Author Topic: Firefox Rules, MSIE Drools.  (Read 1276 times)

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Firefox Rules, MSIE Drools.
« 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!
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« Reply #1 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.

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« Reply #2 on: 8 July 2004, 12:12 »
NT4 Server = the culprit?

I bet it uses more RAM itself or something.
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« Reply #3 on: 9 July 2004, 06:37 »
I've never liked MSIE, FireFox works much better for me!
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« Reply #4 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.

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« Reply #5 on: 13 July 2004, 05:19 »
From my experience, Opera 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