RE: Firefox is a slow pig
- From: "Troy Radtke" <TRadtke@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:16:46 -0500
I've had lots of photo editing software in the past do the same thing, where
they grab the file association and then when uninstalled, they don't put it
back to the MS default or the last program before them (hint to any and all
developers out there: a choice like that at uninstall would be nice!)
Tabbed browsing has really changed the way I surf web pages. It took a few days
to get use to it, but now I have a hard time not using it. It's great to be
able to right click and "open in tabs" and I've got all of the pages for all of
my troubleshooting sites open, loaded, and waiting for me to flip around to
when I want them, all in one browser window that sits nice and compact in the
task bar.
-----Original Message-----
From: Amy Babinchak [mailto:amy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 10:02 AM
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Subject: [isalist] RE: Firefox is a slow pig
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Maybe that's the thing. They weren't installing a new version of FF but rather
hoping to go back to using IE. While FF removed its file associations that's
all it did. The file extensions were all left non-functional. Most annoying.
This hasn't happened at just one office either. It just happened that a whole
department did it at once at that one location. I've had to fix others, one or
two at a time for other companies.
Amy
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-----Original Message-----
From: Troy Radtke [mailto:TRadtke@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 10:53 AM
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Subject: [isalist] RE: Firefox is a slow pig
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Between the 5 or 6 computers I've installed FF on, I've never had an issue with
uninstalling it. That would be on W2k Sp4 professional and XP sp1. I
uninstall the old version before I upgrade to a new version. I've always used
the .exe and had it set to the default browser.
Tom - FF does not have components loaded by the system ahead of time. IE
"borrows" some of it's functionality from other Windows subsystems which are
loaded at boot time. Once FF is loaded, opening a new tab is almost instant,
versus opening a new window with IE, which takes a few seconds on my system,
and causes my other apps that are running to "lag" for that stretch of time.
And to the RTFM comment, newbies to this place tend to get the response of RTFA
- Read The Fine Articles. Everyone does it.....
-----Original Message-----
From: Amy Babinchak [mailto:amy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 9:28 AM
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Subject: [isalist] RE: Firefox is a slow pig
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Beware the uninstall. I had to reset the file extension associations through an
entire cad department. They all decided that FireFox was the thing then decided
that they didn't like, all in mass. It left a big mess behind.
Amy
Harbor Computer Services
Small Business Computer Specialists
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-----Original Message-----
From: Thomas W Shinder [mailto:tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 9:56 AM
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Subject: [isalist] Firefox is a slow pig
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Hey guys,
OK, I finally gave in an downloaded Firefox to see what the hubbub was
about. I configured it to use the autoconfig script and it appears to
actually understand it, as it is working as a Web proxy client based on
observing the real time logging on the ISA firewall.
However, compared to IE, the thing is a slow pig! I noticed that there
wasn't an option to configure it to use HTTP 1.1 through proxy
connections. Anyone know if this is a default setting, not a default
setting, or something I have to spend hours on open sources sites trying
to find the answer to after being pummeled with RTFM responses?
Thanks!
Tom
www.isaserver.org/shinder <http://www.isaserver.org/shinder>
Tom and Deb Shinder's Configuring ISA Server 2004
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