K I just switched to Chrome a few days ago... and I can't believe I didn't do it sooner. *beep* Firefox.

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Hmm, if it has happened to you in both browsers, it may be a computer problem and not the browser.

I have not experienced freezes with the latest version of Firefox (FF 4), and I didn't with the previous ones either. The only time when I get funky action is when Google Images leads me to an effed up site where the image is hosted.

Do you use tabs or individual windows? (although it shouldn't really matter)

I have no idea. How old is your computer?

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Yeah.. I thought I have a cool anti-virus program since I've never had problems (and I've used it for 5-6 years on two computers)... but it might be it.. This computer is only two years old...

I use both single windows and windows with multible tabs. When FF freezes in one window it usually freezes the other tabs and windows too (but not my IE windows or other programs).

IE actually stopped freezing and shutting down on me, so yay for the browser gods smiling at me here.

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I used IE by default in “my” company for years. Recently, the options to use Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox cropped up for some reasons that I never quite was able to figure out. With my retirement looming and the whole alternative-browser business seeming to be something for colleagues who travelled with their notebooks and users of notepads and smartphones, my need to figure out any details fizzled quickly. My computer shop installed Firefox (and Thunderbird for e-mails) which I’m quite satisfied with. There’s one little twist to the browser discussion that makes me perhaps more jaded about MS stuff and a bit partial towards Mozilla. In a large software development program moving our company from own-programmed mainframe stuff to the client-server architecture with programs bought from outside, Netscape Navigator was the browser of choice, and quite rightly so compared to the IE. IE had been something like Excel or Word or later the Office suites, something to be bought separately from the OS system. MS got annoyed that Netscape was hammering its pathetic IE of the day and decided to declare IE as part of the OS, so basically making it free, with the only goal to destroy Netscape, which succeeded. As we all know (do we?) this turned the MS crap in the Internet to Hacker’s Hog Heaven. I don’t know if MS has to date entirely recovered from this forcing the IE to become part of the OS. Netscape then morphed into Mozilla, so using their stuff gives me a slight sense (however justified – but hey! perception defines reality!) of gleeful revenge.

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