Nathan wrote;
> Brian, I am not sure what computer you have, but you seem to run into
> weird problems. On my Macs, neither Safari nor Firefox behaves in the
> manner you describe, and on the Windows computer at work Firefox runs
> painlessly. Why don't you just get that and be done with it?
>
> Cheers,
> Nathan
Nathan, I do appreciate what you wrote above. However, my machine is
without doubt older than any you will have at work - or at home, for that
matter. And has limitations accordingly.
The behaviours of Firefox that irritate me a lot include.
Increasingly, very slow start.
Will often stall for several minutes while it writes data. It seems to be VERY
CPU intensive, and increasingly so with age.
>From the way it behaves, I believe it is written to predict my preferences for
saving files, images etc, and these predictions (which seem to increase over
time) are so wrong much of the time and frustrate my doing what I want.
I have a suspicion that it communicates outside my computer (for purposes I
have not requested) - but no proof.
The ONLY advantage I see from using it, is that it copes with complex page
code, such as in facebook, very well.
But it will stall for several minutes when I open my facebook page.
Since I installed Firefox, my computer seems to spend a LOT more time on
disk activity when I would expect it to be pretty-much idle.
Ken wrote that at least one company he worked for, had banned it.
Perhaps you could share some insight, Ken?
If I can find a better browser, I will use it.
Brian Swale
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