Firebird, the CPU drainer?

[hbdragon88]

I downloaded Firebird. I changed the skin from "Modern" to "Breeze". And what happens? Firebird kills my computer, nearly freezes it. I checked out the Windows Task Manager and was shocked to see this:

Does Firebird not handle skins well? Because I had to change it to the ugly "Modern" skin so it would not kill my computer.

 

[Goober]

I have the same problem, except mine is with "explorer.exe" gobbling up all my RAM. I do not know the answer to your problem, all I know is that the regular Mozilla works fine for me, and I am having issues with "explorer.exe". I just shut it down, and restart it, without restarting the computer. Odd the way that that works.

 

[Plexus]

F-I-R-E-F-O-X:

Running the iCandyJunior skin, two tabs and several plugins.

 

[Toasty]

S-A-F-A-R-I

 

[funxus]

FireFox uses twice as much memory as any other program running, but not very much of the processor time. I don't use a skin though...

 

[GrandAdmiral]

I had a similar problem when I used an extension for IE that allowed me to change skins. My solution was to not use it.

 

[IglooDame]

Originally posted by Plexus
F-I-R-E-F-O-X:

Firebird is the (IIRC) .7 version, Firefox is the latest version.

 

[Ankka]

Originally posted by GrandAdmiral
I had a similar problem when I used an extension for IE that allowed me to change skins. My solution was to not use it.

Firefox doesn't need a different program to change the skin, the program can AFAIK do it by itself.

 

[GrandAdmiral]

Yes I know thats why I said it was a similar problem. I thought it was interesting that both programs had the same problem because I assumed the reason it happened in IE was because it was a poor extension. Then it happens in a browser with built in skin ability. So as a temporary fix you can go without skins in either case.

 

[Ankka]

I don't think the Firefox skinless is really that bad, compared to actually any other browser, the outlook is really neat.

 

[funxus]

Compared to Firebird, Opera graphics are really ugly, and I used to think they were good. It beats IE as well...

 

[hbdragon88]

Yeah. Well I do think that the Opera original skin was ugly. Now I use the Minimalist-Flat skin. But that doesn't suck up my CPU, at least...

 

[Archer 007]

Just use Opera!

 

[hbdragon88]

Originally posted by Archer 007
Just use Opera!

I do use Opera, I was just giving Firebird a spin and found to my digust how much resources it was taking - it was freezing up my computer.

 

[Plexus]

Originally posted by IglooDude


Firebird is the (IIRC) .7 version, Firefox is the latest version.

But version 0.8 of the Pheonix/Firebird/Firefox browser is streamlined and has more features.

 

[FireBall]

The full version of Mozilla is much worse...

Mozilla and all mozilla-based browsers do take up a lot of CPU power, actually, all browsers do, especially at startup, MSIE isn't as noticable though because it's always running behind windows, though you don't see it, chances are, it's there.

 

[sebanaj]

Use Netscape, everything works.

 

[Archer 007]

Originally posted by funxus
Compared to Firebird, Opera graphics are really ugly, and I used to think they were good. It beats IE as well...

Firefox looks horrible compared to Opera.

 

[sebanaj]

I don't like Opera, pages look different, etc. There are some things that it can't show without screwing up.
Netscape does perfect for me. Explorer is awful in terms of security, virus, pop-upsm downloads and java; so it can't do anything right.

 

[kundor]

Originally posted by Archer 007


Firefox looks horrible compared to Opera.

A matter of taste. I happen to think that Opera 7 is pretty ugly. But to each his own.

sebanaj: Firefox is essentially the latest version of netscape, you know, only streamlined and generally better.