Thursday, February 23, 2012

Randoms

Holy cow, the new Firefox blows chunks.  It's bloated, a memory hog, and needs to be killed and restarted every day - on both Windows and Linux.  Anyone tried out Opera on Linux?  I'm watching this appear character-by-character on my monitor.  Congratulations, Mozilla Foundation - you've recreated the 2400 baud modem on modern Internet technology!

Oh, well: at least I'm not ranty.  I'm "unreasonably civilized", it seems!

But speaking of ranty, on the drive home Michael Savage (I know, I know) went full-on Borepatchian on how he doesn't see a lick of difference between the two main parties.  Always trust content from Borepatch!

It was 87° on the drive home.  Austin sure isn't like Boston in February.  Or even Atlanta.  I don't remember the last time I had the air conditioning on in February.

16 comments:

Dave H said...

I've always found your blog to be one of the slower ones to load and even scroll down through, regardless of browser. Installing the Flashblock addon in FireFox helped (so I can lay a good deal of the blame at Adobe's feet) but it's not a cure-all. Neither is Chrome.

Brock Townsend said...

I always use Firefox, but have Opera also. Sometimes Opera will work better than Firefox. I have noticed that Blogger has been slow as molasses in winter later, though.:)

NotClauswitz said...

Havn't been having that kind of trouble with 10.0.2, but certain incompatibilities are pissing me off. I think it's blogger more than anything.

Irish said...

I havent noticed any issues with firefox. Im running on XP pro.

By the way you are missing 30s and 40s here.. and NOOOOO SNOW!! :)

Brock Townsend said...

69 here.

Ken said...

I guess even the purveyor of talk radio for Beavis and Butthead has finally figgered it out.

CoolChange©© said...

83 north of Houston. Yeah it's a sucky winter. And I'm not in a hurry to load the new firefox. New fixes and versions are coming out way to fast.

Jamie said...

Thanks for the heads up I've been putting off the Firefox update. I'm glad I'm going to wordpress instead of blogger the new captcha blows chunks.

GuardDuck said...

I've been using the Pale Moon version of Firefox. Lot of the bloat pared out and optimized for newer windoze machines.

I've noticed it to be faster, more responsive and crash free.

YMMV.

Old NFO said...

55 in 'lovely' Okinawa, and raining for the 12th day in a row...

Ruth said...

Hmmm, I've not had any real issues with the newest FF, I'm on XP....but maybe I should say that I've not noticed any NEW issues, there are a FEW pages that haven't loaded correctly for me in months if I'm using FF.....

Brock Townsend said...

GuardDuck said...
I've been using the Pale Moon version of Firefox.

Hey, I checked it out last night and ended up with Waterfox as they said that was the best for 64 bit. It seemed better right away. We shall see. Thanks.!

Waterfox | Home | The fastest 64-Bit variant of Firefox!
http://waterfoxproject.org/downloads/

BenC said...

I use Chrome. As for air conditioning in February if you had been in GA yesterday you may have used it there also.I live in SC and it was high 70's here and I had my AC on.

NotClauswitz said...

Waterfox?? It's another upper-70's day here.

Brock Townsend said...

In case you missed it.

Waterfox | Home | The fastest 64-Bit variant of Firefox!
http://waterfoxproject.org/downloads/

SiGraybeard said...

I've run Firefox for years and never seen what you're describing. Under XP, Unbuntu until 11.11 and Win 7.

I have a hosts file to block many ads/popups/etc., which might have something to do with it.