[Tfug] firefox 2/3

[Jeffry Johnston]

Wish I could have shared your experience.. the speed seemed fine.. but
it crashed on about half the pages I went to.  FF2 crashes sometimes
too, but at least not that much.

Jeff



On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Eric M. Gearhart <eric at nixwizard.net> wrote:
> I can personally confirm that Firefox 3 beta 5 simply rocks. The memory management problems that plagued 2 are gone, and Javascript rendering is a lot faster. I routinely have to go through and close all the tabs I have open because I forget about them and end up with ~100 tabs open (and I don't notice that many are open because there's no speed decrease...)
>
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>  Eric
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>  ----- Original Message -----
>  From: "christopher" <skeptikos at gmail.com>
>  To: tfug at tfug.org
>  Sent: Monday, May 5, 2008 6:08:00 PM GMT -07:00 U.S. Mountain Time (Arizona)
>  Subject: Re: [Tfug] firefox
>
>  > On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 04:06:41PM -0700, christopher wrote:
>  >
>  > > And for that matter, since opera is giving my problems,
>  > > I seem to be without browsing options right now. lynx
>  > > isn't really an option, is it?
>  >
>  > Well, what's giving you (functional) problems in Opera? I'm a wierdo
>  > and don't have a problem with the default L&F of FireFox 2, but I'm
>  > strongly thinking about giving the FF3 beta's a try to see if the memory
>  > usage improves and if it really always saves all windows between
>  > restarts. But, knowing what's failig in Opera would help find an
>  > alternative.
>
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