On 6/11/2013 10:25 AM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> I have banished Firefox from my computers. It is no longer there. Gone.
>> History. Never to return. Hate it. Hate it. Hate it! Use Safari or Chrome
>> now. Mostly Safari.
> I am also using Safari. Generally speaking, it does a pretty good job
> and tends to load pages a little faster than most. It kinda does the
> Netscape thing. However, I've encountered issues with it in filling
> out fields. That's been true with both the iPad version and the PC
> version. Actually, I should say that I WAS using Safari until Google
> Chrome has become my browser home for all my devices.
It all seems to be a crap shoot. FF continues to work well for me. While one
son was on a cruise, he left his netbook
here, as he was in danger of destroying it in frustration at how slow it ran
and how often it became unresponsive.
There were several things to clean up. The biggest problem was one GB of RAM
and a whole raft of start-up programs that
filled memory before he started anything himself. With much of that underbrush
cleared away, the next killer was Chrome.
It was using about 500 MB of memory as soon as it started up! Add that to
needed background apps and shared video memory
- and he was in paging mode on a slow netbook HD - AKA death of action.
I tried FF. It had a small footprint and runs fine. With the battery life at
any cost poser management settings
adjusted, he had a working computer again. He told me later that he tried
Chrome again, and it didn't eat memory. Who
knows? I do know that there are lots of posts on the net about Chrome memory
hogging. Does that fact that it has a
built-in memory use function say anything about it? ;-)
> ...
>
> Don't get me started on iOS updates. (Thank Goodness my phone is
> Android instead of the half braindead iOS).
I've got an iPhone and an Android tablet. I think Apple has iOS together and
more mature than at least ICS. I've as yet
had no problems with iOS updates on phone or pad.
I'm not particularly unhappy with Android OS, but for lack of certain apps and
real file management. Other than being
more open, though, it's not as tight and slick as iOS. It does appear that iOS7
will address most of the interface
issues I have with the iPhone vs. iPad. If they improve file sharing between
apps, I'll be a really happy camper, but
that may be too much to ask?
I still haven't found an Android file manager that allows easy multiple
selection ala Windoze Explorer. That's just
dumb! It's the one thing that will keep me from using it as more than a toy. At
least Apple is up front about not
allowing mass storage device management, rather than dangling the carrot - and
then snatching it away.
Multi Subject Moose
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