Re: OT (was Re: Cricket widgets)

"R. Bharat Rao" <rao_bharat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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> "Yuk Tang" <jim.laker2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> "R. Bharat Rao" <rao_bharat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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>> The latest versions are a notorious memory hog though. I'd long
>> had 1.0pr on my machine, and upgraded to 1.5 to see what it was
>> like, especially with the cache feature I loved in Opera. I
>> noticed the memory leakage when everything slowed down, FF having
>> consumed some 400MB. I've now switched to 1.0.7, the version of
>> choice for FF veterans, with session saver to help recover from
>> any enforced closures.
>
> The sad thing is the 1.5 is still faster than IE by some margin.

Not when it's left 20 MB of RAM free, having taken up the rest. But
Fasterfox is nice.


> I have to try 1.0.7 (never used that version before).

Which have you got?


>> What I would love is an adblock with a whitelist. Adblock plus
>> does this, but in a less than user-friendly manner. There was
>> another reason why I took that off and went back to the classic
>> version, but it's out of mind atm.
>
> There are lots of nice free pop-up blockers out there -- though
> the need for them has steadily gone down now that Firefox has its
> own.

Adblock is a Firefox extension. Adblock plus is the unofficial
extension of that extension, by someone other than the original
creator. The latter is oft recommended, but there was a reason, now
left my mind, why I prefered the original.


> One of my techie friends is strongly suggesting The Proxomitron.
> The only reason I haven't got around to it as yet, is that she
> says that it takes some
> effort to learn to use properly. It (apparantly -- haven't used
> it, so can't vouch
> for it) transforms and filters pages in real-time as you visit
> them -- therefore,
> it not only stops pop-ups, but also pop-unders, ads, flash anims,
> status bar scrollers, and a list of many other things she told me
> about, but I have forgotten;
> but the summary was "it stops everything you want stopped":-)

I use a mixture of adblock, noscript and nuke anything. My only
regret about moving to 1.0.7 has been the loss of flashblock, which
replaces flash bits with a button you have to click on for them to
run.


> I use the Google toolbar myself (drawing the scorn of more than
> one tech-o-file);
> it isn't as strong as the P -- can't stop flash or pop-unders for
> example -- but it
> works decently out of the box, and doesn't need to be
> configured:-)

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Cheers, ymt.
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