Chrome is much faster than Firefox on older machines. I can watch youtube videos in Chrome without bogging down.
--- On Wed, 2/3/10, Dave Crozier <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Dave Crozier <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: [NF] Firefox 3.6 Memory Use > To: "'ProFox Email List'" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, February 3, 2010, 1:46 AM > Gene, > My experience is somewhat similar. I have still had the > memory usage up and > the consequent "we are sorry...there was a problem" message > but not half as > much as with 3.7. The real thing that seems to screw it up > is Flash after a > while it just goes mental and I wonder whether this is a > flash problem as > opposed to a Firefox problem, but there you go. > > On a slightly different tack, the new Google Chrome is > much, much slicker > than the older version and it certainly seems to be coming > up on the rails > as a browser contender now that there are addons > available. > > Dave Crozier > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf > Of Gene Wirchenko > Sent: 03 February 2010 04:38 > To: ProFox Email List > Subject: [NF] Firefox 3.6 Memory Use > > Dear Vixens and Reynards: > > Firefox 3.5.6 (and earlier versions) > had memory issues. Over > time, it would nibble memory. Task Manager showed it > once as having > just over 591,000K and during the subsequent termination, > it got to > just over 600,000K. This was on my 1GB system. > > Firefox 3.6 appears to be acting > better, but had about 1/2 GB > recently. It seems to have gone down by itself to > about 1/3 GB. > > Does anyone know why? I am > wondering if VFP is involved as it > is the other program running on my system that will take > all it can get. > > What are your experiences with Firefox > 3.6? > > Sincerely, > > Gene Wirchenko > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] > > _______________________________________________ > Post Messages to: [email protected] > Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox > OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech > Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox > This message: > http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/9623b16c9491470990b4f23010752...@develop > ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are > the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or > medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for > those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious. > _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
