Firefox is Dying

Several years ago I thought Firefox was the greatest browser ever
created. But unfortunately it's dying from bloat. They just keep
making it more and more bloated to the point that it now takes over
one full minute to load. I'm not the most patient person when I have
to wait that long for ANY software to load.

Awhile ago I found myself going back to using IE as my default browser
because I just could not go thru this long wait everytime I clicked on
a weblink in usenet or an email. But I soon found myself struggling
with IE's usual crashing and freezing bullshit.

This is when someone told me about K-Melion. K-Melion is also made by
Mozilla, and it's everything that Firefox used to be. Better yet, my
older computer that still uses Windows98 can even run K-Melion (which
any version 3 of FF will not run in Win98). K-Melion loads as fast as
IE did, and after several months of use, it's NEVER crashed once.

I find myself using K-Melion as my default browser now. I have only
opened FF a few times recently, and only because I wanted to use the
Addon "Download Helper" to download Youtube videos. Well, suddenly
"Download Helper" will no longer download videos from Youtube. I dont
know if this is due to Youtube changing something, Firefox just
refusing to use that addon anymore, or the addon itself. All I know
is that I am beginning to hate FF.

I just wish K-Melion had a similar addon, because I'd wipe FF right
off my harddrive. K-Melion even renders web pages correctly, when FF
wont. Goodbye Firefox.... you were a good friend until you got too
fat and bloated. Now you're useless. (just like a few women I once
knew).

Welcome K-Melion !

 

try chrome

 

Kuskokwim wrote on [Mon, 30 Aug 2010 06:59:27 -0700]:

Who prints web pages?

 

Ed Mullen wrote on [Mon, 30 Aug 2010 14:18:38 -0400]:

Sure, but I buy from places that send me an email receipt.

Or print to file, who cares if you preview that?

 

Chrome dont run in Windows 98, and although I have XP on one computer,
I still use the Win98 computer the most. I have never cared for any
version of Windows since Win2000. Besides that, my XP computer is not
even setup to go on the internet. All the viruses are for XP and up.
Using Win98 I dotn even need AV software.

 

On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:24:21 -0500, in message <>

Firefox loads in 2 seconds here.

However, Firefox is slow on ten-year-old computers (like yours).

The name is K-Meleon, not K-Melion.

No, it is not.

K-Meleon uses the Gecko rendering engine which is made by Mozilla.
However, the rest of K-Meleon is made by its own development team.
The K-Meleon team uses Sourceforge facilities, not Mozilla facilities.

 

Then frankly, you're an idiot. You should run Linux or something if
you are not a fan of windows, running a 12 year old OS that hasn't had
any security updates in years is stupid.

 

Kuskokwim wrote on [Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:15:07 -0700]:

And I work all day every day on the web and never print a web page. PDFs, sure
but they are in their own app that isn't chrome.

works well for me. Same as firefox

 

Who prints web pages?

When I buy something online I screen capture the details before I checkout
of the order, then I have a record of the purchase. If you want to print
that out, you can also once you save it to your hard drive.

Regards
Katherine

 

Win98 is a great deal more secure than the later Windows like the
original XP. A lot of the vulns started appearing in IE5.x and in
the later versions of Windows. Just because some later versions of
Windows needed heaps of patches before they became secure, it doesn't
mean you should assume the same would go for Win98.

To make Win98 safe the OP will need to have closed port 139 (preventing
NetBIOS access into his PC). IMNSHO this is best done by renaming
Windows\System\VNBT.386 to something like VNBT.BAK -- as described
in these pages
• http://www.nwi.net/~pchelp/security/issues/sharing.htm#names
• http://rshweb.com/Win95/win95tips6.htm#More Blue Screen Blues
• http://www.grc.com/su-rebinding9x.htm


Just FYI - I ran a Win98 box for over a decade, accessing the Internet
daily, and it never got infected. During this time, an XP box got
infected across the net through a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows
LSASS. This LSASS vuln does not exist at all in Win98 (and NT4.0),
but made its appearance in Win2K.

 

Plonk. Global. Permanent.

 

Joy Beeson wrote on [Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:14:44 -0400]:

Good luck with that.

 

I tried out chrome because I read it had separate processes for each
tab. But turns out that's not entirely true. By default, it uses the
same process for tabs from the same domain. So when 1 tab crashed, it
still took down another 10 tabs with it. I also did not notice any
speed improvement with the separate processes. I spent an entire month
devoutly learning all the ins and outs of chrome. Didn't suit me, so I
switched back to Firefox.

Nowadays, when flash crashes, it doesn't take down the entire browser.
In the end, I found Firefox to be faster and more stable for my usage.