Bouncing Browsers
I'm annoyed that neither Safari nor FireFox seem to be comfortable enough to use for long on my PowerBook.
Safari seems zippy and easy on my CPU, but crashes at inopportune moments with lots of tabs open. And since the W is next to the Q and there's no quit-confirmation in Safari, I've got yet another way to lose large groups of open tabs. And then there's all the stuff I turned off and deleted to prevent beachballs.
FireFox, on the other hand, seems relatively stable and has many shiny features. Stable, that is, except when the odd Flash movie appears and seizes the whole thing up and I'm forced to euthanize it. That, and, it seems to "leak" CPU usage--no matter how many windows and tabs I've closed, after a few hours usage, FireFox eventually grows to consume all available CPU until I quit and restart.
Eventually, one or another annoyance with whichever of these two browsers I'm using drives me to start using the other. I've got about a 14-20 day cycle going on between them.
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Firefox is the best browser for me, yet it has many bugs and deficiencies.
For several months, it hated to go to my Gmail inbox, and would almost alwasys crash. Firefox, until just a few weeks ago, was crashing every 10 to 30 minutes.
About a week ago, my "No Script" javascript permit/forbid bar simply vanished, leaving all scripts forbidden by default. I searched all over my computer for the cause of this. I checked my extensions, and posted a topic thread at Mozillazine forum, about it. My forum post was ignored.
Without the ability to permit scripts at trusted sites, I was screwed. Many things were impossible to accomplish, right? What a nightmare.
I ended up uninstalling then reinstalling Firefox, without the No Script extension.
As far as I'm concerned, the worst part of the internet is the web browser. They all suck. During my problems with Firefox No Script, I tried to lauch Opera, Avant, and IE. They could not find any servers, as though my broadband connection was not working. Netscape worked, but it is so buggy, it's worthless. My blog, for example, was actually flashing and endlessly reloading the main page. Weird.
So I play bouncing browsers quite often.
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