Anthony A

Where did you get your FF3 RC3 with extensions? It was not an official release from Mozilla because they do not come with extensions. Some installs have the Talk Back and DOM Inspector Extension but that depends on if you do a custom or default install.

Both my laptops are on Wireless and this is not an issue for me. Like I said I use it about 20 times a day. It would be foolish and a waste of time for me to shut off my laptops every time I wanted to stop using them. I am in and out of them all day long so I just shut the lid and it goes into Standby. I can only assume there is something wrong with people's set ups if this is a problem for you. I have had other laptops and they didn't have a problem either.

It is faster in every way. It loads on launch faster. It loads pages faster. The responsiveness of the GUI is faster. The whole experience of using the browser is faster. This is done to confuse the issue. The strength of Firefox is it's extensions. The extensions are also Firefox's week spot. Every one you add bloats it. The funny thing is that Firefox is already bloated in it's default form. The download is like 25 MB. Opera in the Clssic installer is less than 5MB. If you added all the extensions you would need in Firefox to equal Opera's default functionality you would need probably 50 extensions. I don't know of a single Firefox user that uses it in default form. I also seriously doubt that any of the Firefox fanboys on this forum or any other for that matter would use it if they couldn't add extensions to it because it's basically useless with out them. They would all be jumping to Opera because it already has most features they are adding to Firefox with extensions.

On the other side of this I use Stand Buy probably 20 times a day on my laptops and have never had an issue in 3 years. I reboot them about once a week the rest of the time I close the lid and it goes into Stand By.

A little bit but not much more for me. There are people on the forums complaining that it uses a lot of RAM though.

I also have Maxthon 1 installed along with Maxthon 2.

I was thinking it is funny. My spelling is not perfect by any means but most times it's a typo from hitting the wrong key. These clowns were not typing. They were painting a road. They also misspelled a very simple word. They must have been under the influence

Those guys on the crew where probably wasted or worse

Thats why I started the thread. I noticed them being listed to be cleaned and I never seen them there before. I'm not sure what is happening but when I clean Opera 9.5 with CCleaner and than launch Opera I get a blank screen with just a title bar. I have to close Opera and restart it and then it looks fine and works fine.

CCleaner does clean 9.5. I have 9.5 installed and Opera checked and it detects the files and lists them to be cleaned. My screen shot shows that clearly. The location you are talking about is for Opera installs that are for multiple users. If you use the Opera classic installer you have the option of installing Opera for single users and when you do this the cache and profile are not located in c/docs&settings folder. They are in the c/program files/opera/profile folder as my screen shot also shows.

That's because I am using the WMP 11 skin This is the default skin. There are many to chose from. You can get them from the Maxthon addon site.

I don't see the naked chicks! I got ripped off

Maxthon 2 I like very much.

Hey you have automatic updates set to off. Go stand in the corner

That looks like a clean interface. That's not the default one that looks like a little blob of a media player so what is it? Is that a skin or a built in option?

Well all I have ever ran is the resident shield to give me real time protection. I have always shut off the email scanner because I use Gmail and it's scanned by them besides I am not going to open an attachment from some one I don't know and if I did and it was infected the resident shield would get it. I don't see the need for the web mail shield for the reasons I just stated. The IM shield again I see no use for. The other shields like P2P I would not need either. So If I set Avast to just have the resident shield it looks like it would be very lite.

That's what I was asking. Those shields don't have to run.

I would assume some of those Avast processes can be disabled if wanted? Are some of those the shields Avast is famous for? Even as it is there in your screen shot it's much lighter than AVG 8. I have never seen Opera get that high in Memory use. I set the memory cache in Opera settings to 60 MB and it keeps memory use low and I notice no problems what so ever. The default setting is "automatic" and when set to that it determines how much RAM it will use based on the amount of RAM you have installed.

The thing with Opera is that it's not a browser for beginners or lazy people. It requires much configuration to get it where I want it. FireFox is stupid simple. It's default install is about as basic as a browser can be. Than you find an extension and click "install". Not much to it really. Opera and Maxthon 2 come with so much more than FireFox you need to spend some time to learn them. You are not going to do that if you just want to get to your porn sites in a hurry. So you use the POS that comes with Windows (IE) or you jump on the band wagon and use Firefox because you hear it's the "cool" browser.

You still see pieces of Bitdefender in Process Explorer? Process Explorer shows you the running processes on your machine. If you removed Bitdefender you shouldn't have any of it's processes running.

Dennis, how many processes does Avast have running and how much RAM is it using? With AntiVIr I have 3 processes running and 11MB of RAM being used. Not as good as AVG 7.5 where I have less than 2 MB of RAM being used but a lot better tha AVG 8 which uses about 75-90 MB of RAM.

Yes it is very nice being able to do that. Now keep a back up of your profile some where safe and back it up regularly. I would freak if I had to start from scratch. I have HEAVILY tweaked Opera and it would take me for ever to set it up from scratch.

Opera 9.5 final installs in a separate directory from the beta. It actually installs were 9.27 is if you have it installed. Opera is probably the easiest browser to transfer your settings to a clean install. Took me about 2 min. Everything you will need will be in your profile. Just install 9.5 final and transfer your info over to it from 9.5 beta 2. You can uninstall Beta 2 if you want to. Here is a very easy tutorial on what and how to transfer settings. Explains what files and folders and where they are. http://my.opera.com/neeraj_deshmukh/blog/show.dml/6579

Dennis I didn't find Opera 9.27 to be very fast. It's feature rich and smooth but I never considered it fast. It wasn't until I put in Opera 9.5 Beta 2 that I really fully switched to Opera. It is incredibly fast for me plus has all the features and more that 9.27 has. So I'm not surprised you don't find 9.27 faster than FF.

No I don't have it open when I run CCleaner. I also have Opera set to empty it's cache and Cookies on close so that's why there is very little in that screen shot for CCleaner to clean.