[ShadowGorrath]

Opera never had this error. The only time I lost everything was when I used the chdsk ( or whatever it's called ) utility.

[colecampbell666]

Are you using FF3?

[Admiral_Stones]

Safari 3 is actually mind-blazingly fast (on a mac, that is)

Your computer specs, internet connection, and whats running in the background have more to do with browser loading speed than OS.

My preference would be: IE7 w/Pro, Firefox, Opera, Safari. Safari doesn't seem to load the pages the same.. something always seems off, and it chokes the most with graphic and flash intensive pages.

My iMac is a like ~2 year old 1.9 GHz (single core, mind you) pile o' slowness (by today) with a 128 MB GFX card. Usually DLing multiple torrents and files on two apps simultaneously.

[CP5670]

Are you using FF3?

No, I'm on 2. Is there any fix in 3 that might be relevant to this?

[colecampbell666]

Well if it was supposedly fixed in 2 it's probably fixed in 3. And besides that, 3 is a lot cooler.

[CP5670]

Not really. If they think it's been fixed already, that makes it very likely that nothing has changed in 3.

[colecampbell666]

Are you using logic against me?

I'd get FF3 anyways, it has a lot of other improvements. And who knows...

[jr2]

When I close down the program, there is a (very small) chance that upon starting it again, everything related to my profile is gone and has reverted to the defaults. This includes bookmarks, browser settings and even the last used size of the Firefox window. It's highly random and I can't think of any reason why it might be happening. It happens around once every two or three months. The problem seems to be that it thinks you've switched to a different Windows user when you actually haven't, which makes it reset everything.

I have seen complaints about it on other forums, although not recently. It was once on their bug database and they supposedly fixed it with version 2.0, but I've still gotten it several times since then. The only reliable workaround is to periodically backup everything in Firefox's profile directory (in Documents and Settings) and dump that back over the broken files when the bug occurs.

I got the same thing in Thunderbird a while ago. I had no profile backup of that program (since it had never happened before), so I had to set up all my email accounts over again, and it took some effort to get it to detect all my existing emails again.

I wonder if that could be related to a bug that a friend of mine gets... her FF Portable periodically dumps all of her extensions.. they are still listed, but don't work correctly.  I find it very odd, as I've used FF Portable for around a year or two, and haven't had that happen.  I think I have had normal FF dump my profile once, but I can't say for sure.  Prolly M$ agents in black suits with special EMI FF disturbance devices. 

Are you using logic against me?

I'd get FF3 anyways, it has a lot of other improvements. And who knows...

  I always do that.  If there's a new version out, it prolly fixes some stuff.  Ofc, prolly other stuff is broken, but w/e, that's life.

[karajorma]

I use FF cause I find it the better browser due to extensions.

Even if I didn't I wouldn't use Opera. The person who first introduced me to it kept pronouncing it as Oprah and unfortunately it's kinda got stuck in my head that way. Using FF leave me less chance to embarrassing myself in front of other techies.

[achtung]

I use FF cause I find it the better browser due to extensions.

Even if I didn't I wouldn't use Opera. The person who first introduced me to it kept pronouncing it as Oprah and unfortunately it's kinda got stuck in my head that way. Using FF leave me less chance to embarrassing myself in front of other techies.

Couldn't you just blame that on a thick accent?

[colecampbell666]

I use FF cause I find it the better browser due to extensions.

QFT.

[ShadowGorrath]

Extensions like what ?

[haloboy100]

AdBlockPlus?

[colecampbell666]

StumbleUpon
Clipmarks
Download Statusbar
Gmail Notifier
Better Gmail
IE Tab (view sites as IE would)
...

[haloboy100]

[Mars]

Konqueror...

Or Firefox, if I'm using Windows (most of the time lately)

[haloboy100]

Konqueror...

How is the KDE project going, anyway? I've heard a lot about it.

[colecampbell666]

4.0 should soon be released for Windows.

Although personally, I like GNOME better. KDE doesn't have the right feel. It's too cartoony.

[Mars]

Cartoony?

I'm more concerned with the actual UI, the software included and underlying toolkit (Qt 3 and 4 and GTK+ respectively) than the graphics they ship with by default, that's what GTK-look and KDE-look are for. Most distributions change the default appearances anyway.

GNOMEs UI seems over simplified, and it's relatively hard to change the finer aspects of it, usually it involves heavy use of a text editor. Kcontrol for KDE 3 makes it pretty easy to change such settings

Amarok and Konqueror, all by themselves would be enough for me to stick with KDE. GNOME runs both of them very slowly because it uses GTK+, not Qt, so the libraries involved aren't preloaded. There was recently a clone of Amarok for GTK+ called exaile, but I still prefer Amarok.

Anyway KDE 4.0 is basically a giant beta, what you should be looking for is KDE 4.1, hopefully most of the bugs will be hammered out by then.

[Jeff Vader]

StumbleUpon
Clipmarks
Download Statusbar
Gmail Notifier
Better Gmail
IE Tab (view sites as IE would)
...

Forecastfox Enhanced. I've pimped the radar so that it shows a forecast map of Finland, downloaded from a TV network's site, updated every two hours. Handy.