Re: I tried....

[Tom Liotta <qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob Crothers wrote:
> You should give Chrome a try.  One neat feature that I really like is you
> can drag a tab into a new window.  Especialy nice with dual monitors.  The
> other think I like about Chrome is that it is very clean.  Pretty much
> a minimalist approach to browsing.  Kind of like an iPod Shuffle vs an
> iTouch.

Bob:

Like pretty much everyone else, I use FF essentially exclusively, 
with the rare exception of IE-only pages/sites. I can't recall the 
last crash of FF, though it has crashed from time to time -- once 
every 4-6 months? Of course, I update to latest releases often and 
expect crashes when trying "latest & greatest".

BTW, FF allows drag/drop of tabs onto other windows. I'd never tried 
it until seeing your comment about Chrome, so thought I'd give it a 
try. I'm running W2K Pro for a little while longer.

> The two main sites I use are gmail and then the designer for my eCommerce
> site (Still tweaking, but it is up and ready and capable of taking orders:
> www.bjsdiscountsoftware.com ).  Gmail does crash it daily.  But the designer
> crashes it hourly (or more).  MSIE or Chrome dont ever crash it.  Also seems
> to be associated with the number of open windows and tabs.

Gmail has never caused a problem for me in FF. Obviously, some 
eCommerce site may cause trouble for any browser -- it will always 
depend on site coding. A 'designer' would seem even more likely to 
cause trouble unless it was very thoroughly tested against multiple 
browsers.

Regardless, the _very first_ thing I'd dump would be _any_ Yahoo 
add-ons or extensions (or applications or anything else from Yahoo). 
Not far behind in second place would be the Google cra... uh... 
stuff. I made the mistake of not noticing a Google add-on being 
installed once. Never again. Just "IMO". I like Google as a web 
search site, but not embedded in any browser. IIRC, it was a java 
update that slipped it past my notice.

I should have kept a journal of what it took to get all traces (that 
I could find) of that Google mess out of the PC that was unfortunate 
enough to have it inflicted upon it. Would've made a decent article.

Tom Liotta