I tell my family daily to NOT leave browser windows minimized, paranoid I guess. Seems like leaving a door unlocked to me but I may be wrong. fp
At 03:32 PM 1/23/2009, DHSinclair Poked the stick with: >Chris, >Thanks. OK. My habit is to open the browser when needed, do my business, >close browser, go about my business. I never have a browser OPEN all day >(except for the radio audio streams I listen to daily!). There are the >occasional "shopping" sessions! > >I am still having trouble with "tabs" for some reason. If "tabs" are enabled, >the FF3 browser just grinds to a halt quickly; like right after the 2d "tab". >If I disable "tabs" and us "open in a new browser page," FF3 works great; just >like IE. This is my current run choice. >I know that problem is here locally. I just have not found it and killed >it!!!!! LOL! >Several have suggested that I just kill/erase the current FF install and start >fresh. An option, perhaps, but I am still wondering why? I started w/FF3.01 >and am not at FF3.05 (using NoScript and CSLite). > >Whatever. Not an operational issue for me ATM. >Best, >Duncan > >At 17:03 01/23/2009 -0500, you wrote: >>On Fri, 23 Jan 2009, DHSinclair wrote: >> >>>Bino, >>>Let's just agree to disagree then. For me, IE7 just stinks, period. >>>IE6sp1 is fine in either the W2K version or the XP version. Yes, I have been >>>schooled, cajoled, prattled at, and scolded into certain necessary tricks to >>>"harden" IE. Certainly not perfect, but so far so good. >>> >>>Then again, of course, I am not browser-centric either. >>> >>>Can you expand on the "memory leak issues?" Many in the collective >>>now use FF and I do not recall hearing about this. What exactly is a >>>"memory leak" anyway? >>>Thanks, >>>Duncan >> >>Meh, my order of Preference is FF3 > FF2 > IE7 > IE6. >> >>Tabs are a must, and IE6 doesn't support them out of the box. >> >> >>The memory leak isn't a leak per say, it's just that the way firefox is >>written it caches stuff. a LOT of stuff. If you have firefox open and >>rarely close it (I am like that at work -- restart firefox every couple of >>WEEKS) and run with a bunch of tabs (6+ or more) you'll run into instances >>where firefox grows to use all the available memory on the system. >> >> >>It can be controlled by doing various tweaks, but mostly it's just a matter >>of minimizing it and restoring it. >> >> >>Christopher Fisk >> >>-- >>This message has been scanned for viruses and >>dangerous content by MailScanner, and is >>believed to be clean. -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- Living: The best demonstration of victory over mortality.
