Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread Holly Bostick
David Morgan schreef: > On 14:20 Sat 17 Sep , Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> Once again I must be doing something wrong. I see the "Add more..." >> and I can navigate it okay, but nothing new ever shows up in the >> list of search engines. I've tried 4 or 5, so it's not the >> particular one...

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread David Morgan
On 14:20 Sat 17 Sep , Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > Once again I must be doing something wrong. I see the "Add more..." and > I can navigate it okay, but nothing new ever shows up in the list of search > engines. I've tried 4 or 5, so it's not the particular one... > I seem to remember that this ne

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/17/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> But: what's the modular search thingie?Click on the "G" in your search bar, you'll get a drop-down list ofother search engines that you can use to search for whatever you'researching for. Installed by default are Google, ebay, Amazon.com,Crea

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Kevin O'Gorman schreef: > On 9/17/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Session Saver, and the modular search engine bar, are such good >> features, which I find so essential, that Firefox would have to get >> a whole lot closer to unuseable than this before I'd consider >> giving i

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread Jonathan Wright
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I'm sure this is , so just send a pointer if you like, and I'll stop. But... This is great! I haven't paid much attention to FF/TB extensions up to now because the few I tried early on got obsolete and/or didn't work well. They are getting better - in fact there are a

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/17/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> And, I think with one of the tab extensions that you can download> it'll save the current tabs you have open and recreate them all for> you when you restart firefox.Why/How else do you think I have 30 tabs open constantly? Of *course* I use Se

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread Holly Bostick
Jonathan Wright schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >> Firefox itself has any issues, but it does seem to have a memory >> leak? hog? something-- which saddens me, because it makes me feel >> like I'm using Mozilla again, which had these kinds of problems for >> a long, long time. Firefox was a b

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-17 Thread Jonathan Wright
Holly Bostick wrote: Firefox itself has any issues, but it does seem to have a memory leak? hog? something-- which saddens me, because it makes me feel like I'm using Mozilla again, which had these kinds of problems for a long, long time. Firefox was a big relief because it *didn't* have 'that da

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-16 Thread Holly Bostick
Jonathan Wright schreef: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> I may have misconfigured it early on. Is there something in >> particular I should look for? > > > I know there used to be issues with firefox where it had difficulty > releasing memory when you have had a large number of tabs running. > Th

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
On 9/16/05, Jonathan Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kevin O'Gorman wrote:> I may have misconfigured it early on.  Is there something in particular> I should look for?I know there used to be issues with firefox where it had difficultyreleasing memory when you have had a large number of tabs runni

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-16 Thread Jonathan Wright
Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > I may have misconfigured it early on. Is there something in particular > I should look for? I know there used to be issues with firefox where it had difficulty releasing memory when you have had a large number of tabs running. The only way to release it is to shut down fir

Re: [gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On 9/16/05, Kevin O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought firefox would become a good citizen, given adequate time, > but I still have to kill it off every day or so even on my dual Xeon with > 2 GB memory -- it's just a huge CPU hog after a while. It restarts > okay, but it's a nuisanc

[gentoo-user] What to do about firefox

2005-09-16 Thread Kevin O'Gorman
I thought firefox would become a good citizen, given adequate time, but I still have to kill it off every day or so even on my dual Xeon with 2 GB memory -- it's just a huge CPU hog after a while.  It restarts okay, but it's a nuisance.  I've waited over a year hoping the updated versions would beh