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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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