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[Stone]

I love firefox, but it takes up an unbelievable amount of CPU, my laptop heats up so much it's scalding and then it shuts down

Memory Usage: 128,535 k
CPU Usage: 87%

So whats a good alternative? OTHER than IE 7

[ChromoX]

Opera is a very good one

[Cataliste]

Opera. I have heard good things about NetScape.

[dolphinbomb]

I'll have to hop on the bandwagon and suggest Opera.

The only thing I don't like about it is the inability to use Firefox extensions, but it's not like I used a whole lot of them, so I can deal with it

[Cataliste]

Reading this topic has made me decide to reinstall Opera.

[redlion]

Erm, I'm pretty sure that the developers' version of Firefox is like a streamlined version of FF. I don't know the breakdown on CPU usage stats, but I can tell you that it definitely is more mundane than FF. Its called SeaMonkey, and its pretty rad.

I'd check it out before trying another high RAM usage program like Opera.

[ChromoX]

Last I remember Opera is extremely efficient in everything it does along with being the fastest HTML rendering engine.

[slimemonkey]

Opera definitely. It even has cool little widgets!

[moosejuice]

the only other one i ahve used is opera but that was several years ago so i don;t have much to offfer on the subject i guess... basically just bumping in i guess. boy am i a waste

[Fatal]

i would go to ie before opera

[slimemonkey]

@Fatal:

So whats a good alternative? OTHER than IE 7

@Stone:But...IE 7 is kinda cool. Any reason you want to avoid it?

[3ntropy]

Opera slows my computer down worse than FireFox.

I use Flock. Its specially designed for media users. It was based off of Firefox.

CODE

http://www.flock.com/

Edited by 3ntropy, 17 May 2007 - 03:46 AM.

[Maleek]

IE 7 sucks because of ActiveX, Opera sucks because I just don't like it and FireFox is way better because of the stuff you can do with it and use it for if you know what I mean. Also the best alternative is to get a ram upgrade

Edited by Maleek, 17 May 2007 - 04:07 AM.

[Fatal]

Opera sucks because of the interface / not customizable enough
IE sucks because of the interface / not customizable enough
firefox sucks because without perfectly set tweaks/plugins, its a pointless browser because of its speed
netscape.. eh havent used it in a while so I cant give much of an opinion, but last time I checked it was similar to IE 5/6
Safari... havent tried it in a while, I MIGHT be on a mac tomorrow so i'll check it out if I can


still firefox wins out of the 3 though IMO

[Shadow]

I use firefox. You should try reinstalling firefox.

If you have to switch use opera or maxthon.

[ShadowLink64]

I'll have to hop on the bandwagon and suggest Opera.

*bandwagon* Opera. (even though I've never used Opera)

Anything but IE.

[Fatal]

IE is really not that bad, the only advantage that firefox has for me (PERSONALLY, not saying it applies to anyone but me) is that firefox has adblock, IE has similar popup blocker/etc but it doesnt work near as well. I have never seen a situation were firefox has saved me from a virus or something

[Greeny]

opera, is good. its fully features (irc, notepad mail rss etc.)

but it doesnt have xml yet as far as i know (i dont think its that big of a deal) but wow.com used it for a bit.

[Shadow]

Opera would be better if it was more customizable and was better at ad blocking. I found it hard to remove ads that firefox + ad block got rid of.

[Greeny]

widgets?

[Freystein]

I would suggest SeaMonkey(Formally Mozzila). It works just like firefox but it isn't as intensive.

[shepherd]

how about just stick to IE 6? lol..

[Shadow]

How about no? IE 6 is not secure if you want to have adware and spyware from browsing some sites go for it Ill stick to firefox or opera.

[Kail]

Flock or K-Meleon are good

[jc301290]

<Bandwagon> I'll say opera. NetScape is just outdated,you don't want FireFox(The best out there btw),neither do you want IE(No idea if it's good or bad but would have been my 2nd choice)</bandwagon>