It's not that I work for them, it is that their software keeps me working! I'm a systems administrator and have a job because of the Windows 95's revolution. Seriously, think where the world would be today if Windows 95 had never been released... Our world and economy owe Bill Gates and company a lot more then they know or will ever admit to. I support 35 servers running Windows and 300+ users running Windows XP, I wouldn't have a career without them. Microsoft Windows and their other software packages have kept me working for the past 8 years and will certainly keep me working for years to come, so I am all over Bill's jock for good reason ;-)
Sam, RC, Are ya'll running xp? Because for the longest time FF had a severe memory leak on some xp machines. It was like that for me, after leaving FF minimized in taskbar for awhile. Not all xp's had the problem, just some. And from everything I read they couldn't figure out why. But this has been a while back. The last ver. I tried was a 1.0, and it didn't seem to have the problem anymore, although I tried a specialized build from one of the off-sites. Didn't use it that much though. Just tried it out of curiosity to see if they had that, and another problem fixed(which wasn't). So I don't know if it might be that same problem, or a different one that you two are experiencing. To me Opera is a FAR superior browser to FF anyways. I use an Opera/k-meleon combo myself. K-meleon is like a bare-bones version of FF(same gecko engine) without a lot of the problems. And if you want to tinker under the hood a bit you can make it do 90% of what FF does. I won't use IE unless I absolutely have to.
Yeah, I'm running XP. I think I may have had a few memory leak issues prior to 1.5, but nothing that happened that often; with 1.5, the memory leaks just became too much of an issue. I tried some different things (changing/removing extensions, and even tried a memory leak "fix"), but that didn't seem to help much. I probably could have found something that would have helped, but I also wanted to try out Opera and compare it to FF, so I started using Opera. As I said, the last update to FF seemed to help some, but the problem doesn't seemed to be totally fixed; so for the time being, I’m kind of split between the two, although I’ve grown accustomed to the way that Opera does some things.
yeah XP - for whatever reason, everything was fine up until the last two versions of FF, then all hell broke loose. Have never even heard of Opera, will give it a shot - hate using IE.
So I installed it just now, and I can't get a single page to come up. It acts like I'm not connected to the Internet. Meanwhile, Firefox is still working like a charm. Oh and I can't uninstall it and when I try to re-install IE 6 it tells me I can't because I have a newer version installed. Yay Microidiots!
Did Vengeance create FireFox? Or work for Mozilla? Or just a really really really big fan. I mean, I like it a lot and recommend to people who are having troubles with Internet Explorer - but i don't wear a FireFox shirt or paint the logo on my truck.
