Don't believe computer tips on the internet

[Sirotnikov]

They all suck.


My firefox has been acting up, eating memory and being generally unresponsive.

So I was searching the web for tips to speed it up, but the more configuration changes I made, the worse it became.

Finally, I made the decision to stop being lazy, and actually read up on the configuration values, and it turns up all the advice was wrong and written by idiots. Instead of making firefox fast, it made it unresponsive and jerky, and this was easily expected if anyone had read the FAQ.

Conclusion: don't rely on tweaking advice.

The same works for most various tweaking advice for windows. Most such advice is written by fools who have NO IDEA how stuff work, and make uneducated guesses judging from variable names.

[Space05us]

Firefox is craptastically slow on every computer I have ever used it on. It is also the safest browser I have ever used.

I've tried Opera and ended up with tons of trojans, and IE doesn't do a damn thing to stop popups.

[BlackCat]

Are you saying that you read the manual ????? pervert

[Sirotnikov]

Firefox is craptastically slow on every computer I have ever used it on. It is also the safest browser I have ever used.

I've tried Opera and ended up with tons of trojans, and IE doesn't do a damn thing to stop popups.

3.5 should be better

also i now know what are some good settings to get it to work

trojans have more to do with where you surf

[Space05us]

trojans have more to do with where you surf

If I surf there on Firefox I don't get the trojans.

[SlowwHand]

Firefox is craptastically slow on every computer I have ever used it on. It is also the safest browser I have ever used.

I've tried Opera and ended up with tons of trojans, and IE doesn't do a damn thing to stop popups.

You dumbass. It's not Opera, it's you. A browser can't stop all the trojans from your porn sites. Take some responsibility.

[Space05us]

If I surf there on Firefox I don't get the trojans.

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[SlowwHand]

Bull****.

[Asher]

Firefox is craptastically slow on every computer I have ever used it on. It is also the safest browser I have ever used.

I've tried Opera and ended up with tons of trojans, and IE doesn't do a damn thing to stop popups.

Is the browser slow, or are you slow?

It's verifiably faster than Opera and IE. Chrome and Safari are faster than it, but that's because they're featureless lightweight browsers.

[SlowwHand]

IE isn't even a consideration. Opera has other features that I like to have available.