We recently updated our hardware, so I put W2K SP4 on it. The offspring had been whinging that we "only" had Opera 8.5 and IE6SP1 on the old box, so I put FF 3.0.1 for them, and Opera 9.51 for me. Oh, and kept the IE6SP1. Guess what they migrated to?

Gotta love Opera!

BTW, a lot of folks diss IE. I keep remembering: download the Power Toys, Web Development and Web Accessories, then you could -- long, long before anybody else could -- select any text and highlight it (Opera has a couple of User-JS tweaks for this); select any text and view the HTML; toggle images off/on; build custom address-bar searches (currently NOT possible in FF); text zooming was always standard without the tweaks; zoom images separately from the page text. Have I forgotten anything? Security: just up the ante as far as you like, in minute detail, even to the point of disabling ActiveX... and classify any page according to its needed security treatment. Oh yes: In Opera I have 3 bars taking up the top of my real estate. In IE I have only 2 bars. The only thing IE6 doesn't have is tabbed browsing.

Gordon.

I am trying IE8 beta 2 atm. Linking it, but its a memory eater. In a machine with 2gb or more ram though, its fine

(im not joking about this - 5 tabs open eats about 120mb)

Sounds like its way over bloated J...

Its way more stable though

Each tab is a new thread process so that if one crashes / a script starts eating all the cpu time and memory it wont affect the other tabs.

Firefox is better than IE, do doubt, but it is not flawless by any means. It still has memory management issues. The person who only has limited RAM needs to be careful having too many tabs open. Check out the Task Manager Processe Tab (Ctrl-Alt-Del > Processes) and you may shocked by how much memory Firefox is using.

I've been experimenting with Chrome. Still not quite ready for prime time, but it is super fast on certain sites. I mean blazing fast. It lacks the add-ons, but eventually it will compete strongly with Firefox.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a big Firefox fan and I think it's great that Catweaszel has written this manual and is distributing for free (in the true tradition of open source), but you should be aware that as good it is, like any software, it ain't perfect.

Ron Miller
DaniWeb TechTreasures by Ron Miller Blog
http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/blog313540.html

Firefox is the good browser.

James

I have only used FF1.5 and yes it seems to be just as good as my favourite browser (MyIE2)

I do agree, but whilst have been an FF user since around version 0.7, am ready to throw it to the wind as memory leakage is still ludicrous. Now I know am a tab & window fiend, but 250,000K PLUS (and that's with a bunch of tweaks in the config, and minimal add-ons)is beyond a joke, and have just about had a gut-full. Problem is, look at the alternatives.

Spotted your post and went hunting. MyIE2 is now Maxthon2 by the way (although I do remember IE2, but never really took much notice as still tapped into IE's core engine, so kinda defeated the purpose).

Now I don't know what IE2 was like, but Maxthon2 is a bigger memory b1tch than FF 3.5!! 70,000+K for TWO TABS?? 123,000K when streaming video on a third tab!!

Sorry, but no deal I'm afraid. Have been a little interested in Chrome, but given Google's track-record with abusing user privacy, have steered clear.

Yup

I dont like the new versions though,they suck compared to MyIE2!! (Alot of features were taken out in the new versions (Now people are complaining to them to put them back))

Ah well... That does make sense Jbennet for the browser to treat EACH TAB AS A NEW THREAD!! (I think MyIE2 treats them all under one thread (Although once in awhile if it crashes,IT ONLY TAKES THE CURRECT TAB IM ON (Happend a few times)))