Browser War :: IE8 (beta-II) on the way to Wipe out Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, Watch Out!

Technology Dump Blog ^ | Friday, December 26, 2008 | Vishnu Ghimire

[freedumb2003]

I only have 512MB of RAM. Firefox wants about a fifth of it.

I think DOS 2.0 is the only O/S that will run comfortably in that amount of RAM.

[numberonepal]

You've got to be kidding.

Well if your tea gets cold, then damn the efficient production. Are you English?

[numberonepal]

Actually it's not GreaseMonkey itself

Good point, but get rid of GreaseMonkey and re-install from the official Mozilla site if you MUST run the add-on. Besides, Fire Bug can accomplish many of the same goals as GreaseMonkey of you want to tinker with the way a designer intended the page to look.

[Tennessee_Bob]

Run CP/M - nobody writes virii for CP/M

[stylin19a]

I knew exactly what you were saying...I was just adding my 2 cents regarding IE7 - where you can already delete browsing history.

I was just wondering if they took it out of Beta 1 and put it back in Beta 2...sorry i wasn’t clear.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

OS/2 could run very well with that much memory....RIP though!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

ROFL!...

One of those small Netbooks would handle that one nicely!

[freedumb2003]

OS/2 could run very well with that much memory....RIP though!

They ruined it when they went to 2.0. 1.5 (IIRC) was super solid.

[BurbankKarl]

High security levels on my browser, automatic updates to IE and my virus software (ESET)

[ThePythonicCow]

It had been crashing 4-5 times a day for the past few months. Not sure why.

Firefox frequently crashes (freezes solid) for me when or shortly after I close a tab in which I have played an Adobe Flash video. Fortunately the automatic session management save and restore feature works well, and I get more or less all my tabs restored correctly when I restart.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

PSSSSTTTTT!......

You're SUPPOSED to spew vile, hatred and disgust for all Microsoft products on these threads.

But I, like you have had great results from Vista and love the clean crisp graphics. The very worst browser I have had the misfortune to use is Firefox. The graphics and color is nothing short of cheesy. The format sucks also.

Note to all Microsoft Derangement Syndrome sufferers: (MSDS)
Try blowing into a paper bag repeatedly. It helps those dizzy spells caused by too much hyperventilation, immensely.

[Red in Blue PA]

Re: The very worst browser I have had the misfortune to use is Firefox.

Try Google Chrome. Never have I used a browser so poorly designed, and that is saying something as I have tried alot. Admittedly, I tried an early version, but every time I used it it crashed. EVERY TIME!

Would never touch it again.

And I agree with you regarding the MS Derangement syndrome. MS has its shortcomings, but eventually they get things right.

[PSYCHO-FREEP]

Yes they do. And I cannot forget that they were the ones mainly responsible for bringing us the PC revolution in the first place, because they stepped beyond the strangle hold Apple had on the market, and allowed the Asian computer explosion to take place. (IBM compatible)

We owe them far more respect than they get here.

[Red in Blue PA]

And nobody will ever bring up the fact that Steve Jobs got the idea for the GUI and the mouse from Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC).

Many (most?) of his ideas were not really his like the media portrays them to be.