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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 13/08/2015 16:14, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:43:57 +0100 (BST) > Gordon Henderson <gordon+lug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello Gordon, > >> Thanks. > > NP. > >> I've no idea what they are - or had no idea. I've no idea why Mozilla >> things they're a good idea. > > Likewise. I couldn't even be bothered to find out too much about them ; > I just noticed an icon in the url bar that I didn't recognise, and > wondered what it was for. A quick search of the 'net came back with > results that boiled down to 'resource hogs'. Still using a five y/o > dual core machine here and not too much RAM either. CPU cycles count > for something here. > >> It was getting to the point where it was stalling ever few words I wa s >> typing into stupid web forms )-: > > I know how bloody frustrating that can be - think you've missed out a > few chars, then the buffer dumps a load of cack into the text gadget. > Grrrrr..... > >> I guess the old idea of one program to do one thing and do it well ha s >> well and truly gone out of the window... > > Depends on how you define 'do one thing', I suppose. One /could/ argu e > that "the internet" is one thing and Ff should handle it all. Like yo u, > I don't belong to that school of thought. > uMM! I always do banking (or credit card buying) on a LIVE Linux, Knoppix with their "demozilla-branded" older FF version. Works well with two UK banks and German bank sites. - -- regards Eion MacDonald -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iEYEARECAAYFAlXMzskACgkQI6BLiyvmlQmZegCggCUbETh+YbdTScpkzFcjytaE OV0AoNAdRGVco8B68YCP63feEyLpvuGW =oP+6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq