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  • elredeyegrande 20 May 2008 14:22:55 2,382 posts
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    Magic Panda wrote:
    mowgli wrote:
    God help us if Dirtbox notices this thread again. Some of his posts are cringe worthy.
    /activates the IRONOMAN signal
    Lol.

    Opera is better though. So he's fucking right. Why not help people change to a better browser?
  • Dirtbox 20 May 2008 14:29:53 73,708 posts
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    Who is this mowgli person?

    I've never noticed him before.

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  • postal 20 May 2008 14:29:57 104 posts
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    how good is Opera though (besides performance)? the only reason i tend to recommend FF stems from its Adblock/G.Filter plugin. Does Opera support similar features?
  • elredeyegrande 20 May 2008 14:35:45 2,382 posts
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    postal wrote:
    how good is Opera though (besides performance)? the only reason i tend to recommend FF stems from its Adblock/G.Filter plugin. Does Opera support similar features?
    Yeah, you can easily block Ads. I don't know where the list for my blocked content is though. It's probably in the Opera thread.

    A quick google can get you a block content list too.
  • Dirtbox 20 May 2008 14:36:22 73,708 posts
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    Yeah, opera does everything that firefox does with most of the stuff that requires plugins being built in etc plah. Read the thread or search the opera thread.

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  • Salaman 20 May 2008 14:44:12 16,590 posts
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    Fatfish wrote:
    Whenever this error occurs and the repair is carried out, FF appears to revert back to a fresh install - all bookmarks deleted, no history details and when the browser is opened, I'm greeted by the 'Welcome to FF' page rather than my homepage.
    I've not had the issue at shutdown but in the last 6 months or so I have had FF revert back to a fresh install twice which was annoying.
  • Aretak 20 May 2008 14:49:57 9,934 posts
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    elredeyegrande wrote:
    Yeah, you can easily block Ads. I don't know where the list for my blocked content is though.
    In the 'Content' subsection of the advanced preferences. There's a button labelled 'Blocked Content' which lets you manage the list (although the editor is rather basic and clunky at the moment).
  • elredeyegrande 20 May 2008 15:00:33 2,382 posts
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    Aretak wrote:
    elredeyegrande wrote:
    Yeah, you can easily block Ads. I don't know where the list for my blocked content is though.
    In the 'Content' subsection of the advanced preferences. There's a button labelled 'Blocked Content' which lets you manage the list (although the editor is rather basic and clunky at the moment).
    Heh, I worded that a bit weirdly. I meant I don't remember where I got the list from.

    I know how to do the rest, but cheers anyway!
  • postal 20 May 2008 15:03:29 104 posts
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    sounds promising. i'll play around with it this weekend and take a look see. thanks for the heads-up, fellas.
  • MrWonderstuff 29 May 2008 17:56:57 1,741 posts
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    Righty. I have stopped using Firefox due to problems with it not playing Flash video when I have multiple tabs open. Have downloaded Opera and its fine and dandy.
  • PinkSpider 29 May 2008 18:00:29 3,341 posts
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    Firefox has been doing the whole crash thing with me frequently.

    Luckily when you end task, most of the time it remembers what you where on.

    I'd go over to Opera (again). But Firefox is familiar :/

    Also; using Opera on my mums mac and it's almost as bad (on the mac though FF just randomly crashes).
  • MrWonderstuff 29 May 2008 18:02:26 1,741 posts
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    Firefox was familiar (been using it for a few years). However, it really isnt that much different. Give it a go...import your bookmarks and see what you think.
  • PinkSpider 29 May 2008 18:18:31 3,341 posts
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    I shall give it a go.

    I do try to move over now and then. I do like the dialling page and some other stuff.

    It just doesent feel the same.
  • sanctusmortis 29 May 2008 21:33:29 8,624 posts
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    Firefox for PC, Opera for phone. My mantra.
  • Aretak 29 May 2008 21:50:43 9,934 posts
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    The Linux version of Firefox is terrible. Even worse is that a beta version of it comes installed by default with Ubuntu. It crashes more than an amusing comparison.
  • PhoenixWolf 11 Jun 2008 19:04:44 64 posts
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    BartonFink wrote:
    What the hell is going on with firefox lately

    Leave it on for an hour or three and the stupid thing becomes unresponsive and takes an age to load pages.

    Shut it down and it's back to normal.

    This is only since the last update.

    FFS I am considering going back to IE :(
    Firefox has a memory leak bug. It's been reported, but they're rolling out Firefox 3 soon.

    The memory leak isn't severe, but my RAM usage goes from 45% to 60% if Firefox has been running for a long time
  • convercide 29 Jul 2008 22:54:20 5,519 posts
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    It seems the bug hasn't been fixed. Mine is currently using just over 100,000K of memory and earlier was using just over 150,000K.

    If you can read this, you don't need glasses.

  • Red-Moose 28 Jun 2010 08:31:06 5,331 posts
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    Anyone else finding that Firefox 3.6.6 is crashing all over the place - simply dumping out and giving a little error/reporting box. has happened with Youtube, EG, etc., loads of websites, most likely with Flash, although I downloaded the recommended Flash update. No problems with IE.
  • MrDigital 28 Jun 2010 08:34:34 1,657 posts
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    Fortunately not, only been using 3.6.6 for a few hours though.
  • MrTomFTW Moderator 28 Jun 2010 08:35:31 31,283 posts
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    Nope, been running it for a few days and it seems nice and stable.

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  • kentmonkey 28 Jun 2010 08:59:53 18,614 posts
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    Yep. It now seems incapable of opening an acrobat file in anything other than a full window (which has made me have to open all acrobat files as a right click 'open in new tab' rather than just click on them). It's also dumped me out about four times in 24 hours, and I've had to do two restarts. May be a conflict with anti-spyware/anti-virus packages.
  • X201 28 Jun 2010 09:02:11 13,050 posts
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    I'm suffering the same on the Linux version I have.
  • Onny 28 Jun 2010 13:07:20 5,697 posts
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    I love the way that when you want to download an update for flash now, you download the downloader. Thanks, Adobe. No, really.
  • thelzdking 28 Jun 2010 13:15:18 3,389 posts
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    Mine seems fine.
  • Psiloc 28 Jun 2010 16:40:49 745 posts
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    Been having exactly the same, Red Moose. Just applied the latest update though and we'll see if that fixes it.
  • MrDigital 28 Jun 2010 16:44:38 1,657 posts
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    Onny wrote:
    I love the way that when you want to download an update for flash now, you download the downloader. Thanks, Adobe. No, really.
    Dead useful for me, who installs OSes quite a lot. Always have the correct version and don't have to download via a browser.
  • President_Weasel 28 Jun 2010 16:51:20 7,758 posts
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    Onny wrote:
    I love the way that when you want to download an update for flash now, you download the downloader. Thanks, Adobe. No, really.
    Indeed, that was deeply irksome.
  • Spanky 29 Jun 2010 12:19:59 14,408 posts
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    That's some definition of 'everyone' you've got there. Everyone = 14%?

    Plubs

  • phycus 29 Jun 2010 12:23:42 284 posts
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    elpicador wrote:
    Get with the times. Everyone is using Chrome now.
    chrome is a fast browser, though it takes about 80mb for each tab on my machine - very much the memory hog.

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