I’m writing this post from my Opera web browser. It’s fast and sleek… everything Firefox use to be for me. It seems with every update and new version Firefox became more memory intensive and slower. Fuck features. All I need is tabbed browsing. Simplicity is king.
I think one of the problems is Gmail and firefox. Whenever I leave a tab open with Gmail long enough the browser will freeze up for a couple minutes and then display a message asking if I want to stop running the script on the Gmail website. Whenever I load up Gmail in firefox the memory usage of firefox shoots up considerably. I really don’t know what the deal is.
I do have a triple monitor setup. Perhaps I should run Gmail with Opera on one monitor seperately.
I had a lot more trouble with FF2 & memory, much less now that I’m using FF3. As for FF3, I prefer it to IE/Netscape and I really haven’t done much with Opera. The one thing I still love about FF3 is that it allows you to save a password after you’ve gotten past the login page. Which means no more accidentally saving the wrong password, which I did a few times.
I’ll look into Opera, though, because I’d love to use less memory. We’ll see if I miss the features or not.