Konqueror vs Firefox

[David Boles]

Steve Lindemann wrote:
> David Boles wrote:
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>> Steve Lindemann wrote:
>> | David Boles wrote:
>> |> 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.
>> |>
>> |
>> | Please don't doubt him... he isn't the only one seeing a problem.  I've
>> | had the same issue across multiple windows and linux platforms.  If
>> | something hangs during the page load, nothing else in Firefox will work
>> | until that page finally finishes or starts loading more or less
>> | normally.  While the page is loading the problem is considerably less
>> | noticable, but if one page load hangs up in the least little way, then
>> | the whole application hangs...  Firefox is still my browser of choice,
>> | but that little quirk is more than a bit annoying.
>>
>> I was serious. I do not see what he described or what you say that you
>> also have here.
>>
>> So let us compare situations. If you give me some examples I would be 
>> more
>> that happy to compare results.
>>
>> There is a possibility that I just thought of and that would be
>> advertisements and Flash.
>>
>> I use the extension named Adblock Plus. It blocks ads on web pages. I 
>> also
>> use Flash Block which is user configurable to allow or block Flash by
>> site. Do you?
> 
> good point...  I add a number of extensions that could be in play here 
> (from my work desktop):
>   adblock
>   adblock filterset.g updater
>   febe
>   firebug
>   ie tab           (m$ only)
>   image zoom
>   noscript
>   tab mix plus
> 
> The extensions installed can vary between platforms, but those are what 
> I usually add on.  I also use greasemonkey (for mediawiki) but saw the 
> problem before I started using it.
> 
> I wish I could provide an example of the problem, but I see it randomly 
> and (thankfully) infrequently.
> 
> As for the original question - I'd vote for Firefox over Konqueror.  But 
> that is strickly personal opinion, it suites me.  I don't have hard 
> facts or objective opinion in this case, just subjective preference. 
> ...and when you get right down to it, that's usually what it boils down 
> to.  8^)


Like you I use more extensions than the two that I mentioned. I only
mentioned those two because I thought that they might actually pertain to
the problem that some appear to be having Firefox.

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   David