Firefox woes...
Apr. 18th, 2009 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theoldwolfIE7 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...
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...
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Date: 2009-04-19 04:44 am (UTC)(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)
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Date: 2009-04-19 07:36 am (UTC)