Konqueror vs Firefox

[David Boles]

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Tim wrote:
| Tim:
|>> While it's not open-source, I have a slight preference for Opera over
|>> Firefox.  I find Firefox's propensity for jamming up and refusing you to
|>> let you do anything while some tabbed content is downloading, or
|>> rendering, to be extremely annoying.  e.g. You're reading some page,
|>> middle click on a link to load it up in the background in another tab,
|>> and while that's happening you're stuck, unable to scroll through the
|>> thing you were currently reading.
|
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| David Boles:
|> Loading a single page from a link on a page stops you from scrolling
|> down and continuing to read the first page?
|
| No, not always.  But it's a common occurrence.  It's worse on complex
| pages, but not restricted to them.
|
|> You need to look at your system Tim. You have something very wrong.
|
| No, it's not my system.  It's Firefox.  It's done this for years, on
| Windows, on Linux, on any computer that I've ever tried it on.  Pristine
| ones, updated ones, etc.  Over-specified systems, for web browsing, with
| 1.6 GHz dual core CPUs, etc.  It's quite clear that Firefox doesn't
| internally multi-task very well.
|
| Try http://www.news.com.au/ as a bad example site.  Load it up,
| background load in a tab two or more articles, you'll soon find it
| jamming up.
|
| Opera does it there, to some degree, too.  But nowhere near as bad as
| Firefox does.
|


I tried your site and loaded "Soldier, militants killed in Gaza" and then
loaded the forty cartoons that I mentioned. I scrolled up and down the
whole time that the forty sites were loading without any problems. I
picked a URL from the page and reloaded all tabs. That would be forty-two
pages. Still no problem scrolling up and down on the original page.

I am not doubting what you say  ;-)  but I don't see this problem here.

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~  David
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