<p>And you like having a million windows open? Why not just alt tab to the window you already have open whenever you want your browser?</p>
<p>Extensions and themes are two of the main reasons I like firefox. Extensions let me make firefox do random things I need, and themes let me make firefox pretty and minimalist. Also, once I find an extension that I like, I can use it in either Gentoo or Windows, which makes Windows a little more tolerable when I have to be there.</p>
<p>IE7 is heading in the direction of Firefox with tabbed browsing and easier tracks cleanup. This improves IE but also endorses Firefox’s features. The trouble FF might have is that MS does learn and improve IE (although not as quickly as many would like). I remember when IE was laughable compared to Netscape but you don’t hear much about NS anymore.</p>
<p>Once you get a serious virus, changing browsers may not help. I had a virus that kept opening new ad windows for IE even when I tried to use another browser. I tried Adaware, Microsoft beta, Trend Micro, Norton’s, Spybot, Etrust, ZoneAlarm, and a slew of other anti-virus programs and firewalls. None of them worked. I waited for a couple of months hoping some new anti-virus definition would solve the problem. Finally, I gave up and reformatted the hard drive. Now I do the automatic windows xp updates and have not had a problem in over a year. Never let the OS get out of date.</p>
<p>whats the difference between having a million windows open and having a million tabs open? I just check my email alot, and its easier to open a new window and hit the email button on my google toolbar than to find the open gmail window. Then, I end up with like 20 gmails open before i know it and IE is using up 800MB of my RAM (not a memory leak necessarily, each instance of gmail uses like 40 megs of ram).</p>
<p>Does firefox have pre-caching? If you are on a page with a bunch of links, will it start downloading what it thinks may be your next destination?</p>
<p>Firus, check out poptray if you open IE for email frequently - <a href=“http://www.poptray.org/[/url]”>http://www.poptray.org/</a>. It can be set up to poll your gmail account [I have mine polling every 3 minutes] and give you notification if you have new messages. Unlike outlook, it’s not really an email client…just a notifier. Pretty easy on the ram too, it’s typically around 3-6MB.</p>
<p>As for precaching - Fasterfox will do it for you, BUT it has been known to be terrible with memory management.</p>
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<p>When you have a million tabs open you’re just one alt F4 away from exiting them all, and you can look at one window to find what you want. Of course, I don’t like many windows open. I generally have a firefox window, a gaim window, a terminal, and nothing else open except when I specifically need it. That keeps me from spending all day alt tabbing just to find webmail.</p>
<p>OK, I got home and tried the suggestion re: enabling cookies. Turns out I already had enabled cookies, with no exceptions.</p>
<p>Now what the heck is keeping me from opening one particular site, that I could always open before? I just don’t get it. And the comcast.net people were extemely unfriendly and zero help. I just don’t know what to do.</p>
<p>Solved! This is what happened: Firefox released a new version this week, and I downloaded it. The cookies weren’t the problem. The issue was something to do with javascript. </p>
<p>Does anyone remember nom? He used to post on CC, and we still chat. He was kind enough to go through the whole thing and solve the problem. What a relief!</p>
<p>hrmmm i started using google web accelerator, until i realized it breaks gmail :(</p>
<p>in fact it breaks this site too!</p>
<p>Does the google web acc uses the google cache in order to quickly serve pages? If that’s the case, well…</p>
<p>no it makes a local cache and prefetches pages that are linked from your current page, breaking every remotely complicated website in the process.</p>