RE: Firefox is a slow pig

  • From: "Thomas W Shinder" <tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "[ISAserver.org Discussion List]" <isalist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 09:38:37 -0500

Hi Troy,
I'll see what I could find. I live and die by that little app.

Tom
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Troy Radtke [mailto:TRadtke@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 9:31 AM
> To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
> Subject: [isalist] RE: Firefox is a slow pig
> 
> http://www.ISAserver.org
> 
> Tom,
> 
> There's probably a plug in somewhere that does that... You'd be
> surprised at all the stuff people have made.....  It just 
> takes time to
> locate it and make sure it's what you are looking for.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas W Shinder [mailto:tshinder@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 9:24 AM
> To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
> Subject: [isalist] RE: Firefox is a slow pig
> 
> 
> http://www.ISAserver.org
> 
> Hey Shawn,
> 
> Agree with you there. One thing that will probably make FF hit the
> dustbin of history for me is the inability to send a web link in an
> e-mail. I use an IE plug in that you can find at
> http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/regs_edits/Mailto_URL.zip 
> that allows me
> to right click on the page, and it sends only the link, not the hork
> that the native IE e-mail page thing does.
> 
> Tom
> www.isaserver.org/shinder
> Tom and Deb Shinder's Configuring ISA Server 2004
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> MVP -- ISA Firewalls
> 
>  
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Quillman Shawn (RBNA/CSA1) * 
> > [mailto:Shawn.Quillman@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2005 9:13 AM
> > To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
> > Subject: [isalist] RE: Firefox is a slow pig
> > 
> > http://www.ISAserver.org
> > 
> > 
> > I'll second you on these points.  I like FF for the general 
> > surfing, but
> > I'm a MS developer and since my highest comfort level in in their
> > languages and API's I like IE to develop for.  I'd never 
> > write a public
> > web app like I do for internal ones, though :)  You use 
> what does the
> > job best in any given environment and situation.  Windows, 
> Linux, Mac,
> > IE, FF, gotta have it all sometimes.  Holy wars are for 
> > people with too
> > much time on their hands.
> > 
> > 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Troy Radtke [mailto:TRadtke@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 5:53 PM
> > To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
> > Subject: [isalist] RE: Firefox is a slow pig
> > 
> > http://www.ISAserver.org
> > 
> > LMHOST/HOST file is use (by some people, I use to) for 
> resolving some
> > URL's just to 127.0.0.1, but you get that slight lag for 
> loads because
> > of it.  I don't really get pop-ups per say, but banners or 
> > side ads that
> > load a JPG or something like that it's good for.  Also good for
> > blackhole's if you want to keep someone's kid from going to *ahem*
> > "places" that they've found.....
> > 
> > FF isn't for everyone, but at least it worth looking at to 
> see if they
> > have something you like.  If so, send an e-mail to your 
> favorite MSFT
> > person and ask them to add it in.
> > 
> > *Disclaimer: I think I still have Netscape on floppy disk 
> from back in
> > the day.... So I show almost no brand loyalty to any browser 
> > (or company
> > for that matter of fact these days).....  It's all about 
> the features
> > and getting my job done faster.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ball, Dan [mailto:DBall@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 4:37 PM
> > To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
> > Subject: [isalist] RE: Firefox is a slow pig
> > 
> > 
> > http://www.ISAserver.org
> > 
> > Yep, four 17" monitors, at 1152x864 resolution, definitely a 
> > nice setup.
> > I keep trying to talk them into letting me get a LCD panel 
> array (one
> > with like nine screens), but they won't buy it for me...
> > 
> > I used to have 10-20 windows open at a time back when I was using a
> > dial-up connection, just because they loaded so god-awful 
> > slow.  But now
> > I don't have nearly as many, just the ones I'm actively using.  If I
> > pursue a new train of thought (web research), I open a new 
> window, and
> > browse from there.  If there are several links on one page 
> that I want
> > to review, I right-click each of them and open them in a new window.
> > Then, when I'm done with following that line of research, I 
> > simply close
> > that window.  I know the ones left open are the ones I'm not 
> > done with.
> > Right now I have several windows open, of which four of them are IE
> > windows.  I need to have one open for our website (for some 
> > reason they
> > want me to change something hourly or so...).  I have 
> another one open
> > on www.isaserver.org (was researching certificate 
> > information).  I have
> > another one open on a forum I was asking for help on.  And 
> one more on
> > our website where I'm not logged in, and viewing 
> anonymously.  So yes,
> > the concept of following multiple web threads is very well known to
> > me...
> > 
> > The difference between that and tabbed browsing?  Not much, 
> I can move
> > the windows around a lot more, each window has its own tab 
> on the task
> > bar instead of in one window...  In all, not much at all is 
> different,
> > in fact the "lack" of "tabbed browsing" seems appealing to me...  If
> > there is some other aspect of it that I'm missing, please 
> let me know.
> > 
> > Agreed, the alt-tab feature can be quite annoying, so I 
> rarely use it
> > anymore.  I find that if I'm browsing the web, I rarely 
> need to do any
> > actual typing, so my hand is already on the mouse and I can 
> > click on the
> > tab in the task bar to switch between windows.
> > 
> > Pop-up blocker, yep IE has one, and it works pretty good.  I see a
> > couple of them get by occasionally, but I've almost forgotten what a
> > pop-up looks like!
> > 
> > Block Image, that is an interesting concept, possibly quite useful.
> > Although, you shouldn't get all that many pop-ups to block in 
> > the first
> > place...
> > 
> > LMHOST files, I can't remember the last time I've had to 
> edit one.  In
> > Windows 3.11 I had to use them a lot, NT4 I used them a 
> > couple of times,
> > but I don't think I've had to edit one in at least five 
> years now.  I
> > found that anything that required a redirection like that 
> > could also be
> > done in the DNS server with a lot less manual labor.
> > 
> > It's not that I'm "against" Firefox, it's just that 
> > personally I haven't
> > found any good reason to switch to it.  Tabbed browsing does 
> > not in the
> > least sound appealing, and none of the other "features" people rave
> > about seem like anything I'd use either.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Troy Radtke [mailto:TRadtke@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 12:40 PM
> > To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
> > Subject: [isalist] RE: Firefox is a slow pig
> > 
> > http://www.ISAserver.org
> > 
> > Ok, let's say I only have a one 14" monitor...... (4 
> monitors! Wow...)
> > 
> > First, I don't have 11 open tasks in the task bar.  Right now 
> > other than
> > FF and IE, I have 6 different programs in the task bar.  
> Add one more
> > and not all of them are down there.  Pain the butt to ALT+Tab 
> > through 18
> > different things to get to the one I want or switch my hands to the
> > mouse just to click a window to have focus.
> > 
> > Second (for me) is opening new links in a new tab in the 
> same browser
> > window.  Ever work on more than one thing at once?  Like 
> > three different
> > trouble tickets for completely different software packages? 
>  It's nice
> > to keep all the info I've found for one ticket all in one browsers
> > window.  No flipping through 15+ windows looking for that 
> > registry hack
> > or that MS KB article that you found through Google because you're
> > working on multiple things.  All nice and organized.
> > 
> > Third, built in pop-up blocker.  It's awesome.  IE has it, 
> > yes, I know.
> > Does IE have tabbed browsing? Nope.
> > 
> > Fourth, right click, block image.  After doing it for a few 
> > days, banner
> > ads and other things like that don't show up anymore. Nice 
> when you're
> > at work and sometimes not so work friendly banners 
> sometimes pop-up on
> > web pages from doing web searches. And not tracking and 
> editing LMHOST
> > files anymore to keep up with things....
> > 
> > And I use a bunch of extensions at home for things (like 
> > adding ActiveX
> > support for my gf so she can use all of her web game stuff 
> *eye roll*)
> > and have it customized to heck and back.  Do all of the 
> > extensions work
> > flawlessly? No.  But some of them are handy to have.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ball, Dan [mailto:DBall@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 11:15 AM
> > To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
> > Subject: [isalist] RE: Firefox is a slow pig
> > 
> > 
> > http://www.ISAserver.org
> > 
> > Tabbed browsing is something that I just don't understand how 
> > it is more
> > useful.  In IE I right-click on a link, choose open in new 
> window, and
> > there it is.  Since I have four monitors on my computer, I move that
> > window to a different monitor and I can then compare documents
> > side-by-side.  If I wanted to switch between different open 
> > windows on a
> > single-monitor system, there are tabs in the taskbar to 
> click back and
> > forth between different pages.
> > 
> > So, what is the advantage of "tabbed browsing"?  Other than 
> > restricting
> > everything to one window instead of being able to spread them 
> > out, I see
> > no difference than IE.  Actually, it seems like more of a hindrance.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Troy Radtke [mailto:TRadtke@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 11:17 AM
> > To: [ISAserver.org Discussion List]
> > Subject: [isalist] RE: Firefox is a slow pig
> > 
> > http://www.ISAserver.org
> > 
> > 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. 
> > 
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