I'm glad to hear that you are testing the waters. I know that Firefox does take its time on certain pages just as IE does.
I am forced to use IE at work. What I can't figure out is why when I click on the stop button because I'm tired of waiting on a page that the page I'm still viewing disappears. The whole point of the stop button is to keep me where I am especially when there's no transition taking place.
The only time that I've gotten the spell checker in Opera to work is when I was running on Ubuntu...I've went back and forth on this issue. I like how Opera keeps the spell check as a separate entity, thus holding to the Unix principal of a tool does one thing and does it well. Of course, when you consider that Opera will act as a POP/IMAP client, an news/RSS reader, an IRC client, a Bit Torrent client and can be voice activated, I don't get why they don't just include the spell checker. Maybe it's the spell checker that is making Firefox slow.
What you're going to find with Windows is that the only thing that will make the OS work faster is if you perform a serious upgrade to all your hardware. What I mean is replace the mobo, processor and buy more and faster memory. Of course, having a nice snappy drive helps too, but as SCSI is extinct on the desktop...
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I am forced to use IE at work. What I can't figure out is why when I click on the stop button because I'm tired of waiting on a page that the page I'm still viewing disappears. The whole point of the stop button is to keep me where I am especially when there's no transition taking place.
The only time that I've gotten the spell checker in Opera to work is when I was running on Ubuntu...I've went back and forth on this issue. I like how Opera keeps the spell check as a separate entity, thus holding to the Unix principal of a tool does one thing and does it well. Of course, when you consider that Opera will act as a POP/IMAP client, an news/RSS reader, an IRC client, a Bit Torrent client and can be voice activated, I don't get why they don't just include the spell checker. Maybe it's the spell checker that is making Firefox slow.
What you're going to find with Windows is that the only thing that will make the OS work faster is if you perform a serious upgrade to all your hardware. What I mean is replace the mobo, processor and buy more and faster memory. Of course, having a nice snappy drive helps too, but as SCSI is extinct on the desktop...