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Main reason I switched from opera was because it was crashing all the time when I used to use it. That was a couple of major versions ago though so it's probably not a problem anymore. It was difficult to make btp look nice in it as well, might also be better. I did like the feature that zooms the whole page.. while colorzilla (I think) can do that it doesn't scale absolute positions so it comes out wierd.

iirc ReloadEvery reloads a single page every x seconds, doesn't reload every tab ;).

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I've got 5 extensions installed for firefox, starts up in a few seconds and rarely crashes. It used to when I had more extensions, alot of them were left over from older fversions and I think they had some conflicts going on, so I made myself a new profile and it works fine.

But yeh it does take up a bit much memory at times, particularly if you leave it open for a week as I tend to do.

HarrY, I don't think you have any reason to fear FireFTP, you can see the source code to every extension by looking in the xpi, people would say something if it was sending your login details to random addresses.

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err.. firefox just crashed :?

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Quoted :: ZoGgEr!

while colorzilla (I think) can do that it doesn't scale absolute positions so it comes out wierd.


True.


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iirc ReloadEvery reloads a single page every x seconds, doesn't reload every tab ;).


Then skate should have corrected me, as it's an extention he uses, but he no doubt doesn't.


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But yeh it does take up a bit much memory at times, particularly if you leave it open for a week as I tend to do.


You leave firefox open over a week? You leave your computer on over a week? Or hibernate?

I'd only leave firefox open for about a day downloading a file, if I was downloading a file that took a week to download i'd use a download manager.

I need to close it anyway-need the memory for gaming.


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HarrY, I don't think you have any reason to fear FireFTP, you can see the source code to every extension by looking in the xpi, people would say something if it was sending your login details to random addresses.


I didn't know that, but still I couldn't do that myself as I know bugger all generally when it comes to coding. I'm (somewhat) happy with smartFTP. Shame they changed the GUI.

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Albeit, its the slowest program to start up ever, but you didnt mentiont that.

Are you saying Firefox is the slowest program to start up ever? What planet are you on?


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It's actually displaying BTP properly.

Did you try it with all the designs or just one?

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I suppose that's one "good" thing about my degree (aero engineering), there aren't too many terms/words/etc that have "alternative" meanings.
What, like cockpits, turboshafts, thrust, nozzles, corkscrews, ram drag, payload, flaps, and wind tunnels?
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Photoshop/coreldraw/flash/fireworks/windows/adaware all startup slower than firefox.

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Then skate should have corrected me, as it's an extention he uses, but he no doubt doesn't.


i use it, i assumed that tabmix does the same - gah - now to reinstall reload every.

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I used to use Opera. I changed to Firefox because:

Opera displays some pages incorrectly
Opera doesn't have the Gmail notifier, or for that matter, many other extensions.

However there are annoying problems with firefox:

I tend to type in "bl" in the address bar and then click on the BTP link on the drop down. However, occasionally when I do, it doesn't go to BTP and does the same thing as if you typed in bl and then pressed enter, which sends me to the british library site.

Another thing I don't like with Firefox, well it's more like a feature in Opera that I miss. In Opera I could hover the mouse over the horizontal scroll bar and use the mouse wheel to go left and right. That was a good feature.

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Main reason I switched from opera was because it was crashing all the time when I used to use it. That was a couple of major versions ago though so it's probably not a problem anymore. It was difficult to make btp look nice in it as well, might also be better. I did like the feature that zooms the whole page.. while colorzilla (I think) can do that it doesn't scale absolute positions so it comes out wierd.

iirc ReloadEvery reloads a single page every x seconds, doesn't reload every tab ;).

Anyway,
I've got 5 extensions installed for firefox, starts up in a few seconds and rarely crashes. It used to when I had more extensions, alot of them were left over from older fversions and I think they had some conflicts going on, so I made myself a new profile and it works fine.

But yeh it does take up a bit much memory at times, particularly if you leave it open for a week as I tend to do.

HarrY, I don't think you have any reason to fear FireFTP, you can see the source code to every extension by looking in the xpi, people would say something if it was sending your login details to random addresses.



There's an option to reload every tab every x seconds with ReloadEvery however.
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Yes, C1. We've established that. It's even mentioned in the very post you quoted.

And skate you should have checked tab mix plsu out, I did state what I thought reloadevery did.

StarWorms: You can get mice where the scrollwheel tilts, allowing you to use the horazontal bar in that fashon.

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Yes, C1. We've established that. It's even mentioned in the very post you quoted.

And skate you should have checked tab mix plsu out, I did state what I thought reloadevery did.

StarWorms: You can get mice where the scrollwheel tilts, allowing you to use the horazontal bar in that fashon.



No it says "doesn't reload every tab" but it can.
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I might still stick to FireFox and yes I have all the updates, obviously. I know there's faster but Mozilla doesn't go that slow for me and I have 0 extensions.

Edit: Oh, is this me? Or does Opera 9.0b not change image sizes corresponding to your browser size in minimum form.

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It's actually displaying BTP properly.

Did you try it with all the designs or just one?



Rofl. Opera phails at editing posts.

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I kinda doubt whether that is Opera's fault. :P

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I suppose that's one "good" thing about my degree (aero engineering), there aren't too many terms/words/etc that have "alternative" meanings.
What, like cockpits, turboshafts, thrust, nozzles, corkscrews, ram drag, payload, flaps, and wind tunnels?
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Albeit, its the slowest program to start up ever, but you didnt mentiont that.

Are you saying Firefox is the slowest program to start up ever? What planet are you on?

I'll put it in perspective for you. On my computer, it takes 14 seconds for firefox to start up without any other programs running. It takes flash MX 4 seconds.

I just tried Opera. It IS fantastic and i now have a horrible dilemma...hwhich do I use as a default???
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After the first load, when I startup, Firefox loads in half a second for me. Then again, I have no extensions or toolbars installed.

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