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to: John Beamish
from: Gary Britt
date: 2006-08-07 10:48:38
subject: Re: Is Firefox Supposed To Keep A Process Running?

From: "Gary Britt" 

Opera did get quite a good review recently from the PCMag folks comparing
it to firefox and IE7.

I'll have to try it again one day.

Gary

"John Beamish"  wrote in message
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> You forgot:
>
> 5.  Switch to Opera :-D
>
> On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 09:59:11 -0400, Frank Haber 
> wrote:
>
>> 1. I could say, "Don't obsess," but you know how much
good that would do.
>>
>> 2. There have been memory leaks galore in FF.  You could let the sliver
>> run and see whether its footprint grows.
>>
>> 3. It may just be a "fast launch" component.  Notice how
FF is MUCH
>> slower to start the first time than IE?  That's because IE cheats, and
>> loads stuff at boot.  After the first use, I think FF cheats, too.  You
>> may want that little slice of EXE/DLL to stay there.
>>
>> 4. Don't close your browser so much. (I do that, too.  I still use
>> Windows as a task switcher some of the time; 1-2G of RAM haven't stopped
>> me.  It'll take a bigger wooden mallet than that, I guess, to completely
>> crush the habit.)
>

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