Firefox annoyance
Something that I dislike about firefox, is that each window does not
start its own process. If you have 3 internet explorer windows
open, you can look in the task manager and see 3 “iexplore.exe”
processes running, but with firefox, there is only the 1 process
running. This sucks when you hang your browser and you go to end
the process, you’d think that your other windows are safe, but once you
end that process, all your windows are gone. Its just a little
annoying, especially coming from using internet explorer where that
situation would have worked out perfectly.
Anonymous said,
Wrote on May 2, 2005 @ 8:34 am
Hate to break it to you, but even if IE is running with multiple processes, one crash brings down EVERY instance (at least in all my experiences with IE).
I’ve just accepted it as a s standard “non-documented feature” for web browsers in general. Maybe this will be minimized with dual-core processors are main stream and applications take advantage of them.
breichelt said,
Wrote on May 5, 2005 @ 10:01 am
I just had IE crash on me, and it only brought down the one instance of IE, not my other window, so in some situations it must behave differently.
Anonymous said,
Wrote on July 29, 2005 @ 4:54 pm
There is an extension for FireFox called Session Saver, that will restore your open pages after a crash either automatically or on demand.