Firefox. Using lots of resources

I have just started to use Mozzilla Firefox. I find the screen is freezing
for up to 30 secs at a time when on broadband. I am not getting the same
problem with IE6. Firefox is slow loading. Is it using up my scarce
resources? (W98, Pentium 11 @ 333mhz, 256K memory, USB 1.1)

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:46:54 -0000, "Terry James"
scribbled some thoughts:


I have just started to use Mozzilla Firefox. I find the screen is freezing
for up to 30 secs at a time when on broadband. I am not getting the same
problem with IE6. Firefox is slow loading. Is it using up my scarce
resources? (W98, Pentium 11 @ 333mhz, 256K memory, USB 1.1)


256KB of RAM ? If so, no wonder!

I also use Firefox and find it to be slow loading, but once
it loads, it beats IE hands tied behind it's back.

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Andrew H. Carter | ------ooo--(_)--ooo------
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I *hope* he meant 256 *MB* RAM! ;-)
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Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
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"Andrew H. Carter" wrote in message
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On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:46:54 -0000, "Terry James"
scribbled some thoughts:


I have just started to use Mozzilla Firefox. I find the screen is freezing
for up to 30 secs at a time when on broadband. I am not getting the same
problem with IE6. Firefox is slow loading. Is it using up my scarce
resources? (W98, Pentium 11 @ 333mhz, 256K memory, USB 1.1)


256KB of RAM ? If so, no wonder!

I also use Firefox and find it to be slow loading, but once
it loads, it beats IE hands tied behind it's back.

--

Sincerely, | NOTE: Best viewed in a fixed pitch font
| (©) (©)
Andrew H. Carter | ------ooo--(_)--ooo------
d(-_-)b | /// \\\

On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 09:10:32 -0500, Andrew H. Carter
scribbled some thoughts:


On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:46:54 -0000, "Terry James"
scribbled some thoughts:


I have just started to use Mozzilla Firefox. I find the screen is freezing
for up to 30 secs at a time when on broadband. I am not getting the same
problem with IE6. Firefox is slow loading. Is it using up my scarce
resources? (W98, Pentium 11 @ 333mhz, 256K memory, USB 1.1)


256KB of RAM ? If so, no wonder!

I also use Firefox and find it to be slow loading, but once
it loads, it beats IE hands tied behind it's back.


BTW,

OS: 98SE
RAM: 380MB
Cyrix 6x86MX (MMX), 250 MHz

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Sincerely, | NOTE: Best viewed in a fixed pitch font
| (©) (©)
Andrew H. Carter | ------ooo--(_)--ooo------
d(-_-)b | /// \\\

Sorry Chaps,

I did meam 256Mbs Ram. I have just upgraded from 196Mb ram and do not feel
like chucking out one whole bank of Dimms, purchased at great expense from
PC World. Many thanks for all your help but I will stick with IE6 until i
can afford a super whiz bang machine. I do like the Pop-Up blocking of
Firefox but find the favourites listing most odd in that iot does not follow
the same format as IE. (a file/subfile menu).

Terry James
"glee" wrote in message
...
I *hope* he meant 256 *MB* RAM! ;-)
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

"Andrew H. Carter" wrote in message
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On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:46:54 -0000, "Terry James"
scribbled some thoughts:


I have just started to use Mozzilla Firefox. I find the screen is
freezing
for up to 30 secs at a time when on broadband. I am not getting the
same
problem with IE6. Firefox is slow loading. Is it using up my scarce
resources? (W98, Pentium 11 @ 333mhz, 256K memory, USB 1.1)


256KB of RAM ? If so, no wonder!

I also use Firefox and find it to be slow loading, but once
it loads, it beats IE hands tied behind it's back.

--

Sincerely, | NOTE: Best viewed in a fixed pitch font
| (©) (©)
Andrew H. Carter | ------ooo--(_)--ooo------
d(-_-)b | /// \\\

"Terry James" wrote in
:

Sorry Chaps,

I did meam 256Mbs Ram. I have just upgraded from 196Mb ram and do not
feel like chucking out one whole bank of Dimms, purchased at great
expense from PC World. Many thanks for all your help but I will stick
with IE6 until i can afford a super whiz bang machine. I do like the
Pop-Up blocking of Firefox but find the favourites listing most odd in
that iot does not follow the same format as IE. (a file/subfile menu).

Terry James

You may wish to look at Avant. It's a shell for IE that gives you lots of
good things like tabbed browsing, popup blocker, flash blocker, ad blocker
and a lot of other goodies. It's free and only 1MB. Definitely worth a look
IMO. www.avantbrowser.com

I've been using it for quite some time and really like it. Works great on my
Win98SE machine.

"glee" wrote in message
...
I *hope* he meant 256 *MB* RAM! ;-)
--
Glen Ventura, MS MVP W95/98 Systems
http://dts-l.org/goodpost.htm

"Andrew H. Carter" wrote in message
...
On Sat, 18 Dec 2004 11:46:54 -0000, "Terry James"
scribbled some thoughts:


I have just started to use Mozzilla Firefox. I find the screen is
freezing
for up to 30 secs at a time when on broadband. I am not getting the
same
problem with IE6. Firefox is slow loading. Is it using up my scarce
resources? (W98, Pentium 11 @ 333mhz, 256K memory, USB 1.1)


256KB of RAM ? If so, no wonder!

I also use Firefox and find it to be slow loading, but once
it loads, it beats IE hands tied behind it's back.

--

Sincerely, | NOTE: Best viewed in a fixed pitch font
| (©) (©)
Andrew H. Carter | ------ooo--(_)--ooo------
d(-_-)b | /// \\\

On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 14:14:26 -0000, "Terry James"
scribbled some thoughts:


Sorry Chaps,

I did meam 256Mbs Ram. I have just upgraded from 196Mb ram and do not feel
like chucking out one whole bank of Dimms, purchased at great expense from
PC World. Many thanks for all your help but I will stick with IE6 until i
can afford a super whiz bang machine. I do like the Pop-Up blocking of
Firefox but find the favourites listing most odd in that iot does not follow
the same format as IE. (a file/subfile menu).

Terry James


That's what the bookmarks manager is for, some extensions
will even let you sort the bookmarks. While in some
respects it is slower than IE, in other respects it is much
faster. For instance in FF you can svae as bookmarks all
the open tabs, then sort them out later. You can even
assign keywords to bookmarks. To do that in IE, you would
need to do some registry tweaking, or create some batch
files.

Nope, as for me amy my cockroaches, waterbugs, palmetto
bugs, black widows, and lizard, we will use Firefox.

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Sincerely, | NOTE: Best viewed in a fixed pitch font
| (©) (©)
Andrew H. Carter | ------ooo--(_)--ooo------
d(-_-)b | /// \\\

"Fuzzy Logic" wrote:

You may wish to look at Avant. It's a shell for IE that gives you lots of
good things like tabbed browsing, popup blocker, flash blocker, ad blocker
and a lot of other goodies. It's free and only 1MB. Definitely worth a look
IMO. www.avantbrowser.com

I've been using it for quite some time and really like it. Works great on my
Win98SE machine.


Yes Avant is great except for one problem for which I stopped using it.
The
font color in the address bar window is hard coded to black, I cannot
change
it. I prefer my woindows color dark, so I can hardly see the URL
entry, very
annoying. Unless there is a way to change the font color which I don't
know.

Oniket

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:



"Fuzzy Logic" wrote:

You may wish to look at Avant. It's a shell for IE that gives you lots
of good things like tabbed browsing, popup blocker, flash blocker, ad
blocker and a lot of other goodies. It's free and only 1MB. Definitely
worth a look IMO. www.avantbrowser.com

I've been using it for quite some time and really like it. Works great
on my Win98SE machine.


Yes Avant is great except for one problem for which I stopped using
it.
The
font color in the address bar window is hard coded to black, I
cannot
change
it. I prefer my woindows color dark, so I can hardly see the URL
entry, very
annoying. Unless there is a way to change the font color which I
don't
know.

Oniket

I'm not aware of a way to change this. It's been reported in the Avant
forums:

http://forum.avantbrowser.com/viewto...ght=font+color

AVANT browser will give you all the speed you need. It is a much smaller
download, utilizes IE's excellent Hummingbird rendering engine, does TABBED
browsing, Mouse Gestures, RSS reader, Flash Animation Filtering, Pop-up AND
Ad blocking. It also can be configured to disallow ActiveX, Java, and
Scripts. You can find it at www.avantbrowser.com

Happy Surfing!