[WMCoolmon]

Kara: It's actually extremely easy to add any site. Let's say you wanted to search the wikipedia.

1) Find a URL that the search term appears in. For wikipedia.org, you can get one by typing in a search term that nothing exists on...like "mymoney"
2) Bookmark that page in Bookmarks/quick searches
3) Edit that bookmark; replace the search term with %s
4) In the keyword field, type the keyword you want to use to search with it (like "wikpedia" would let you do a search with "wikipedia animals")

You're done.

[Kamikaze]

Originally posted by karajorma
Dictionary.com without first having to load up the site and find their search option.

Really cool tip of the day: In Firefox (don't know about plain Mozilla) you can type "dict foo" in the URL bar and search dictionary.com for foo

[Fineus]

My problem is - I did a comparison and FireFox had a bigger memory footprint on startup than IE did. My computer is generally stable but I'm all for keeping overheads at a low, and IE does and has done the job for me since version 6 came out.

[beatspete]

Originally posted by Kamikaze


Really cool tip of the day: In Firefox (don't know about plain Mozilla) you can type "dict foo" in the URL bar and search dictionary.com for foo

Hmmm. Handy. Now i just need to think of a word i dont know the meaning of....

[karajorma]

Cool
Intelligent
Handsome
Sexy

The list goes on

(Sorry. Just couldn't resist )

[Thorn]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
My problem is - I did a comparison and FireFox had a bigger memory footprint on startup than IE did. My computer is generally stable but I'm all for keeping overheads at a low, and IE does and has done the job for me since version 6 came out.

Actually, IE is larger. You forgot to count Explorer with IE.
Right now Firefox is using about 20 megs. IE is using 18, and Explorer is using 25. And I have 3 tabs open in Firefox.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]I'm now running Firefox on Gentoo (linux) and it's pretty fast and pretty stable. The adblock extension alone is worth converting, you can literally block almost any advert the web can throw at you, makes loading pages faster.

The other program I've come to love in the last few days is Gaim. Tabbed chat client that supports more networks than you can throw a fish at.

Tabs rock.
[/color]

[SadisticSid]

I never use IE except when some program opens it (like MSN checking Hotmail). Opera's slight instability is my only chagrin with using it.

[Thorn]

If you use Trillian to open your MSN email it will use the default browser. Less secuity holes there too.
Reasons not to use MS apps period.

[Fineus]

Originally posted by Thorn


Actually, IE is larger. You forgot to count Explorer with IE.
Right now Firefox is using about 20 megs. IE is using 18, and Explorer is using 25. And I have 3 tabs open in Firefox.

Yes but the last time I checked, Explorer was part of the windows Shell - turn that off an I lose my task bar, start menu etc. Since FireFox doesn't come with its own shell replacement - it's a larger overall memory footprint than Internet Explorer.

Or am I missing something..

[beatspete]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
it's a larger overall memory footprint than Internet Explorer.

Is it really using that much more memory?  I doubt a few extra MB is going to be taxing your system that much?  How much memory do you have?

[Fineus]

Originally posted by beatspete
Is it really using that much more memory?  I doubt a few extra MB is going to be taxing your system that much?  How much memory do you have?

Enough, but I don’t like to use anything that takes up to much space – when something else will do the job I need just fine anyway.

Besides, sometimes I multi-task and if I have several FireFox windows open taking up memory that slows things down. I’m already having problems with PhotoShop, which – for reasons known to itself – is taking up around 80+ MB of memory with even small files loaded. I plan to reinstall that later but it’s not exactly helpful.

[IceFire]

Mmmm memory footprint is about the same.  Two windows open for IE and Firefox gets me 14 on IE and 16 on Firefox.  Not bad considering that part of IE's memory usage is included in Explorer.exe.

I'm all for keeping memory footprints low myself...but this isn't much different.  Kind of a drop in the bucket really.

[PeachE]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
Besides, sometimes I multi-task and if I have several FireFox windows open taking up memory that slows things down. I’m already having problems with PhotoShop, which – for reasons known to itself – is taking up around 80+ MB of memory with even small files loaded. I plan to reinstall that later but it’s not exactly helpful.

yeah, i'm not sure what's up with Photoshop. on a flat 800x600 jpg, mine takes up 44MB. but any type of PSD, it jumps up to 100 or more. i've got max set to 250, and i've seen it hit that twice. these days, i usually lower Photoshops priority. no performance problems at all and i can finally watch a movie while i draw.



what up, IceFire.

[Thorn]

Originally posted by Kalfireth
Besides, sometimes I multi-task and if I have several FireFox windows open taking up memory that slows things down.

This is what tabs are for. Only need one Firefox window open to view multiple pages.

[Fineus]

Fair enough, I still can't get on with it though - maybe in the future it'll be more attractive but not right now.

(On a side note, Photoshop seems to be acting very strangely indeed.. generally takes up about 40MB on startup but if you open a few .PSD files it can sky-rocket to over 200MB, and with that comes massive system slowdown. I've really no idea whats going on - it never used to be like this).

[Arc]

Originally posted by IceFire
Two windows open for IE and Firefox gets me 14 on IE and 16 on Firefox.

Out of interest, what's Firefox's peak usage like? And how well does it release that memory when windows/tabs are closed? I tend to have a large number of IE windows open (15-20) if I'm browsing around, and IE's peak usage can go through 90-100Mb but once it does, it usually stays high until I close the last IE window.

[Sandwich]

I want to continue this discussion, so ka-bump!

Thunder, if you drop IE for either Opera, FireFox, or Mozilla, I will stop calling you Thunder.

If you get your friends and family to convert away from IE, I will call you Kalfireth.

[IceFire]

Originally posted by Arc

Out of interest, what's Firefox's peak usage like? And how well does it release that memory when windows/tabs are closed? I tend to have a large number of IE windows open (15-20) if I'm browsing around, and IE's peak usage can go through 90-100Mb but once it does, it usually stays high until I close the last IE window.

Well with 5 or 6 windows its about 30.

Doesn't release as much as it takes up.  So like IE in that way...probably the same for most browsers.

[MatthewPapa]

I've used FIrefox ever since I had a massive spyware and adware invasion about 2 months ago. I have also shared it with my friends and they say they love it too.