Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!news.tal.de!news.wtal.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Rod Speed" Newsgroups: aus.computers,aus.tv,aus.politics Subject: Re: Waterfox. a 64bit mozilla based web browser Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 17:50:52 +1000 Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <55d272db$0$1637$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=response Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net a5xxGebzFD7UVv43RFGs6QMT0IA+M85EgMZ77/2itpM9srS58= Cancel-Lock: sha1:hCoEourm82UrMkLg2CW7LxGhDn0= In-Reply-To: <55d272db$0$1637$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal Importance: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Windows Live Mail 14.0.8117.416 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V14.0.8117.416 Xref: csiph.com aus.computers:47459 aus.tv:121597 aus.politics:554246 "Clocky" wrote in message news:55d272db$0$1637$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com... > On 15/08/2015 12:10 PM, Rod Speed wrote: >> >> >> "felix_unger" wrote in message >> news:d35af3Fn70kU1@mid.individual.net... >>> >>> Waterfox is a 64 bit version of firefox.. >>> https://www.waterfoxproject.org/ >> >> Been playing around seeing if it does any better than Pale Moon >> with my fixed set of web pages for the weather and News. >> >> Just seen the cpu usage jump right up with just one of those >> pages in use, all with Waterfox and its plugin container after >> leaving it running for what must have been only a few hours >> on Win7 64bit. > So, a steaming turd like Firefox then? Not quite so bad. That burst of high cpu usage doesn’t last all that long. Not too clear what it thinks its doing. I haven't bothered to check what the resource manager says its doing.