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Windows Forum / Windows 98 / Software / February 2005Firefox. Using lots of resources
I have just started to use Mozzilla Firefox. I find the screen is freezing for up to 30 secs at a time when on broadband. I am not getting the same problem with IE6. Firefox is slow loading. Is it using up my scarce resources? (W98, Pentium 11 @ 333mhz, 256K memory, USB 1.1) >I have just started to use Mozzilla Firefox. I find the screen is freezing >for up to 30 secs at a time when on broadband. I am not getting the same >problem with IE6. Firefox is slow loading. Is it using up my scarce >resources? (W98, Pentium 11 @ 333mhz, 256K memory, USB 1.1) 256KB of RAM ? If so, no wonder! I also use Firefox and find it to be slow loading, but once it loads, it beats IE hands tied behind it's back.  SignatureSincerely, | NOTE: Best viewed in a fixed pitch font | (©) (©) Andrew H. Carter | ------ooo--(_)--ooo------ d(-_-)b | /// \\\ I *hope* he meant 256 *MB* RAM! ;-) SignatureGlen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm > >I have just started to use Mozzilla Firefox. I find the screen is freezing > >for up to 30 secs at a time when on broadband. I am not getting the same [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > I also use Firefox and find it to be slow loading, but once > it loads, it beats IE hands tied behind it's back. Sorry Chaps, I did meam 256Mbs Ram. I have just upgraded from 196Mb ram and do not feel like chucking out one whole bank of Dimms, purchased at great expense from PC World. Many thanks for all your help but I will stick with IE6 until i can afford a super whiz bang machine. I do like the Pop-Up blocking of Firefox but find the favourites listing most odd in that iot does not follow the same format as IE. (a file/subfile menu). Terry James > I *hope* he meant 256 *MB* RAM! ;-) > > [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > I also use Firefox and find it to be slow loading, but once > > it loads, it beats IE hands tied behind it's back. > Sorry Chaps, > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > > Terry James You may wish to look at Avant. It's a shell for IE that gives you lots of good things like tabbed browsing, popup blocker, flash blocker, ad blocker and a lot of other goodies. It's free and only 1MB. Definitely worth a look IMO. <www.avantbrowser.com> I've been using it for quite some time and really like it. Works great on my Win98SE machine. >> I *hope* he meant 256 *MB* RAM! ;-) >> > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >> > I also use Firefox and find it to be slow loading, but once >> > it loads, it beats IE hands tied behind it's back. > You may wish to look at Avant. It's a shell for IE that gives you lots of > good things like tabbed browsing, popup blocker, flash blocker, ad blocker [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > I've been using it for quite some time and really like it. Works great on my > Win98SE machine. Yes Avant is great except for one problem for which I stopped using it. The font color in the address bar window is hard coded to black, I cannot change it. I prefer my woindows color dark, so I can hardly see the URL entry, very annoying. Unless there is a way to change the font color which I don't know. Oniket >> You may wish to look at Avant. It's a shell for IE that gives you lots >> of good things like tabbed browsing, popup blocker, flash blocker, ad [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > > Oniket I'm not aware of a way to change this. It's been reported in the Avant forums: http://forum.avantbrowser.com/viewtopic.php?t=3435&highlight=font+color >Sorry Chaps, > [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > >Terry James That's what the bookmarks manager is for, some extensions will even let you sort the bookmarks. While in some respects it is slower than IE, in other respects it is much faster. For instance in FF you can svae as bookmarks all the open tabs, then sort them out later. You can even assign keywords to bookmarks. To do that in IE, you would need to do some registry tweaking, or create some batch files. Nope, as for me amy my cockroaches, waterbugs, palmetto bugs, black widows, and lizard, we will use Firefox. SignatureSincerely, | NOTE: Best viewed in a fixed pitch font | (©) (©) Andrew H. Carter | ------ooo--(_)--ooo------ d(-_-)b | /// \\\ >>I have just started to use Mozzilla Firefox. I find the screen is freezing >>for up to 30 secs at a time when on broadband. I am not getting the same [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >I also use Firefox and find it to be slow loading, but once >it loads, it beats IE hands tied behind it's back. BTW, OS: 98SE RAM: 380MB Cyrix 6x86MX (MMX), 250 MHz SignatureSincerely, | NOTE: Best viewed in a fixed pitch font | (©) (©) Andrew H. Carter | ------ooo--(_)--ooo------ d(-_-)b | /// \\\ AVANT browser will give you all the speed you need. It is a much smaller download, utilizes IE's excellent Hummingbird rendering engine, does TABBED browsing, Mouse Gestures, RSS reader, Flash Animation Filtering, Pop-up AND Ad blocking. It also can be configured to disallow ActiveX, Java, and Scripts. You can find it at www.avantbrowser.com Happy Surfing! > AVANT browser will give you all the speed you need. It is a much > smaller download, utilizes IE's excellent Hummingbird rendering engine, [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Happy Surfing! I've been using this for quite a while and think it's great. It's certainly worth a look. |
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