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... not me (well, not much) but the interwebs. I mean, so slow that even Gmail takes ages to load: forget watching streamed videos.
Apparently this is a known issue with Firefox 3.6. Phew!
*downloads Chrome beta.*
Incidentally ... I want to run two separate browsers with two separate sets of cookies (so I can stay logged into Google on one and not the other. Any suggestions for winning combinations? I've used Firefox and Flock up to now.
Apparently this is a known issue with Firefox 3.6. Phew!
*downloads Chrome beta.*
Incidentally ... I want to run two separate browsers with two separate sets of cookies (so I can stay logged into Google on one and not the other. Any suggestions for winning combinations? I've used Firefox and Flock up to now.
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Date: Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 05:46 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: Tuesday, March 16th, 2010 09:38 pm (UTC)Speedyfox (http://www.crystalidea.com/speedyfox) does actually seem to work; it defragments the Firefox databases, which become increasingly crufty over time.
(But whatever possessed Mozilla to adopt sqlite database structures that seem to collect inordinately large volumes of data on browsing history?)
I'd consider switching to Chrome, if I could find out how to run it without handing far too much personal data to Google...
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Date: Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 02:12 pm (UTC)Running multiple independent FFen is easy: create multiple profiles and fire each up with a command line like "firefox -p profilename -no-remote".
Having written all that, I use Chrome now for all my non-work-related browsing; haven't found a way to run multiple instances of that yet.
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Date: Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 03:12 pm (UTC)However, am eager to have a play with multiple profiles, which might fix my problem!
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Date: Thursday, March 18th, 2010 08:42 pm (UTC)