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Tried Phoenix, going back to IE

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Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
I just did a quick comparison for myself because the memory gripe always bugs me. I have 12 tabs open between two phoenix windows. It is taking about 38mB of memory as reported by task manager. I have had these windows open since atleast Friday evening.

I opened these 12 sites in IE windows (which was quite messy on my desktop and impossible to manage on the task bar I might add). They took roughly 27mB of ram. If you are scraping the bottom of the barrel to the point that 10mB of ram makes *that* much of a difference, get a new computer or get a better job so you can afford a better computer. Plus, those ie windows were fresh and unused, while, like I said, the Phoenix windows have been open since late Friday at the latest.
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12 tabs between 2 windows is only taken up 26MB here, on Phoenix.
 
Originally posted by: RgrPark
i tried opera and a whole bunch of pop ups got through...not good. I liked how you can have multiple windows though...
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That problem doesn't occur at all anymore in Opera 7.x. It has a "open requested pop-ups only" option that only pops up a window specifically when you request it to (by clicking on a link). Of course, you can still have it configured as "no pop-ups" which suppresses even requested ones, if you so desire. The 7.x series has really stepped up a lot in terms of functionality and usability.
 
Originally posted by: Hubris
I didn't like Phoenix mainly because I couldn't get the Favorites menu to show up on the left side. I've gotten used to it there.

I used Opera for a while, but really, IE is just a lot more convenient and Opera doesn't do anything IE can't, in my experience.

I'm using Avant Browser right now, which is just IE in a tabbed format. I like it a hell of a lot.
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Ditto. I love tabs which I believe you can add to IE, but Avant has a couple things I like such as deleting typed urls, built-in pop-up blocker (could use 3rd party blocker w/IE), html editor, etc.

I used Crazy Browser for a while but it crashed once in a while, Avant is better except I've seen the odd pop-up that I never got with CB.
I currently have IE6, Avant, Crazy, and Mozilla installed. I will not pay for a browser considering what's available for free.


 
Originally posted by: goog
Originally posted by: Hubris
I didn't like Phoenix mainly because I couldn't get the Favorites menu to show up on the left side. I've gotten used to it there.

I used Opera for a while, but really, IE is just a lot more convenient and Opera doesn't do anything IE can't, in my experience.

I'm using Avant Browser right now, which is just IE in a tabbed format. I like it a hell of a lot.
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Ditto. I love tabs which I believe you can add to IE, but Avant has a couple things I like such as deleting typed urls, built-in pop-up blocker (could use 3rd party blocker w/IE), html editor, etc.

I used Crazy Browser for a while but it crashed once in a while, Avant is better except I've seen the odd pop-up that I never got with CB.
I currently have IE6, Avant, Crazy, and Mozilla installed. I will not pay for a browser considering what's available for free.
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hmmm....tabs are why i keep phoenix around, the only reason i think. never heard of this avant...have to try it /me googles
 
I currently use Opera and think it's definitely the best browser because it has tabbed browsing and mouse gestures built in. These two features have become must haves for me. I hate going on someone else's computer and not being able to use tabbed browsing and mouse gestures, it feels so... castrated 🙂
 
I tried Phoenix as well, and I'm back to IE. I've also tried Opera and Mozilla as well, but IE seems to work the best for me.
 
I tried Phoenix, and went back to Mozilla. It was probably just that Phoenix (at the time, anyway) lacked a few small features that are very important to me, so it didn't "feel" right. 😕
 
Opera 7 is the best browser out there. Its very fast, has mouse gestures, tabbed interface...what more could you ask for?
 
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