Get Firefox 10 on PowerPC macs

[shovenose]

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At least this never happens when running firefox in Mac:

Hahaha! You should post that on the funny pictures thread on HWI

[c_hegge]

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^
Done

[Uranium-235]

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never happens to me ether, well, maybe 3 times a year, on win7 or the xp box

[shovenose]

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Firefox like never crashes...

[pentium]

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I'm running 3.2 and it's barely useable for me.
Then again, I'm running on a 300mhz O2.

[shovenose]

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what's an O2?
I got Firefox 10 (or was it 9?) to run on a Pentium 1 laptop. It was terribly slow but it actually ran better than IE5

[momaka]

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Firefox like never crashes...

I've had it crash only once (I was using version 3.0.something on that computer). After opening Firefox again, it restored all of my tabs the way they were, so nothing lost. Can't complain.

I got Firefox 10 (or was it 9?) to run on a Pentium 1 laptop. It was terribly slow but it actually ran better than IE5

That's because older versions of IE (6 and below) just can't cope with modern websites. Find an old, HTML-only website (are there even any nowadays?) and try again. IE should run much faster on that while also using less RAM.

The problem is with Flash - it is slow no matter which way you look at it.
Fun fact: YouTube HD (Flash) runs better on 2x 1 GHz Pentium 3's than it does on a single 2 GHz Pentium 4 Northwood (unless, of course, the video card had influence on this, which I'm not sure about - the dual P3 PC had GeForce 6200 PCI and the P4 GeForce FX5600 AGP). For some strange reason, though, the dual Pentium 3 PC I was using for the testing had a really hard time playing regular SD videos with WMP and VLC. I'm pretty sure it's not the processors, since I never had problems watching the same videos on a single 933 MHz Pentium 3. Weird....
Also, my 750 MHz AMD Athlon system really hates Flash (can barely run 240p on YouTube), but at the same time it has no problem playing 720p DivX AVI on full screen at 1920x1080 resolution.

So yeah, Lti is right - it's flash and it's bloated advertisements that slow everything down.

[Uranium-235]

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fun fact: if you're on any kind of SMP machine (dual core, dual processor, whatever) flash will always run on the 2nd/3rd/4th/whatever core/cpu and stay away from the first one if it can. Which is why the dual P3 worked better with flash, as opposed to your media players, which probably ran it all off the first cpu

[Topcat]

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what's an O2?
I got Firefox 10 (or was it 9?) to run on a Pentium 1 laptop. It was terribly slow but it actually ran better than IE5

You nubb, seriously?! It's a typo for P2..... Didn't the 300MHz give it away?!

[c_hegge]

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^
Yup. Easy to make. O and P are next to each other.

[shovenose]

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D'oh...
Yeah/I realized that now

[Scenic]

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Firefox like never crashes...

It's obvious that you're not a poweruser by any means.

FFX crashes on a regular basis for me. First I get split-second lockups every now and then which continuously worsen till the entire thing simply crashes.
And this is without flash or any other plugin running (plugin-container.exe killed)

However, I'm running FFX 24/7. It usually doesn't last more than 2 days without leaking so much memory that it starts the split-second lockups and crashes some time later.

It's currently in its lockup state, using a bit more than 2060MB RAM and is continuously creeping up. I'm expecting it to crash in a couple hours, even without doing anything with it.

[Agent24]

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Yeah I get that problem too.

It seems to cache every page even if you close tabs and eventually the memory usage becomes insane.

The only way to free the memory is to shutdown and restart it, but I think they should make it unload the data as you navigate away or close the tabs.


That said, I have experienced this problem with IE7, Opera and Safari as well.

[toastygoodness]

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Yeah I get that problem too.

It seems to cache every page even if you close tabs and eventually the memory usage becomes insane.

The only way to free the memory is to shutdown and restart it, but I think they should make it unload the data as you navigate away or close the tabs.


That said, I have experienced this problem with IE7, Opera and Safari as well.

they cache some of the page (depending on your cache settings) in case you want to re-open the tab with CTRL+SHIFT+T. easiest thing is to turn off cache, and not use tabs :P

or in opera, i believe you can turn off tab memorization (the trash can function) somewhere in opera:config.

[Agent24]

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Well I would rather that it didn't cache every single page just in case I wanted to reopen the tab.

Saving the tab history, yes, saving the tab contents, no. On the occasion that I do want to reopen a tab, it can re-download the page.

Or perhaps save them for 1 minute or so just in case you closed it by accident - but after that, unloading from memory would be a clever idea.

[shovenose]

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It's obvious that you're not a poweruser by any means.

FFX crashes on a regular basis for me. First I get split-second lockups every now and then which continuously worsen till the entire thing simply crashes.
And this is without flash or any other plugin running (plugin-container.exe killed)

However, I'm running FFX 24/7. It usually doesn't last more than 2 days without leaking so much memory that it starts the split-second lockups and crashes some time later.

It's currently in its lockup state, using a bit more than 2060MB RAM and is continuously creeping up. I'm expecting it to crash in a couple hours, even without doing anything with it.

Oh really? I have 20 add-ons installed, I often use.advanced.editing functions on Firefox, and I'm known to have 30 or so tabs open at once.
Then again I don't run it 24/7, that's unnecessary and idiotic.

[Topcat]

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Then again I don't run it 24/7, that's unnecessary and idiotic.

Are you talking about the browser or the system?! I'd imagine you wouldn't run the browser 24/7....you have to sleep some tiime...

My system hasn't been shut down in over a year.

[shovenose]

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Are you talking about the browser or the system?! I'd imagine you wouldn't run the browser 24/7....you have to sleep some tiime...

My system hasn't been shut down in over a year.

Yes I was talking about the browser.
My computer is turned off every night, and when I'm not home.

[Topcat]

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Mine folds...and in the winter, it keeps the computer room nice and toasty. I also hate waiting for computers to boot....so I just turn the monitor off...and when I want to use it, turn the monitor on and away I go. I do turn my office machines off though, except 'FrankenServer".

[c_hegge]

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^ When you have a Core i5 running XP, the bootup time is under 30 seconds, so I don't have a problem shutting my rig down when It's not needed. Besides, when you get >$300/month power bills, you have to do all you can to save power.