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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24886
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People always use to tell me that Firefox was way better than IE, and for awhile I bought. But over the last several updates, I've noticed something. It isn't.
Firefox is a massive resource hog possibly with a memory sink. Whereas IE consistently uses around 80,000 K of memory, Firefox starts off at around 100,000 K and will slowly creep up to 143,000 K or more at which point it will cause horribly slowdown problems on my computer. Why do people like this piece of shit?
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
Posts: 6544
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Because most people that have it aren't using a shit computer.
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Fighter_McWarrior
Title: Gun of Brixton
Joined: Jun 05 2011
Location: Down by the River
Posts: 1087
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And that's why I use Chrome
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
Posts: 7565
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Because Microsoft is evil. Duh.
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24886
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| JoshWoodzy wrote: |
| Because most people that have it aren't using a shit computer. |
Ha! But doesn't that actually prove my point further? The big complaint about Microsoft software has ALWAYS been that it's like a fucking Hummer: large, inefficient, and filled with a ton of unnecessary shit that make people with small genitals feel better about themselves.
For Firefox to be better than IE, objectively it should be leaner, more efficient, and not filled with bullshit that normal people don't care about. If it is none of those things, how is it better?
And while Firefox is OBNOXIOUSLY inefficient on my computer, it's still inefficient on every other computer as well.
This isn't fucking Crysis. This is a web browser.
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Klimbatize
2010 NES Champ
Title: 2011 Picnic/Death Champ
Joined: Mar 15 2010
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Posts: 5000
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Use Chrome and never look back.
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
Posts: 6544
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Yeah, I use Chrome as well. It's fantastic.
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Klimbatize
2010 NES Champ
Title: 2011 Picnic/Death Champ
Joined: Mar 15 2010
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Posts: 5000
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Whoa, what the hell? Since when does your name have capital letters, woodzy?
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The Flaming Schnitzel
Title: Tsar of all Russias
Joined: May 10 2011
Location: Minsk, Belarus
Posts: 810
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Plus, the last update made Chatzilla incompatible so that sucks. I have Chrome but I'm lazy and stick with Firefox anyways...
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LeshLush
Joined: Oct 19 2009
Location: Nashville, TN
Posts: 1479
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Firefox has a handful of seriously great add-ons. That's why I dig it.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
Posts: 7565
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| The Flaming Schnitzel wrote: |
| Plus, the last update made Chatzilla incompatible so that sucks. I have Chrome but I'm lazy and stick with Firefox anyways... |
Really? I'm still using ChatZilla...
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Beach Bum
Joined: Dec 08 2010
Location: At the pants party.
Posts: 1777
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I use Chrome too. Firefox was okay, certainly better than that steaming pile of shit called Internet Explorer. Tried using IE after installing Vista back before Vista was known to be a piece of shit and IE would freeze up constantly. Took me three tries to get to the Firefox webpage and get it downloaded before IE froze and I've never looked back. Chrome doesn't have a memory leak though and it has the only addon I used from Firefox in Adblock. Plus it has the snazzy little homepage with your 8 most common webpages visited, making it superior in my opinion.
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The Flaming Schnitzel
Title: Tsar of all Russias
Joined: May 10 2011
Location: Minsk, Belarus
Posts: 810
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| UsaSatsui wrote: |
| The Flaming Schnitzel wrote: |
| Plus, the last update made Chatzilla incompatible so that sucks. I have Chrome but I'm lazy and stick with Firefox anyways... |
Really? I'm still using ChatZilla... |
Do you have Firefox 9.0.1?
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Cattivo
Joined: Apr 14 2006
Location: Lake Michigan
Posts: 3332
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Firefox is pretty good in my opinion. IE always apes its design changes. There's the adblocking which is so good that it's sometimes too aggressive, it has a better interface, and it isn't as susceptible to hackers.
I'm sure GF will come on eventually with a better defense of it, as my knowledge of detailed computer stuff is limited.
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@om*d
Title: Dorakyura
Joined: Jul 10 2010
Location: Castlevania
Posts: 4226
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| The Flaming Schnitzel wrote: |
| UsaSatsui wrote: |
| The Flaming Schnitzel wrote: |
| Plus, the last update made Chatzilla incompatible so that sucks. I have Chrome but I'm lazy and stick with Firefox anyways... |
Really? I'm still using ChatZilla... |
Do you have Firefox 9.0.1? |
I have 9.0.1 and ChatZilla works fine. I am in the IRC right now.
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The Flaming Schnitzel
Title: Tsar of all Russias
Joined: May 10 2011
Location: Minsk, Belarus
Posts: 810
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| @om*d wrote: |
| The Flaming Schnitzel wrote: |
| UsaSatsui wrote: |
| The Flaming Schnitzel wrote: |
| Plus, the last update made Chatzilla incompatible so that sucks. I have Chrome but I'm lazy and stick with Firefox anyways... |
Really? I'm still using ChatZilla... |
Do you have Firefox 9.0.1? |
I have 9.0.1 and ChatZilla works fine. I am in the IRC right now. |
Whaaat? I tried downloading it and it told me it was incompatible. Idk.
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Klimbatize
2010 NES Champ
Title: 2011 Picnic/Death Champ
Joined: Mar 15 2010
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Posts: 5000
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| The Flaming Schnitzel wrote: |
| @om*d wrote: |
| The Flaming Schnitzel wrote: |
| UsaSatsui wrote: |
| The Flaming Schnitzel wrote: |
| Plus, the last update made Chatzilla incompatible so that sucks. I have Chrome but I'm lazy and stick with Firefox anyways... |
Really? I'm still using ChatZilla... |
Do you have Firefox 9.0.1? |
I have 9.0.1 and ChatZilla works fine. I am in the IRC right now. |
Whaaat? I tried downloading it and it told me it was incompatible. Idk. |
You need to go to the title screen, which is right next to your SD card.
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The Flaming Schnitzel
Title: Tsar of all Russias
Joined: May 10 2011
Location: Minsk, Belarus
Posts: 810
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| Klimbatize wrote: |
| The Flaming Schnitzel wrote: |
| @om*d wrote: |
| The Flaming Schnitzel wrote: |
| UsaSatsui wrote: |
| The Flaming Schnitzel wrote: |
| Plus, the last update made Chatzilla incompatible so that sucks. I have Chrome but I'm lazy and stick with Firefox anyways... |
Really? I'm still using ChatZilla... |
Do you have Firefox 9.0.1? |
I have 9.0.1 and ChatZilla works fine. I am in the IRC right now. |
Whaaat? I tried downloading it and it told me it was incompatible. Idk. |
You need to go to the title screen, which is right next to your SD card. |
Hahaha. That's a good one. 
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@om*d
Title: Dorakyura
Joined: Jul 10 2010
Location: Castlevania
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Did you have ChatZilla before you upgraded to 9.0.1? If you did, you should not have to download ChatZilla gain. I didn't have to.
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Mr. Satire
Joined: Jun 08 2010
Location: Termina Field
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Personally, since I have a good computer, the heavy memory usage of Firefox was hardly an issue most of the time. Although one time I did have it suck up around 1GB of RAM due to a bad plugin.
If Firefox's memory usage bothers you, use Chrome. It's very lean and fast, and as with almost all browsers (excluding IE) it is leaps and bounds ahead of IE.
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The Flaming Schnitzel
Title: Tsar of all Russias
Joined: May 10 2011
Location: Minsk, Belarus
Posts: 810
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| Did you have ChatZilla before you upgraded to 9.0.1? If you did, you should not have to download ChatZilla gain. I didn't have to. |
No, I didn't. This is a new computer so I had to download Firefox from its site and when I tried to download Chatzilla, it said it wasn't compatible. It doesn't matter now, because I've switched to Chrome.
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justdrop
Title: Supreme Overlord
Joined: Jan 11 2012
Location: Philadelphia
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| Fighter_McWarrior wrote: |
| And that's why I use Chrome |
| Klimbatize wrote: |
| Use Chrome and never look back. |
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Murdar Machene
New Member
Title: bimmy
Joined: Nov 06 2005
Location: the black warriors turf
Posts: 3207
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I agree that firefox is a memory hogging piece of shit. I just use it because I like to be able to disable javascript, and use addblock.
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slapolakinkaido
Title: Illegitimate Son of God
Joined: Jul 14 2009
Posts: 1565
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| Syd Lexia wrote: |
Ha! But doesn't that actually prove my point further? The big complaint about Microsoft software has ALWAYS been that it's like a fucking Hummer: large, inefficient, and filled with a ton of unnecessary shit that make people with small genitals feel better about themselves. |
My wife has small genitals, and she uses Firefox.
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Greg the White
Joined: Apr 09 2008
Location: Pennsylvania
Posts: 3112
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I use Firefox if I'm watching ad-heavy videos, and I don't feel like wading through Chrome's shitty archiving tool.
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So here's to you Mrs. Robinson. People love you more- oh, nevermind. |
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