Back to the dinosaur? Sea Monkey?

[Lobster]

Puppy just locked up on me - this has happened several times lately

There are three potential culprits:

1. Firefox 1.5 (the most likely) I am gonna use something else for a while
2. JWM - always found this to be less reliable than fv95wm
3. Xorg (doubt it but possible)

I press ctrl + alt + backspace
and then type xwin jwm
and I am back
but I was typing a message which I have lost
- unacceptable!

How can I recommend Firefox if this happens? It always happens in Firefox BUT that is the program I use the most . . .
m m m . . .
Yes it is Firefox because that reporter thing has come up several times (send the error to Firefox)

Oh dear!
Back to the dinosaur? Sea Monkey?

M m m m m - maybe a radical solution - KDE Konqueror - yep that is the one for me - will report back . . .

KDE here I come

[MU]

Note Konqueror has a nice feature (among many others):

Click on "Settings -save view profile webbrowsing".

Then next time you start, it will open all tabs (Websites) that were visible at that moment.
Note you can save several view-profiles.

It also displays websites faster than Opera on my computer.
I thinkI gonna switch to konqui, too

Mark

[Auda]

I would suspect that its firefox I have it lockup or crash on me fairly regularly maybe a couple of times a week. Some sites slow it down to less than a crawl and some crash it. Opera would be my preference.
Auda

[Artie]

Also have trouble with Firefox 1.5. I just stay with Opera.

[merlin026]

Cannot help it but just like a lot of people out there I am influenced by advertising. So yes I do install other browsers and give them a try for a couple of weeks. But every time it is No, unless it is the No for Norway, home to the people who created Opera.
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What are two significant advantages of Opera to Firefox:
1. Opera loads pages quicker.
2. Opera has a lot of "extensions" already included in its ready to download version. No hassle - I have always called Opera the "luxury browser."
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Can somebody tell me the advantages of Konqueror to Opera - just being curious.

[Lobster]

Konqueror is open source

we control it
Opera is controlled by whoever owns or buys it.

Opera is the best browser but not for all situations and times. I used it for many years. I prefer Flock to Opera incidentally.

am using Firefox right now (I am such a slacker)

[edr4d]

I had the same problem (Firefox locking up), but since I created a swap it has been running fine. I'm running on only 64 MB ram.

Before I set up the swap digg.com would lock it up every single time. But now that my puppy is swap-erific it load the site (and all other sites) quickly and smoothly.

[dvw86]

I tend to like Mozilla (Sea Monkey). I have been spending time with KDE and I find that Mozilla performs better than Konqueror even if it doesn't have as much eye candy. Right now my set-up is KDE with Rox as the file manager and Mozilla as the web browser.

[BarryK]

Puppy just locked up on me - this has happened several times lately

There are three potential culprits:

1. Firefox 1.5 (the most likely) I am gonna use something else for a while
2. JWM - always found this to be less reliable than fv95wm
3. Xorg (doubt it but possible)

I run the stock-standard Puppy, with Mozilla, JWM and Xorg, and it never hangs.

[Leon]

I run Puppy 1.7, with JWM, Firefox 1.5 and Xvesa without any problem.

[Guest]

i'm running Firefox 1.5 (xorg, icewm)

if you have limited space in /root, it's probably a good idea to limit the size of Firefox's cache

Edit, Preferences, Privacy, Cache tab, "Use Up To: 2 MB Of Disk Space For Cache"

i have mine set to 2 MB ... you might want to set it to 0 MB

you might want to configure the Clear Private Data settings (bottom of the window) to clear the cache when Firefox shuts down

some web pages can completely fill the cache ... if the cache is large enough, this can use up all the space in /root ... ext file systems reserve some space for the user "root", so that "root" will always have some working space left ... but Puppy is always running as "root", so the reserve space gets used up

if something uses up all the free space in /root .. for example, if Firefox's cache gets filled up ... Puppy won't be able to write to /root or /etc and Puppy will probably crash

[GuestToo]

that was my post

[Lobster]

m m m . . .
what you say makes sense G2
The problem is I can do what you say but I might forget in the future.
As Barry says Mozilla always works (from my experience too). I was having problems with Mozilla for a while because I installed a theme that caused problems with resizing.

Dillo is too tiny. So at the moment I am happy with Mozilla and Firefox (with caution). In the end it is usability. Even though Mozilla is 100% reliable I am only using it 9% of he time. The 1% is reserved for downloads which are most reliable and fast from Opera . . .