Francisco H Tapia
my.lists at verizon.net
Wed Jul 28 17:39:16 CDT 2004
perhaps what you are looking for is in some sort of .xpi addin? i'll keep my eye opened for such a tool John W. Colby wrote On 7/28/2004 10:50 AM: >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 >> >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >dba-Tech mailing list >dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -- -Francisco