From: hayesstw@telkomsa.net   
      
   On Sun, 12 Feb 2017 17:05:03 +0000 (UTC), Stef    
   wrote:   
      
   >Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >   
   >> Does anyone know of a good web browser that works in Windows XP?   
   >   
   >Off the top of my head: Opera, Google Chrome, and, of course, Firefox.   
   >However, Google & Firefox are ending support and development of their   
   >browser for XP this year or next, IIRC.   
   >   
   >> I've been using Firefox, but it seems increasingly buggy lately. It   
   >> goes slower and slower, until all it says is "Not Responding" and it   
   >> keeps the hard drive churning so that everthing else runs slowly too,   
   >> until eventually I turn it off at the qwall and reboot.   
   >   
   >Firefox is probably not buggy.   
   >   
   >If there are no other problems, the progressive slowness sounds like   
   >lack of RAM and the system is using virtual memory.  Modern browsers use   
   >lots of RAM, particularly the more tabs or windows you have open.  And,   
   >then, there are the other applications and processes you are running,   
   >too.  So ...   
      
   Quite possibly. I had problems with a previous computer which worked   
   fine when I bought it, but each software update brought a more bloated   
   version that needed more memory, until they were swapping to disk all   
   the time.   
      
   >1.  Add more RAM and see what happens   
   >   
   >2.  Check how much RAM is being used before and while you run Firefox   
      
   Will Windows task manager show that?   
      
   >> Every time I close it nowmally it asks me to send a crash report,   
   >> though it never does that when it actually crashes.   
   >>   
   >> So I'm looking for one that works better on XP.   
   >   
   >I use both Firefox and Chrome on my XP SP3 system, and have no problems.   
   > Very peppy.  And I'm running XP 32-bit with 3GB RAM in a virtual   
   >machine (VirtualBox) on a Linux host (3.0 Ghz Phenom II quad-core CPU   
   >and 8GB RAM). It runs better in the VM than it did on the original   
   >system (circa 2003) it came with which died years ago.   
      
   Well if I ever need to replace this machine, and can afford to do so,   
   I might consider that. In the mean time I'll start looking at Opera   
   and Chrome.   
      
      
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