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Thor · 09-29-2011, 01:56 AM

I've been seeing huge jumps in memory as well with FF7 when viewing videos, youtube, etc.. Last night I found the browser slow/jumpy when scrolling so I checked to see what my memory usage was and found it at 800mb.

Thats just crazyness, and Photon, 3gb?!? Holy somethings gotta be wrong.

ma-skis.com · 09-29-2011, 02:40 AM

I went with chrome, but it came down to which one opens the fastest after I click it when I turn on my machine

I hate watching that stupid icon bounce while I wait for internet

photon · 09-29-2011, 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Thor

Thats just crazyness, and Photon, 3gb?!? Holy somethings gotta be wrong.

Just lots of different windows and tabs, and Chrome isolates them all so they all have a bigger overhead.

Hack&Lube · 09-29-2011, 09:20 AM

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Originally Posted by TopChed

I think I'd like Opera a lot more if it were easier to block ads. What do you Opera users do to take care of that? Do you block each ad individually?

I downloaded Opera just to try it out after reading this thread, but even after one night of using it, it became a hassle to manually click on and block every ad that would come up.

https://addons.opera.com/en/addons/e...-adblock/0.52/

Starfishy · 09-29-2011, 01:49 PM

As a firefox user I would also be interested in what Add-ons people use frequently. I don't have any installed.

Teh_Bandwagoner · 09-29-2011, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Starfishy

As a firefox user I would also be interested in what Add-ons people use frequently. I don't have any installed.

Most of the time I use Chrome. But when I need to view an FTP site, Firefox with the FireFTP add-on is the way to go for me.

wooohooo · 09-30-2011, 12:34 AM

I started off in Firefox, loved it... tried Chrome didn't like it. Tried Opera one day, now I can't stop using it. Although there are some sights and programs that don't open with Opera ie. some banking sites, blackboard etc... that I have to use firefox but everything else, it's wonderful!

Arsenal14 · 09-30-2011, 09:54 AM

Looks like Microsoft has weighed in. The Microsoft anti-virus program we use at my office has decided that Google Chrome is a virus and deleted it. Looks like they are getting false positives identifying it as a win32/zbot "password stealer". Firefox continues to work and I'm sure IE is unaffected but I haven't felt like running it to find out.

jtfrogger · 09-30-2011, 10:00 AM

Here is an article about performance of various browsers. http://lifehacker.com/5844150/browse...rer-9-and-more

Bertuzzied · 09-30-2011, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by Starfishy

As a firefox user I would also be interested in what Add-ons people use frequently. I don't have any installed.

I only use 2. One is to download youtube or flash videos and the other is to download youtube videos to mp3.

MickMcGeough · 09-30-2011, 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by jtfrogger

Here is an article about performance of various browsers. http://lifehacker.com/5844150/browse...rer-9-and-more

Haha. Skipped page one did ya?

jtfrogger · 09-30-2011, 10:32 AM

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Originally Posted by MickMcGeough

Haha. Skipped page one did ya?

Sorry, I thought you just posted a review of FF7 and didn't click the link.

Cain · 09-30-2011, 10:48 AM

I was using safari after finishing my hackintosh, but I am now going back to Firefox. I have trouble adapting to life without the NoScript addon, especially when I venture into private browsing for...innocent reasons.

No, but really, NoScript is the best addon there is. Also works great on sites like tsn.ca so you can actually watch their videos without a 15-30s ad before every single 1 min video clip.

woob · 09-30-2011, 11:03 AM

Been using Chrome for a couple years now and find it to be quick and easy for most browsing. At work, I have a few things I know to open in IE as they just don't work as well in Chrome (management pages and such). The one thing I'm not a fan of is that spot Chrome seems to hit when you've got multiple tabs open and it just renders your system useless. Kill Chrome and you're back in action. I try my best to keep my tabs around 5-6 due to this.

yads · 09-30-2011, 11:35 AM

The only reason I use Chrome over Firefox is the separate processes for each tab. If one tab crashes it doesn't crash the whole browser. Flash still sucks on Chrome, but at least I can restart flash without shutting the browser down. Does FF7 have this now?

Vulcan · 09-30-2011, 02:10 PM

Add-ons I use in Firefox are Adblock Plus, AVG Safe Search (add-on for AVG), BetterPrivacy, Canadian English Dictionary, CookieSafe, Disconnect (not sure of this ones usefulness), Forecastfox, and Modify Headers(not sure about this one either).

SebC · 09-30-2011, 10:56 PM

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Originally Posted by yads

The only reason I use Chrome over Firefox is the separate processes for each tab. If one tab crashes it doesn't crash the whole browser. Flash still sucks on Chrome, but at least I can restart flash without shutting the browser down. Does FF7 have this now?

FF3 has that... you just kill plugin-container.exe in task manager.

Gravitykillr · 10-24-2011, 06:32 PM

I'm getting quite frustrated with Firefox 7, with a fresh install of Windows 7 it constantly crashes, and crash's when I'm sitting on a website (Cp being one)

Flash Walken · 10-24-2011, 07:08 PM

Gave chrome a try.

Hooked.

Totally forgot I even used firefox.

Any must have chrome extensions?

TurnedTheCorner · 10-24-2011, 10:21 PM

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