Free browser

[Christopher]

Can someone please give me a link to a nice free browser. I was using firefox until it started using 99% of my processor. I used Opera once and it was very slow.

[dest581]

Firefox shouldn't take up much unless you leave it open for days, or open a ton of tabs full of flash. Opera is a good second choice. It shouldn't be much slower.

What are your computer's specs?

[Christopher]

AMD Athlon XP 1800+ 1.50 GHz
640 MB of RAM
Full details: http://fye.uni.cc/sysinfo.txt

[dest581]

You have a much better system than I do, and firefox runs fine here.

How often did it do what you described?

[Christopher]

Magicaly started and I could not fix it. Even a full format and reinstall of Windows did not help. I'm afraid something has gone seriously wrong because I can't install AIM anymore as it tells me my computer is not powerfull enough. First my moniter goes bad now my computer.

[dest581]

Well, at least we know firefox isn't the problem then. In the meantime, for AIM, try installing GAIM (gaim.sf.net)

[Spartan Erik]

Firefox does have occasional memory leaks (my system hanged for a bit and required a manual shut down).. hey Chougard, maybe some of your hardware fried somewhere along the line..

[Christopher]

IF some of my memory fried, shouldn't it have reduced the totat memory? I just removed all of my memory, dusted the computer and inserted the memory again. At this time I have 324 mb of memory free.

[disturbedart]

Have you tried low-level formatting your hard-drive to make sure it's totaly clean cause data can be still pulled back-up from a normal format, try a low-level format that should clear up the problem otherwise its a hardware problem.

[noerrorsfound]

Opera is not slow. It's actually much faster to start up than Firefox and doesn't use as much memory.