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New Firefox Web browser to be released Tuesday
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| June 12, 2008
| Anick Jesdanun (Associated Press)
Posted on 06/12/2008 6:02:12 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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I like Firefox, personally. I use it at work. It usually doesn't freeze up or close itself due to an error the way Internet Explorer sometimes does.
To: ShadowAce
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I like the “Restore Last Session” feature.
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posted on
06/12/2008 6:05:11 PM PDT
by
uptoolate
(The Republican fear of Liberalism is why we are in this predicament)
To: uptoolate
That feature absolutely rules.
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posted on
06/12/2008 6:07:30 PM PDT
by
Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(To the liberal, there's no sacrifice too big for somebody else to make. --FReeper popdonnelly)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I use Firefox almost exclusively, but the one complaint I have about it is the propensity toward “memory leaks”. It ends up committing way too much RAM, which I have tried to address (unsuccessfully to date) by creating new integer and Boolean values.
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posted on
06/12/2008 6:07:57 PM PDT
by
andy58-in-nh
(Peace is Not The Question.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
the only reason i use IE 7 is for that little magnifier button on the lower left corner, It comes in handy.
I wonder if this new version will have that.
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posted on
06/12/2008 6:09:41 PM PDT
by
mowowie
To: mowowie
The new version is supposed to magnify both text and pictures when you hold down the CNTL key and spin the wheel on the mouse.
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posted on
06/12/2008 6:17:00 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Another Firefox fan, especially with the extensions that make it easy to use FR. But it absolutely gags on many TV web sites with current video or live streaming radio. I gave up trying to nurse it and just use an add-on called IE View to go directly to IE-6 for viewing/listening.
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posted on
06/12/2008 6:18:25 PM PDT
by
CedarDave
(Obama dissing God and country: campaign won't use "religion as a wedge and patriotism as a bludgeon")
To: andy58-in-nh
I use Firefox almost exclusively, but the one complaint I have about it is the propensity toward memory leaks. It ends up committing way too much RAM
I've noticed the same thing- It seems as though it grabs more memory each time you open a tab and doesn't let it go when you close the tab(s)
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posted on
06/12/2008 6:18:38 PM PDT
by
WackySam
(We Conservatives must return to voting for those who share our values- not against those who don't.)
To: rabscuttle385
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posted on
06/12/2008 6:19:15 PM PDT
by
CedarDave
(Obama dissing God and country: campaign won't use "religion as a wedge and patriotism as a bludgeon")
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I like Firefox, personally. I use it at work. Same here.
The only problem I have on my Win2k3 box at work is that after an hour or so, the memory usage slowly balloons from the usual ~30Mb to over 150Mb. It really slogs the machine....which doesn't have as much RAM as it should.
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posted on
06/12/2008 6:21:23 PM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(The secret of Life is letting go. The secret of Love is letting it show.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I used to use Firefox, but I started using Safari in addition to Explorer instead. A lot of pages look better on Safari than Firefox.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I’m running Opera (9.5 today) Firefox, Safari and IE, all have advantages when you get a PC with some RAM!
All are cool!
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posted on
06/12/2008 6:28:06 PM PDT
by
Shady
(The Fairness Doctrine is ANYTHING but fair!!!!)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
...an updated password manager that doesn't disrupt the log-in process. That's been the one that's annoyed me most often.
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posted on
06/12/2008 6:29:23 PM PDT
by
seowulf
To: andy58-in-nh
Good news—the Mozilla Foundation extensively changed the memory handling so Firefox 3.0 no longer “hogs” system RAM to cache web sites. After all, web site caching is less needed with more and more Internet users now on broadband connections.
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I hope they increase its security more, I got my first malware ever the other week on Vista using Firefox, IE blocked that site completely. As far as freeze ups etc you are right Firefox doesn’t crash as often but it most certainly does lock up, certain video players do muck it up. Frankly IE and Firefox both have their positives IMO, so I will download both when they come available.
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posted on
06/12/2008 6:33:13 PM PDT
by
aft_lizard
(One animal actually its eats its own brains to conserve energy, we call them liberals.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
06/12/2008 6:37:53 PM PDT
by
ETL
To: RayChuang88
That does sound promising. I’m looking forward to the release.
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posted on
06/12/2008 6:40:05 PM PDT
by
andy58-in-nh
(Peace is Not The Question.)
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
I wonder if it will have a zoom feature similar to IE7?
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posted on
06/12/2008 6:40:49 PM PDT
by
ETL
To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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posted on
06/12/2008 6:41:08 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
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