Ívar Þórólfsson;9448179 said:
When I opened my taskmanager one day and saw half a gig of memory devoted to FF I started looking for other stuff. I'm now looking at iron.
Thanks talk bass!
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Just ditched FF for Chrome
- Thread starter Eric Perry
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When I opened my taskmanager one day and saw half a gig of memory devoted to FF I started looking for other stuff. I'm now looking at iron.
Thanks talk bass!
Ívar Þórólfsson;9448179 said:
Why don't you just run a little script to flush your memory? You could even run it as a scheduled task a couple times a day. I use those for friends who have apps that have memory leaks, like Quicken.
-Mike
I swear that I thought this was another "I switched to flats" thread. 
I started using Chome about a month ago, too. Its great stuff.
I started using Chome about a month ago, too. Its great stuff.
There's a lot of plug ins that fixes memory leaks in FF.. FF uses a lot of memory too compare to chrome/iron so I settled myself with iron..
Re: Big Brother, that was and has been a concern, so I'm actually not using Chrome, but Iron. Chrome is open source, so there are alternatives. Iron is based on Chrome, so I figured it would be easier to just say Chrome on here. I'm technically using SRWare Iron. None of the privacy concerns of Chrome!
And it uses any and all Chrome extensions!
I'm going to try Iron and see if Chrome to Phone works with it.
Update......Cool, it works. I'll give Iron a try for a few days. I really like IE, and so far nothing has been able to sawy me away from it.
-Mike
Update......Cool, it works. I'll give Iron a try for a few days. I really like IE, and so far nothing has been able to sawy me away from it.
-Mike
Chrome is a perfectly fine browser but if you're a consumer of web applications, Firefox is where it's at. Pretty much every web app is first built in Firefox then made to work in IE then made to work in Safari/Chrome and then made to work in Opera. It's not because Firefox is the best (it's not by a long shot) but because it has the best debugging tools. Opera is actually the fastest right now.
Can any of you suggest equivalents to the NoScript and Firebug plug-ins for Iron/Opera? I'd make the switch from FireFox if I found these.
You mean like Firefox Home for the iPhone?
I love Opera
I made the switch awhile ago FTPIE and I'll never go back. I've tried firefox on countless occasions, but it's just not for me.
Chrome (and, in turn, Iron) has a version of Firebug now. It's missing a couple of features from the Firefox version, but it'll catch up. As for Noscript, there isn't anything yet, since the way Chrome renders web pages makes it difficult to do. You can start up Chrome from the command line with a parameter that switches off Javascript (-disable-javascript), but it's not the most convenient thing. Most modern websites are more or less unusable without Javascript these days though, thanks to the almost ubiquitous use of AJAX, so I doubt it's a priority for developers to make a noscript plugin.
No idea about Opera though. So few people actually use it that there isn't a great deal of development going on for plugins, and adding support for it during the web development process is usually an afterthought, if it's done at all.
I've tried Opera several times, and just never liked it. Not sure why, but I could never stand using it. I was the ultimate FF fanboi, but the excessive memory leaks, and consistent screw ups with download locations (WHY is this an issues with FF when it's never been an issue with ANY other browser???) had me finally dump FF forever. So far, Iron has been awesome. It does seem snappier than FF as well.
From the sound of it, it does the same thing as the app you mentioned. All open tabs in your firefox browser will be open on your iPhone.
Chrome to Phone isn't quite the same. CtP will let you text a webpage to your Android device from the browser.
-Mike
-Mike
Perhaps.
With your way, I would need to compose an e-mail, send it, open the e-mail client on the Android device, and then go to the link. With CtP, you click once on the browser, and once on the Android device.
I use it all the time to queue up files I want to download, or direction maps to somewhere I need to go later after I left the house. Stuff like that.
CtP is not a ground breaking application to revolutionize mobile computing. It looks to me like someone came up with a good idea to make web surfing on your Android device easier.
-Mike
I don't use it, but you think Explorer would get its act together. I'm going to try Chrome or Iron I guess based on what everyone is saying here, but honestly, I've enjoyed FF for many years. But my computer is older, occasionally runs slower even debugged frequently, so I'm going to switch over I think.
