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Thread Author: scousehonda Replies: 14

 Firefox v Internet Explorer - scousehonda
I don't know whether it is just my PC playing up but, as a committed fan of Firefox as my default browser I have had much inconvenience over this past weekend. My system has been painfully slow and the fan(s) in the box of tricks has (have) been working overtime. I had a look at the Task Manager a couple of times and the CPU usage was 100% for much of the time (I understand that, ideally, it should hover around 0 - 5%).

This afternoon I decided to give Internet Explorer another try and, lo and behold, everything was wonderful again. The system was lightning fast and the CPU reading was 2-3%.

Is it likely to be a problem with Firefox (in which case presumably others will have had similar problems) or is just that my Dell desktop is no longer able to handle Firefox as opposed to Internet Explorer?
 Messages Author Date
 Firefox v Internet Explorer new scousehonda 29 Mar 10 20:32
 Firefox v Internet Explorer new Manatee 29 Mar 10 20:45
 Firefox v Internet Explorer new Focusless 29 Mar 10 20:49
 Firefox v Internet Explorer new Focusless 29 Mar 10 20:53
 Firefox v Internet Explorer new Manatee 29 Mar 10 21:46
 Firefox v Internet Explorer new scousehonda 29 Mar 10 22:03
 Firefox v Internet Explorer new Zero 29 Mar 10 22:06
 Firefox v Internet Explorer new Manatee 29 Mar 10 22:20
 Firefox v Internet Explorer new Zero 29 Mar 10 22:30
 Firefox v Internet Explorer new Focusless 29 Mar 10 22:41
 Firefox v Internet Explorer new lancara 29 Mar 10 22:07
 Firefox v Internet Explorer new Roger. 2 Apr 10 18:43
 Firefox v Internet Explorer new MD 2 Apr 10 19:38
 Firefox v Internet Explorer new Stuartli 3 Apr 10 20:24
 Firefox v Internet Explorer new merlin 3 Apr 10 22:42
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