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Re:Ask YC: Is Internet Slowing down? by gibsonf1 on Friday March 14, 2008 @12:37AM (#136569)
Are you using the Firefox Beta? I've had serious problems with the beta on my machine (to the extent of 100% cpu usage on a dual core when running a BIM pacakage at the same time.) The internet is now a whole lot faster with Safari, I must say (running on XP).
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Re:Ask YC: Is Internet Slowing down? by tx on Friday March 14, 2008 @01:24AM (#136582)
No, I'm on FF 2.0 (Windows|Linux) and on Safari when I'm on a Mac. However, FireFox, especially when paired with Flash, is a topic for another discussion: my CPU utulization sometimes jumps to 100% when I simply switch tabs in it.

Actually I am finding more and more often that I DONT want to use a "web app", but want a slick and fast desktop option instead, I started thinking that almost immediately after I left Windows behind (Leopard or Ubuntu now)

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Re:Ask YC: Is Internet Slowing down? by gibsonf1 on Friday March 14, 2008 @01:32AM (#136589)
FF 2.0 was even worse for me with the extreme memory leak when using google apps. Safari so far is blazing fast (on windows)
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