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Story: Firefox loses market share

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Posted by: Anonymous (Monday 15 August 2005, 6:45 PM)

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I have myself started using IE more on my home pc due to the fact that if Firefox is left running for to long it just starts to eat up memory for no reason I can see!! The other day my pc (and thus Firefox) had been running for about 4 days and I noticed it was getting a bit sluggish so I opened Taskmanager, Firefox (with only 3 tabs open) was using over 600 meg of memory!!!! and its not the first time its done it, plus there's some sites which just don't work propery with it.

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Story: Firefox loses market share

  1. This is complete and utter rubbish. Firefox is kil... Anna Rovita
  2. Anna, Why so emotional? I think your reaction... Anonymous
  3. My honest opinion. I tried switching complete... Anonymous
  4. I dont know what in the world could make me g... Yax
  5. A couple of people have mentioned sites... Brendan Dodds
  6. I have myself started using IE more on my home pc... Anonymous
  7. I started using FireFox since it was first av... Anonymous
  8. Once you have tried firefox you will be... Rich Tores
  9. I'm developing a website - nothing... Mitch 74
  10. Netscape 8 has been released over this period. It... Anonymous
  11. A couple of things; 1. Netscape 8 came out 2. Dee... Anonymous
  12. Do not know about others, but I am still using Fir... Sudhakar
  13. There'a a lot to like about Firefox, but there are... Anonymous
  14. big problems with last few updated firefox browser... Dc s
  15. Firefox allows blocking of non-content websites. T... Anonymous
  16. I don't want UK sites on my browsers, IE or F... DH
  17. Not true Anonymous
  18. There's a lot of comment here about folks hav... Anonymous
  19. Blah blah blah...all this techy bs....wh... Anonymous
  20. Cannot believe it, when we are getting a barrage o... Anonymous
  21. There's a lot to like about Firefox - tabbed... Anonymous
  22. Something smells here. Memory problems with Firef... irene B
  23. Kind of amused at people who consider "going... herman
  24. Hey, comments with NO log in... something smells h... Pedro Rosa
  25. Students are away for the summer and are often for... Anonymous
  26. So far I've been quite capable of finding alternat... Arthur B.
  27. Someone recently said Firefox behaves "strangely".... No More IE!!!
  28. As long as there are people who code their web pag... Anonymous
  29. don't forget that Opera identifies itself as IE6 b... Anonymous
  30. I use ff almost 100%...every once in a while somet... Anonymous
  31. I've been using FF since the beta of 0.9. Ye... John Newton

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