Comments on: Firefox 2 versus Internet Explorer versus WordPress

By: william duff

william duff — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:51:22 +0000

now the war are between firefox and chrome i guess

By: David Kosy

David Kosy — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 14:56:34 +0000

I support a CRM application called SugarCRM which uses quite a bit of Ajax. I would perhaps being from the “messy desk” school open more tabs but the performance declines after about 30 tabs (brings firefox up to around 500 MB ) Plus I suspect that fasterfox, firebug, session manager etc. have some serious memory leaks.

I may investigate IE8 as I heard this may run with a lower memory usage profile.

Note here: I only run a gig of ram and need to upgrade.

Note two: I generally do us Synergy across more than one machine.. Very useful.. Get it if you have more than one box to run off of.

Thanks;
David Kosy

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By: Lorelle VanFossen

Lorelle VanFossen — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:39:43 +0000

@ iaskedalice09: I have such a list: Awesome Lists of Firefox Must-Have Extensions Lists. See also: Web Browser Guide for Bloggers Power Blogging: Web Browser Blogging Tips Firefox Bookmarks Help Bloggers Blog Akismet Auntie Spam Firefox-Greasemonkey Page Viewing Script Blogging With Split Browser Firefox Extension

By: iaskedalice09

iaskedalice09 — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 21:16:24 +0000

I usually have 40-100 tabs open. I’m a geek in that sense. I am also visually impaired so a master at keyboard shortcut memorisation (Seriously, keyboard shortcuts rule). I haven’t found the CTRL + pageup-page down one before though I’ll definitely use it in lieu of the tab window.

I was bummed about the appearance of tabs in Fx 2.0 but then installed Winestripe, Tab Mix Plus and am going to install Tab Preview. Lorelle, you should definitely keep up a list of Must-Have Fx Extensions for bloggers as you are really an expert – my productivity has gone through the roof from reading your blog and using Firefox, and I don’t use WP fulltime anymore! You are a goddess!

By: Sam

Sam — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 03:00:24 +0000

Firefox all the way! I have dailup so with the Adblock add-on some website load 75% faster than IE7 which I also have (I don’t know why.)

By: T-Steel

T-Steel — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 21:33:44 +0000

HMMM! I think I may have found the reason why I get lots of comments complaining about one my OVER AJAXED sites.

By: slayer

slayer — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:00:22 +0000

All hail OPERA!

By: BXT

BXT — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:29:30 +0000

You might have problems with turning down your Computer. But have you ever mentioned the “Hibernate”-Function? It saves all your RAM to your Harddisk and loads it back again, when starting th Computer.

And you schould think abaout a hyperlink-based todo-list. I don’t think you are watching all Tabs at once, so you could just save links to pages, you want to read.

And to watch pages, you can use a RSS-reader that alerts when getting new information.

By: ivan ng

ivan ng — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 15:11:30 +0000

And while you are all right about PHP, I have found consistently that the fewer PHP codes and calls on the database on my full version WordPress blogs, the faster it loads. Poor coding, even in PHP, increases the load time, even if it doesn’t directly impact RAM. Browsers which can handle these instructions faster make for much “funner” browsing.

Your last sentence does not make sense. We just established that PHP does not run on the browser.