But the fact is that you are an exception, not the rule. Very few people will ever have a legitimate need to have 50-100 tabs open at one time. I do a lot of online research also, but I rarely have a need to go about 10 tabs. It happens but not often. I go to all types of sites and have never once been exploited using IE. I'm not saying that FF isn't a good product, it is. I would never tell those who use it to change, but to tell someone to dump IE for FF because of the reasons you give would be bordering on silly.
-----Original Message----- From: Micheal Espinola Jr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 10:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Firefox 3.0 Download Day - TMP plugin? I'll give you that - to a point. But even FF2 was better than IE7. I am a hardcore browser user, and through the course of researching a project, I beat my tabs like they owe me money - opening 50-100 simultaneously through the course of a day. Even with 3gb+ of RAM, this will crash IE7. That much RAM doesn't matter really, because IE7 doesn't seem to operate well as it passes 500mb+ of RAM. And what happens when IE7 crashes? Bye-bye tabs and all your work! *poof!* What happens when FF2/3 crashes (with TMP's session options)? Gasp! Everything is restored right where you left off - session data and all! That's if FF2/3 would even crash, which in comparison to IE7 is waaaaay less often. I don't just arbitrarily make a statement like that. I've run these two side by side for months, banging away at them with legitimate normal use as well as research into black sites. IE7 sucks comparatively speaking. IE7 as a single-window/single-tab browser is fine, as long as you don't get exploited at a naughty site. So, you've trapped yourself to only visiting well-known sites and not using any pre-supplied URLs that might have exploits embedded. FF2/3 on the other hand simply out-performs, and out-survives IE7 for real web use and abuse. In terms of naughty-site protection, its way ahead of the curve in terms of built-in functionality and what can easily be added via extensible add-ons. On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Tim Vander Kooi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It all depends on what you are used to and what you use the tool for. (Insert > Shook reference here...) -- ME2 ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
