[dba-Tech] Opera memory usage

I have not loaded any skin for firefox.  The toolbar shows a back, next,
reload, stop, home, and open new window button.  Then the address combo,
then the google search.

I can find a bookmark manager which shows a tree structure, but it doesn't
appear to dock anywhere.

In fact I just right clicked the toolbar and found a customize menu item,
which does hold such a button.  I dragged and dropped it to the bar, pressed
it and I now have the pane we are discussing.

Thanks for that.  Now, is there a username/password wand anywhere?  If I
open a site with a username / password, firefox will offer to fill in the
data, but if I log out but leave the tab open, I need a tool to re-enter the
data to log back in.

John W. Colby
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Francisco H
Tapia
Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2004 1:33 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Opera memory usage


in firefox ver .9.2:
The treeview bookmark window on the left hand side is a feature of 
Firefox, it doesn't automatically open up, but once you do, it is always 
on until you close it, so your screen would be slated into 2 portions, 
the left bookmark side and the right browser page.  I'm surprised you 
hadn't seen this before,  Using the default firefox skin, the button you 
want to click is to the right of the "Next" arrow button (points 
right).  it looks like a page w/ a bookmark on it, click it once and it 
opens up this treeview interface you were talking about.



John W. Colby wrote On 7/28/2004 7:57 AM:

>Francisco,
>
>You are correct, FireFox seems to handle this stuff way bettered than 
>Opera does.  I had Opera up to 120mb this morning, just from some 
>browsing I was doing last night.  Opera does continue to climb as you 
>load the same page over and over.  For example I use web banking.  As I 
>load that page the memory grows.  Go into a menu the memory grows, go 
>back to the main summary page, the memory grows etc.
>
>Firefox does NOT do that, and in fact (I tested this) on my machine 
>simply stops growing at all at about 57mb of total memory use.  That in 
>and of itself is a huge reason to select Firefox over Opera.  I must 
>say at the moment I prefer Opera's user interface over Firefox.  I like 
>the persistent bookmarks window that you can open off to the left hand 
>side that provides an "always visible" tree of bookmark folders.  Of 
>course I have a new laptop with a 1200x800 screen with extra width to 
>use this feature.  It would probably not be as useful at the normal CRT 
>screen resolutions.
>
>I also like the wand that allows me to record username / password for a 
>given page and just click the button to apply them.  In the end though, 
>a browser has to be a little thriftier with memory.  One of many 
>reasons I started looking for an alternative to IE was the fact that 
>I'd have 3 or 4 copies of IE open, each using 30-40 mb or RAM.  That's 
>just ridiculous. Opera using 120mb is ridiculous as well.  If I could 
>figure out how to cap its memory usage I'd probably stick with it.  If 
>I can't I will likely move on to Firefox and get used to its user 
>interface.
>
>John W. Colby
>www.ColbyConsulting.com
>