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Technical Help & Discussion => General Tech Discussion, News & Q&A => Topic started by: Clive on July 03, 2010, 10:26
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Microsoft's Internet Explorer increased its market share in June 2010 for the first time in a year, according to statistics.
LINK (http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/top-stories/475403/internet-explorer-decline-reversed)
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:eeek:
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WTF.
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This all came about because of the leakage in firefox
I had the leakage bad and it made firefox almost unusable for me so I switched to chrome
Most uninformed users would just switch back to IE
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are you talking about memory leakage? I heard issues back in 2006, but I thought they'd fixed that.
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Its still there if you leave firefox open for an hour or so it will be consuming 80% prossor and most of your memory
I havent tried the last two updates but dont think they have fixed it
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It would be very unwise to trust either FF or MSIE before first girding your loins with extra defences. Both browsers are very capable and, once you're suitably armoured, of equal merit in IMHO.
I personally feel that FF's shortcomings in both functionality and security capability are being overlooked because it scores with it's 'underdog' appeal and what worries me is, amateur errors still being made even after they've captured public imagination enough to propel them to their current market share position. I say it's time for FF to start 'walking the walk' now that they've won the hype war.
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I have the new firefox beta 3.6.7 on my computer now it seems faster and smoother
I havent used it enough to find out if the leak has been fixed yet
The changelog says
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6.7build1/releasenotes/
Firefox 3.6.7 fixes the following issues found in previous versions of Firefox 3.6:
* Fixed several security issues.
* Fixed several stability issues.
And bug fix
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=ALL%20status1.9.2%3A.7-fixed
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Yes, I agree Firefox has become sluggish but then again we are asking lots of our webrowser now. The answer probably is Chrome (Chromium in my case, linux etc) - or architecture like it. We all love tabs, the problem is Firefox has them all in one job, now Chrome is smart and each tab is actually a separate thread running on your machine and thus is much faster. For Mozilla todo this will involve a serious rewrite. We all have multi-cores these days and so this nicely distributes the load.
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I cant find the article right now but I did read firefox is expected to follow in the footsteps of chrome in firefox 4
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yeah, I've heard similar - still its gonna take them a while to catch up you would have thought. I have to say I wasn't impressed with chrome until recently... it absolutely excels at streaming video, still my main browser will stay as firefox for now.
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I use chrome as my default browser and usually use the beta version
Havent had any big problems with it so far
Speed,accuracy and safety seem to be top of the line
Another Ive been using is Comodo Dragon its based on chrome
http://www.comodo.com/home/browsers-toolbars/browser.php
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I'd not heard of that - interesting that people are developing platforms on top of it.
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I guess it's similar to what Avant is to IE. I suppose it could also be argued that non-mainstream browsers are less likely to be targeted.
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I've just downloaded Comodo Dragon and it certainly handles video much faster than FF. It's a pity there doesn't seem to be an easy way to access more than eight bookmarks, though.
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I've also just tried it, and it crashed! :dunno:
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I guess it's similar to what Avant is to IE. I suppose it could also be argued that non-mainstream browsers are less likely to be targeted.
Shhhhhhhh....
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;)
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:laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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I've just downloaded Comodo Dragon and it certainly handles video much faster than FF. It's a pity there doesn't seem to be an easy way to access more than eight bookmarks, though.
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I have over 50 there
I just drag and drom from the search bar and they expand as I add them
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Thanks Dave - I'm still getting used to the browser but I like it a lot :) . I wish it had the Firefox spell check add-on, though. I know there are a couple of Chrome checkers available, but they're not as good as the FF checkers.
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the Dragon and chrome still have some catching up to do in some areas and extensions is one of them
But in other areas they are much better than most browsers
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They are probably the same now, as the other browsers were, before becoming bloated with all the extensions. ;)
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I tend to avoid the extension, don't see the need / point in them. The only things I need are the media plugins, e.g. flash.
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Chrome doesnt use extensions the same as firefox they open as a separate program
If you open Task manager you can see them and control the ones that are resource intensive
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being a linux person, I don't use the task manager, but you can easily profile what your system is doing using the command top - indeed Chromium forks all the processes it runs, so they run separately - on linux it also nicely sets their priority for you, quite low too.