On Aug 26, 4:48 am, Illirik Smirnov <illir...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh. That could be a problem for you. > You could always just use another browser, like Opera or Konqueror (I have a > love/hate relationship with Safari. Don't ask.) > Sent from a computer running either the SPARC, Itanium, or PowerPC > architecture. > > On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Yersinia <yersi...@verizon.net> wrote: > > Illirik writes, > > > <Who uses Firefox?> > > Well I used to use it all the time until about 9 months ago when it seemed to > go very unstable (I can't remember which version). From memory it used to > quite often hang when I tried to shut it down, so I had to use 'Force Quit', > and also used to flag up an irritatingly twee message about having problems > restoring previous tabs when re-opened, even when opening after a clean > shutdown. As I recall, if I clicked on restore anyway it used to manage > perfectly well, despite the faux angst, and restored my tabs without a > problem! At the time a Mac and Hackintosh-using friend recommended Camino, and after a short learning curve I found it to be very stable (it has only crashed a couple of times) and has a very clean user interface and is smooth running. The only issue is a strange one, related to eBay. Occasionally if I click on an item to view it, I get a message from eBay saying that this listing has been restricted, either due to an issue relating to French perfume trademarks, or to US restrictions on military-related hardware (this is usually on listings for 2nd World War communications receivers - go figure!). Talking with my MacHack friend I mentioned this and he says he has occasionally noticed this problem but it only occurs with Camino, and having tried opening these 'blocked' listings in Firefox they open quite normally. He thinks that this is something in eBay, rather than a fault in Camino. But generally Camino is a great browser. FWIW on the odd occasions I use Firefox, (mostly to use downloadHelper for UTube videos), it seems stable and reliable these days, and on the odd occasion when I have to use a Windoze machine it beats the crap out of Internet Explorer, which I find clunky and nasty. I have tried Safari but I can't get enthusiastic about it,
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