Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community - View Single Post - The Anti-Firefox Thread.

Holo · 09-10-2004, 05:58 AM

We have a ton of threads about FF in here and I used to be a major proponent of the Browser and still admire it for it's addons and functionality. However, I got extremely sick of it eating 60-120MB of RAM at all times. I mean lots of games dont' even use that much! I also hated opening linked attachments in vB forums as it would force to dl it manually and open it in Irfanview which was a pain. Sites are learning how to beat FF's popup blocker now, namely xdccspy. Javascript popups would take as long as 20 sec to load on a 1.8Ghz system. The browser is just not fast enough for me.

I cant' use "naked" IE for the same reasons I started using FF in the first place; It has more holes than swiss cheese. I dont' like the way Opera looks and feels at all. I tried Avant, which is an IE shell with numerous improvements over IE but it was crash-happy and still didn't have all I wanted. Then I tried SlimBrowser. It was everything Avant was and much more, plus it's much more stable. As I write this SBrowser is eating 28MB with 10 tabs open. FF would be eating about 80-120 with this many windows open and after closing those windows to one it still would hold aabout 60MB..

If you still like FF, great. Feature wise, I still think it's a great browser. I'm just sharing why I left the fold and wanted to make this thread a place for ppl who chose "none of the above" to have their say as to why they use the browser they choose.

09-10-2004, 05:58 AM	#1 (permalink)
Holo A Real American	The Anti-Firefox Thread. We have a ton of threads about FF in here and I used to be a major proponent of the Browser and still admire it for it's addons and functionality. However, I got extremely sick of it eating 60-120MB of RAM at all times. I mean lots of games dont' even use that much! I also hated opening linked attachments in vB forums as it would force to dl it manually and open it in Irfanview which was a pain. Sites are learning how to beat FF's popup blocker now, namely xdccspy. Javascript popups would take as long as 20 sec to load on a 1.8Ghz system. The browser is just not fast enough for me. I cant' use "naked" IE for the same reasons I started using FF in the first place; It has more holes than swiss cheese. I dont' like the way Opera looks and feels at all. I tried Avant, which is an IE shell with numerous improvements over IE but it was crash-happy and still didn't have all I wanted. Then I tried SlimBrowser. It was everything Avant was and much more, plus it's much more stable. As I write this SBrowser is eating 28MB with 10 tabs open. FF would be eating about 80-120 with this many windows open and after closing those windows to one it still would hold aabout 60MB.. If you still like FF, great. Feature wise, I still think it's a great browser. I'm just sharing why I left the fold and wanted to make this thread a place for ppl who chose "none of the above" to have their say as to why they use the browser they choose. __________________ I happen to like the words "fuck", "cock", "pussy", "tits", "cunt", "twat", "shit" and even "bitch". As long as I am not using them to describe you, don't go telling me whether or not I can/should use them...that is, if you want me to continue refraining from using them to describe you. ~Prince Last edited by Holo; 09-10-2004 at 06:01 AM..