Franc Zabkar wrote in
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SNIP

Opera 9.5x has had severe bugs involving system resources.
I don't know about Firefox, though.

http://groups.google.com/group/opera...sg/ea2c64185e3
837ea?dmode=source
http://groups.google.com/group/opera...sg/ac3c0109a6d
e43de?dmode=source

I'm still using Opera 9.27 without too many problems,
although I have disabled SWF.

Nice to hear from you again, Franc, I hope you've been well.

Yes, I have noticed that even when I was using 7.23 it caused a
lot of RAM loss. The same thing seems to happen now, I am using
ver. 8.01.

I thought about using 9.* but now I am actually thinking about
going back to 7.23.

I still think Opera is the best-designed browser from the user's
customizing/flexibility (does ANY other browser have a zoom
function? IE doesn't count, just in case IT does! :-) viewpoint
but it does seem to suffer from some bad coding. The SFW plugins
have always crashed it, and other things too. It does have the
nice "come back to where you were" restart feature (but it
usually just immediately crashes again!) and it does eat a lot
of resources.

I really dislike some of the FFox "features" (or lack of them)
but OTOH, Opera 8.01 doesn't have "save page with images" as
7.23 did! In fact I tried 7.54 as well and IT was VERY different
from 7.23 as well. I find it really peculiar that they change
the appearance and options and functionality so much... Some day
I might try 5.12... When it's a slow day... But next time I do
an Acronis restore, I think I'll reinstall 7.23. As much as I
/really/ hate having THREE browsers when ONE should be enough,
FFox does swf/flv very nicely. But its structural/directory
design is MOST unpleasant.

And the fact you have to use THE MOUSE to go back or forward is
just ///unbelievable///.

Regards.