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Old 07-17-2009, 01:33 PM   #10
student4ever
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Originally Posted by thruma View Post
Firefox is totally hands down a better browser but it does pain me to say that IE8 is much faster than FF and doesn't come near to being the memory hog that FF is.

As great as FF is they still haven't fixed the memory problem.
Can't deny the memory issue with FF, especially when you keep gobs of tabs open like I do. Every now and again I have to simply restart it to clear things out.

I don't have IE8 installed, but have you checked the speed of FF3.5 versus IE8? FF3.5 has a lot more zip to it than previous versions.
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