Firefox woes...

[theoldwolf]

IE7 is like a Ford Escort. Very standard, very boring, and mostly reliable.

Firefox... ah, Firefox.

It's like having a Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow. Exquisite workmanship. Beautiful to look at, a joy to drive, every feature you could possibly want. And gets 6 miles to the gallon, won't drive over 45 mph, inexplicably stops every block, and takes 45 seconds to restart.

I've tried every resource-management tweak I can find out there - caching, pipelining, shutting down automatic updates, you name it. It still starts up with painful sluggishness, uses huge amounts of system resources, slows down to a crawl and crashes inexplicably.



I love this browser, but I'm always frustrated with its shortcomings. There seems to be no help for the widow's son...

Comments

[jamesb]

Have a look at Orca. I'm hearing good things about this rework of Firefox.

I don't run either Orca or Firefox. I'm using the Sea Monkey ... the continuation of the old Mozilla suite.

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

Ta mate, I'll be sure to check Orca out!

[carlfoxmarten]

I'm getting rather frustrated with Firefox myself, as version 3.0 hasn't improved tabbed-browsing by much, and part has also stepped back several feet.
(click a link in one tab, then switch back to another tab to browse while you wait for the first tab to finish loading, and it won't switch until the first tab's finished loading! That's what's annoying me about it the most)

[carlfoxmarten]

I forgot to mention, though, that I have figured out how themes work under Firefox, so maybe I'll be able to keep a theme alive long enough through all the version changes they've been making recently...

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

Who's your friend with the thin legs and one eye? I think I saw him in ReBoot once...

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

Widow's son? You a Freemason?

[ccdesan.livejournal.com]

Good catch. I personally am not, but I have a good friend who is, a 33rd degree Master Mason of the Scottish rite.

Furthermore, when Joseph Smith was murdered at Carthage, just before he was shot, he is reputed to have raised his hands in the masonic distress sign and begun the formula with "O Lord my God"... whether he was able to complete it with "Is there no help for the widow's son" is in dispute, as the varying eyewitness accounts do not agree. Although he and his brother Hyrum found themselves at odds with the Masons, they were both members in good standing at the time of their deaths.

Lastly, the dust jacket of "The DaVinci Code" has this distress cry embedded in it with bolded letters throughout the text - this was what caught my attention and made me absolutely have to read the book... I'm fascinated by cryptography and such things.