RE: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-02 Thread Stephen the Cook
Derek Kalweit wrote: I don't have crashes too often, but I see excessive memory use on both XP and W2K with FF. With less memory, I could see this causing a crash... I did a quick check online about the memory usage, and someone suggested turning off some memory caching of website content--

Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-02 Thread Ted Roche
On 4/1/07, Stephen Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I the only one who gets a semi frequent crap out of FireFox on a WinXP system? Probably not. With 100 million downloads, someone else has it misconfigured. I have several copies that have been running for weeks. None of them on XP, though.

Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-02 Thread Ted Roche
On 4/1/07, Michael Madigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still don't understand why one would develop firefox, since Microsoft's browser is free. Trollbait. But one didn't develop FireFox. Thousands did. They started with Netscape. MS didn't invent IE out of the blue, either, of course. They

[NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread Stephen Russell
Am I the only one who gets a semi frequent crap out of FireFox on a WinXP system? I have 1.5 gig ram and I can see mem use go up when the inforss reads the feeds and I click on them. I have toned the mem for inforss to a bare minimum. I have a lot of other add-ons for Firefox as well. I'd

Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread Helio W.
No. I'm getting used to exit and reload FF when it starts to eat memory. This usually happens after I open many tabs with video or flash anim... On 4/1/07, Stephen Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I the only one who gets a semi frequent crap out of FireFox on a WinXP system?

Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread Kevin Cully
Firefox 2.0 works great for me. I do close it before my noon time AVG run however. It seems to perform sluggishly after AVG runs, but it doesn't crash on me. -Kevin CULLY Technologies, LLC Sponsor of FoxForward 2007 foxforward.net Stephen Russell wrote: Am I the only one who gets a semi

Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread Derek Kalweit
Am I the only one who gets a semi frequent crap out of FireFox on a WinXP system? I don't have crashes too often, but I see excessive memory use on both XP and W2K with FF. With less memory, I could see this causing a crash... I did a quick check online about the memory usage, and someone

Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread Ed Leafe
On Apr 1, 2007, at 3:24 PM, Derek Kalweit wrote: I don't have crashes too often, but I see excessive memory use on both XP and W2K with FF. With less memory, I could see this causing a crash... I did a quick check online about the memory usage, and someone suggested turning off some memory

Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread Michael Madigan
Why run Firefox? Internet Explorer works better and is free too. --- Stephen Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am I the only one who gets a semi frequent crap out of FireFox on a WinXP system? I have 1.5 gig ram and I can see mem use go up when the inforss reads the feeds and I click on

Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread MB Software Solutions
Michael Madigan wrote: Why run Firefox? Internet Explorer works better and is free too. I missed the part in that comment about it being April Fools Day. g -- Michael J. Babcock, MCP MB Software Solutions, LLC http://mbsoftwaresolutions.com http://fabmate.com Work smarter, not harder,

Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread Michael Madigan
It reminds me when a client asks why his Celeron with 128 MB of RAM is slow running XP. --- MB Software Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Madigan wrote: Why run Firefox? Internet Explorer works better and is free too. I missed the part in that comment about it being April

Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread Whil Hentzen (Pro*)
MB Software Solutions wrote: Michael Madigan wrote: Why run Firefox? Internet Explorer works better and is free too. I missed the part in that comment about it being April Fools Day. g I thought it was April Fools Day, not April Troll's Day. Ha, silly me. I'm still using last month's

Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread Kenneth Kixmoeller/fh
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Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread Michael Madigan
Gee, I offer a better solution than constant lock-ups and I'm labeled a troll. Silly me. I thought it was April Fools Day, not April Troll's Day. --- Whil Hentzen (Pro*) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MB Software Solutions wrote: Michael Madigan wrote: Why run Firefox? Internet Explorer works

Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread Chet Gardiner
A friend of my lovely significant other's computer was taking 15-20 minutes to boot up. She was asking me about what kind of computer she should by to replace hers. I checked hers out and found that it was running a decent processor at 2gHz but that she was also running XP in about

Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread Michael Madigan
I find the graphic rendering to be slower in Firefox. I still don't understand why one would develop firefox, since Microsoft's browser is free. I understand why one would develop linux to save server OS costs I understand why one would develop OpenOffice to save on Microsoft Office costs. I

Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
On 4/1/07, Kevin Cully [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firefox 2.0 works great for me. I do close it before my noon time AVG run however. It seems to perform sluggishly after AVG runs, but it doesn't crash on me. You too, huh? I uninstalled AVG because every time I downloaded something, it hung

Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread Garrett Fitzgerald
On 4/1/07, Michael Madigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It reminds me when a client asks why his Celeron with 128 MB of RAM is slow running XP. I'm doing volunteer work at the Salvation Army these days: I've installed Xubuntu on the two machines that have come through so far with over 32M of

Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread Whil Hentzen (Pro*)
Michael Madigan wrote: I find the graphic rendering to be slower in Firefox. I still don't understand why one would develop firefox, since Microsoft's browser is free. I understand why one would develop linux to save server OS costs I understand why one would develop OpenOffice to save

RE: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread mrgmhale
period of time. Grrr... Gil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Garrett Fitzgerald Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 6:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often? On 4/1/07, Michael Madigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread Whil Hentzen (Pro*)
Michael Madigan wrote: Gee, I offer a better solution than constant lock-ups and I'm labeled a troll. Silly me. Well you made a blanket statement that isn't correct. You might have said, Internet Explorer might work better in your specific environment. That would have worked and I can't

Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread Eugene Vital
Michael Madigan wrote: I find the graphic rendering to be slower in Firefox. I don't have this problem. I still don't understand why one would develop firefox, since Microsoft's browser is free. Because M$FT IE sucks! Because they can! I understand why one would develop linux to

RE: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread Michael Madigan
PROTECTED] Behalf Of Garrett Fitzgerald Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 6:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often? On 4/1/07, Michael Madigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It reminds me when a client asks why his Celeron with 128 MB of RAM is slow running XP

Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread Michael Madigan
How does IE suck more than firefox? --- Eugene Vital [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Madigan wrote: I find the graphic rendering to be slower in Firefox. I don't have this problem. I still don't understand why one would develop firefox, since Microsoft's browser is free.

RE: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread Mike Wohlrab
Of Michael Madigan Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 6:21 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often? I find the graphic rendering to be slower in Firefox. I still don't understand why one would develop firefox, since Microsoft's browser is free. I understand why one would

Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread Derek Kalweit
I don't have crashes too often, but I see excessive memory use on both XP and W2K with FF. With less memory, I could see this causing a crash... I did a quick check online about the memory usage, and someone suggested turning off some memory caching of website content-- or at least

RE: [NF] Firefox cruds out often?

2007-04-01 Thread Michael Madigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ComputerTechnologySolutions.org FTP://MikeWohlrab.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Madigan Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 6:21 PM To: ProFox Email List Subject: Re: [NF] Firefox cruds out often? I