fp,
THAT IS MY POLICY also..............not to worry.
Duncan
At 17:37 01/23/2009 -0700, you wrote:
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
>>
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