[frosty_ramen]

Which Internet browser is best?

i currently us firefox and really like it, but the drawback is its memory usage.
i usually have pandora radio (www.pandora.com) and have this forum open and it is using right now 172,684k and my autocad is using only 150,164k. there has to be a better way. any suggestions are welcome.

[Hervé]

I'd buy or steal more ram...

[Maximus3D]

Hehe, good solution Hervé

Opera is number one! it uses little ram and it's much faster and lots more stable than FireFox is.

/ Max

[frosty_ramen]

uhmmmm.......
i think i'd rather have an octacore

[Thomas An.]

Have you tried the firefox 3.0 beta to see if it works better for you memory and speed-wise ?

[frosty_ramen]

Thanks for the advise

any one out there using firefox 3.04 beta? Problems?
or is it just worth my while just to download Opera



-Dan

[Thomas An.]

Works fine ... but some of your extensions may not work. (You may want to try and disable the compatibility checking)

In About:config
1. Right-click -> New -> Boolean
2. for name type -> extensions.checkCompatibility
3. for value select --> false

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Burnette/?p=548
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/ ... troun.html

[frosty_ramen]

Well my boss said stay away from firefox beta, so i tried opera.
and right now with this forum and Pandora radio open, opera is running at 103,000k
so a significant change and it seems to have a nice ui so i think that ill stay with opera....atleast untill somthing better


thanks

dan

[Thomas An.]

In that case you may also want to try Safari 3.1 for windows. It is the fastest browser in town for the moment.

[frosty_ramen]

well actually now with opera minimized its running at 17,000k
so i think ill just stay

[-Adrian]

I like Firefox. I have 4GB, so its memory usage really doesn't bother me. Firefox 3 will likely beat both Opera and IE7/8 in terms of memory consumption.

As someone who likes to make websites, i can only advice not to use Internet Explorer, you're doing everyone a great favor. There's not excuse

[Fernando Tella]

well actually now with opera minimized its running at 17,000k
so i think ill just stay

This got me thinking that my oldy MSX only had 64k (that was all ram, no hard drives)

[KurtS]

get some handy toolbars and use Firefox:

[Hervé]

clustered you say... no no.. just busy... hehe

[Thomas An.]

get some handy toolbars and use Firefox:

Incredible