PCWorld Dubs Firefox Best Product of 2005

Peaceful_Patriot writes "PCWorld's list of the 'Best Products of 2005' is out and Firefox tops the list. Also notables are GMail at number 2, Apple OS X, Tiger at number 3, Skype ranks in at 8 and Ubuntu at 26!" From their Firefox article: "Are you sick and tired of Internet Explorer? Have you grown weary of the constant vulnerabilities and patches? Do you scratch your head at sudden program lockups and crashes? Are you dismayed that Microsoft hasn't lifted a finger to improve or enhance IE since it buried Netscape's Navigator browser at the dawn of the century? Yeah, me too."

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firefox ? WTF

[parasite]

If the guys would consider, even CONSIDER putting Firefox in the top 10, I guess they are too much of PRICKS to realize that (1) there are SOME people who view graphic files in their webbrowser [ones imbedded in html pages] (2) there are SOME people who use language other than English...

Can fuckwad Firefox handle either one ? HELL NO. Don't believe me ?

(1) Try viewing a web BBS which has maybe 5-10 50-100k jpegs per message. The only efficient way is to open maybe 5-10 tabs of message you want to read, and then flip through them... Well this turns out not to be so efficient after about the THIRD TIME when Firefox eats a whole through your entire system memory and your system grinds to a hault.

(2) Try dealing with ANY FILES which are ANYWHERE in a directory path which has a SINGLE Non-English language word anywhere in that path. Yeah, doesn't fucking work. I just LOVE having to COPY files around and rename them everytime I want to submit them in a webmail or in POS Thunderbird to attach to email. You guys are real fags.

Re:firefox ? WTF

[Anonymous Coward]

> eats a whole through your entire system memory

Agreed. There's no excuse for the memory that Firefox consumes. My Windows system with 2Gbytes of RAM swaps continuously when I use Firefox. I have to use it to view a couple of 200Mbyte reports for work, and Firefox doesn't handle them gracefully at all. It also doesn't return the memory back to the system after you leave the page. You have to quit Firefox. MSIE doesn't have any of those problems, but the company requires Firefox so I have to use it in order to be able to login to some corp sites.

It's still better than Thunderturd. With ~10k messages in my Inbox (I answer e-mail for a living so that's a typical week), Thunderbird uses over half a gig of RAM. Outlook Express was much better, but the anti-spam filter in Thunderbird is so good I continue to use it even though it's painful.

Sluggish, Memory Hog....

[Albert71292]

If you like a browser that sucks memory, and slow to load pages, then Firefox is the browser for you... if you like fast browsing, with less of a "footprint" on your hard drive, then Opera is the browser for you :-)