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Thread Number: 75813
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Five Firefoxes To View One Site? Why? |
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Post# 996462 6/7/2018 at 11:42 (2,149 days old) by RP2813  (Sannazay) |
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 I'm ready to bail on Firefox. The only reason I've been hesitating is because Pale Moon will require some work with regard to bookmarks, etc. and also appears not to offer a "back" button (not a huge issue, but still) so I haven't made it my default -- yet.
Still, I'm curious as to why Firefox finds it necessary to run five identical applications that seriously bog down my PC. Is there any work-around for this? I'm running Windows 10.
Thanks for any information. This post was last edited 06/07/2018 at 14:26 | ||
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Post# 996509 , Reply# 2 6/7/2018 at 19:18 (2,148 days old) by RP2813 (Sannazay) |
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| Post# 996516 , Reply# 3 6/7/2018 at 20:49 (2,148 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room) | ||
 I used to like Opera. It was fast, even on old hardware. But they changed technology. It's now (basically) related to Google Chrome. At one point, it seemed like it might have been marginally faster than Chromium (basically open source version of Google Chrome)...but nothing like it once was. The thing that finally made me decide to pull the plug on Opera was the sale of Opera to Chinese investors. | ||
| Post# 996518 , Reply# 4 6/7/2018 at 20:58 (2,148 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room) | ||
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Post# 996519 , Reply# 5 6/7/2018 at 21:03 (2,148 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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| Post# 996520 , Reply# 6 6/7/2018 at 21:03 (2,148 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room) | ||
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appears not to offer a "back" button | ||
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Post# 996522 , Reply# 7 6/7/2018 at 21:10 (2,148 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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Well, I just installed Opera and the whirring really cranked up as soon as I came here. I checked task manager and it showed 8 Operas running.
I know this PC is on its last legs. It's 11 years old. I'm planning to replace it with a laptop. This thing was only supposed to be temporary, but I've been using it for a few years now. I don't know if the PC is to blame, though. Pale Moon seems to behave normally per task manager. It might be my best bet. I'm sure there's a way to make the back button and other things display if I fumble my way through it. The Chinese investor thing is another reason to give Pale Moon another go. | ||
| Post# 996525 , Reply# 8 6/7/2018 at 21:29 (2,148 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room) | ||
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Post# 996530 , Reply# 9 6/7/2018 at 22:20 (2,148 days old) by RP2813 (Sannazay) |
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Pale Moon seems to be the best option. No high speed whirring when I use it, and no multiple presences either. I uninstalled Opera. Those giant red O's were unsightly. I can't use the current version of g-mail though, because PM doesn't support it. The retro version is fine with me. Just mail and not so much BS.
I still can't figure out how to get the forward and back arrows to display in PM. Any ideas? | ||
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Post# 996532 , Reply# 10 6/7/2018 at 22:29 (2,148 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Post# 996535 , Reply# 11 6/7/2018 at 23:40 (2,148 days old) by MattL (Flushing, MI) |
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I've been using Pale Moon for years, there certainly is a back button, not sure what is going on with your install. | ||
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Post# 996536 , Reply# 12 6/8/2018 at 00:39 (2,148 days old) by RP2813 (Sannazay) |
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Forward/Back | ||
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Post# 996539 , Reply# 13 6/8/2018 at 01:50 (2,148 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Anyone Using AOL, Verizon, Yahoo or Oath 
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Post# 996573 , Reply# 15 6/8/2018 at 13:21 (2,148 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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Well . . . I'm finding Pale Moon is having trouble rendering proper images. I was searching for something on Home Depot's site and the display was FUBAR. Literally. Copy was overlaid and illegible. No way to navigate through any of it. Reloading didn't help.
This morning I pulled up my local Nextdoor board and the posts were all shadowed in grey. I clicked to view previous replies to the top discussion and ended up with images of mason jars for sale. Reloading didn't help.
Maybe I need to find an update for PM? I suspect PM is lagging behind the latest MS update from last week, which created a similar overlay problem with my Windows Live Mail program, which also has copy scrunched together and on its side, blocking the status bar and other things. I'm starting to think it's my PC that's unable to manage the weight of so many major updates to Windows 10.
So now I'm using Edge, and it seems to be the worst of the bunch for slowing things down.
I don't dare attempt a switch to Linux. I know that's just asking for trouble and ending up in safe mode or down some other rabbit hole. | ||
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Post# 996887 , Reply# 16 6/11/2018 at 19:39 (2,144 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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While Not Looking Forward To
Never the less it seems will have to find either a second browser and or make a switch away from IE11. So many changes of late for security and other reasons generating "you are using an outdated browser" message. That and or sites do not operate correctly.
Can only reply to CL listings by going to Kinkos and using either Chrome or Firefox. Downloaded Chrome once a few years ago; and quickly got rid of the thing. Wasn't a fan of Google's tentacles weaving themselves into nearly every aspect of my computer. Mozilla seems to be ranked highest among current browser offerings: www.techradar.com/news/th... | ||
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Post# 996897 , Reply# 17 6/11/2018 at 20:06 (2,144 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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Five Firefoxes ... presumably refers to multiple instances of firefox.exe in Task Manager. I typically have four to six instances. Firefox runs multiple processes to separate internal functions such as plug-ins, scripts, and media content, and even individual tabs, to help avoid one such process crashing or freezing from affecting all of it. Security concerns may also be involved. Wondering about multiple processes running simultaneously Firefox's performance settings (UNcheck "Use recommended performance settings") There are some references to some version/builds, including Quantum, purposely not recognizing adjustments on the "Content process limit" parameter. | ||
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Post# 996918 , Reply# 18 6/11/2018 at 23:40 (2,144 days old) by RP2813 (Sannazay) |
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| Post# 996926 , Reply# 19 6/12/2018 at 01:53 (2,144 days old) by speedqueen (Metro-Detroit) | ||
 Don't chuck it just yet, you can try one more thing, if Edge was an option you must have Windows 10, while this may seem ridiculous, try Internet Explorer, despite M$'s marketing, IE is still there for corporate compatibility, just click the start button and type "internet explorer" and you will find it.
There is always K-Meleon, too, which is an older firefox engine based browser that is quite light and very customizable.
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| Post# 996927 , Reply# 20 6/12/2018 at 02:03 (2,144 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room) | ||
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I vaguely recall playing with K-Meleon once. I seem to recall a positive impression. That said...I do have one concern today: the stable release is apparently 2+ years old. I am a believer in having a web browser that is very actively supported, as tiresome as updates can be. This means security issues will likely be addressed sooner rather than later. | ||
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