Re: Firefox problems related to WinXP?

de John Corliss 04/08/2006 02:47

The Six Million Dollar Man wrote:
> none wrote:
>> I had never had any problem with Firefox, and had never used WinXP
>> until I bought a computer with it installed. Suddenly, I was having
>> all the problems that many users report - slow loads, memory leaks,
>> using over 100 MB of RAM, crashes, etc.
>>
>> I wiped the drive and installed W2K - and Firefox is a joy to use once
>> again.
>>
>> Is Bill Gates low enough to stoop to writing the OS so it will cripple
>> a browser he's afraid of? Naw, he wouldn't do that, would he?..........
>
> That would be a neat trick for Windows XP since it came out a couple of
> years before Firefox.

Don't forget all the updates XP has had. Theoretically, the code in any
one of them could cause problems with Firefox.

> I use Firefox on Windows XP Home with none of the above problems.
> Perhaps try installing the necessary service packs and critical updates,
> and see if this improves your experience.

I'm also using it with XP Home SP2 and it starts very slowly. MUCH more
slowly than it did with Millennium Edition. However, I've experienced no
memory leak, crashes or resource useage problems.

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