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Old 09-10-2004, 06:19 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by phredgreen
okay, holo... i just downloaded slimbrowser, and so far it's fine, but i'm having smart tabbrowser extensions withdrawal and i'm wondering if there's any way to import your firefox bookmarks to slimbrowser... it imported my ie bookmarks automatically, but i've made signifigant changes to my bookmarks since i migrated from ie to firefox.

Just go to Favorites-Import and it has a popup prompting you for your Bookmarks.html file that you should find in your Firefox Aplication Data under Docs and Settings.

@Welshbyte: You are right about SB being a wrapper,just as Avant is...however it gives you at least 90% of the functionality of FF as far as extensions and popup blocking plus it has the ability to block banners, Flash, and easily disable Active X unlike IE. It's like IE Done Right IMO. I really don't care about standards. I mean I am keeping FF on my box in case something really looks screwy in IE but I usually find the reverse to be true since IE is so ubiquitous.


IE has always been faster than FF. Go to the Titty Board and open one of those big ass jpg threads and try super fast scrolling with FF. It anemically jerks about and trudges rather slowly in the direction you point it. IE screams thru it like it's nothing. When I minimize SB it drops RAM usage right down to 3MB even with 13 tabs open. FF starts up eating 45+ MB and as soon as you start opening tabs it just keeps chowing down on RAM. You close all but one tab in FF and it holds the 60MB and doesn't let go. Right now SB is eating 15 MB typing this post with 12 other tabs in use. It has several security options IE doesn't have or does have but are difficult to initialize.


Don't get me wrong, I called this thread Anti-Firefox as a critique more than a slam. I'll keep FF on my PC and try new updates to see if they've fixed things, and I may need Magpie occasionally which at present SB doesn't have something comparable. I'm glad ppl gave SB a try, but I still would like to hear from ppl who use another browser as well, and the resource usage of those browsers.
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