
winmacguy (3367)
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