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Old 02-04-2008, 08:45 AM  
Paco, of Large Cash.
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Firefox! Even though there is a known memory leak issue with the browser. Also, see the standard diagnostic page.
IE simply does not offer the same functionality that Firefox does, as well the images looks like shit in IE!


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Originally Posted by GoNe View Post
I use and love FireFox but it's such a memory eater. I have a Intel Core 2 2,4GHz Quad with 3GB DDR2 PC6400 800Mhz which is a pretty powerful computer but FireFox still manages to slow down the entire computer sometimes by eating up all the memory.

The browser will of course chew up more memory of you have live pages running in the background. By live I mean pages with that damn Flash animation junk! If you simply must have the pages loaded on a tab, hit 'ESC', so to stop the connection.
Also, how many extensions are you running, and what is the "update frequency" of the extensions? (is Gmail Notifier checking every minute etc et cetera) Increasing the connection time[slash]check mail interval will help lower load.
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