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

[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...