>>Now this confuses me. FF just did a s/w update on my puter, yesterday, and now I'm on v 2.0.0.15 . So how come it didn't upgrade me to 3? Or is that a version you have to pay for or summat? In any case, I've not seen any ad or banner urging me to upgrade.
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>>FWIW FF rarely crashes on me but I was driven to distraction with IE.
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>I think you have to pro-actively go get FF 3.0. It's still free and is probably worth doing if you open a lot of tabs as the memory is handled better and released better.

Funny. I've now done that and FF seems to be slower, sluggisher, and has crashed on me several times now"


BTW been meaning to ask: When downloading a file, and the "open with" dialogue comes up, there's a checkbox, like "Do this with all similar files in future". I have that set, but the dialogue STILL comes up each time. Anyone else have this problem or know what to do about it?



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>>>Firefox 3.0 seems to have solved some of the memory stuff, but now the problem is with DEP in Vista. Evidentally it must be turned on for FF for it to run but especially mulit-media addins seem to crash it pretty regularly (though it is impressive how well FF can recover from a crash and bring up exactly what you had open when it went boom)
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>>>>>Arrrg! I just can't take it anymore. IE crashed on my over and over all day again. Clear the cache, logoff, reboot. blah blah blah. Stupid thing keeps freezing - eatting up 100+mb of memory, I just can't take it anymore! Been going on for months on serveral machines.
>>>>>Firefox is getting installed tonight on all my machines.
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>>>>Hmmm
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>>>>my firefox locks out fairly frequently so I don't think you can be sure that will be the end of your problems. Also I currently have 4 tabs open and am using 148 Mb memory.
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>>>>Nick