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Miscellaneous => Applications => Topic started by: mobrien_12 on 8 July 2004, 06:55

Title: Firefox Rules, MSIE Drools.
Post by: mobrien_12 on 8 July 2004, 06:55

We have a Pentium 200 Win NT4 machine in the cleanroom for people to use.  Last week, some retard infected it with spyware from a file sharing program.  Now it has the "about:blank" hijacking virus on it.  The *&$%ing thing seems to be indestructable (do a search on Google and you will see what I'm talking about).

I put FireFox on it... wow it's nice and fast even on such a slow machine!

Title: Firefox Rules, MSIE Drools.
Post by: Xeen on 8 July 2004, 21:54

I'm very surprised to be honest. I have firefox running on a 233 Mhz Win NT 4.0 server machine and its slow as shit. Firefox is great, but it does have it memory hogging problems.

Title: Firefox Rules, MSIE Drools.
Post by: WMD on 8 July 2004, 12:12

NT4 Server = the culprit?

I bet it uses more RAM itself or something.

Title: Firefox Rules, MSIE Drools.
Post by: CyberCat on 9 July 2004, 06:37

I've never liked MSIE, FireFox works much better for me!

Title: Firefox Rules, MSIE Drools.
Post by: SheedRicolan on 13 July 2004, 02:18

On my old 450mhz/192mb ram machine I ran Firefox because I had a hijacked IE window and was too lazy to fix it. It's an awesome browser.

Title: Firefox Rules, MSIE Drools.
Post by: Refalm on 13 July 2004, 05:19

From my experience, Opera (http://www.opera.com/) is the best on old computers. It's not using much resources, and it's light and fast (excluding that built-in ad, unless you pay