Tim: >> While it's not open-source, I have a slight preference for Opera over >> Firefox. I find Firefox's propensity for jamming up and refusing you to >> let you do anything while some tabbed content is downloading, or >> rendering, to be extremely annoying. e.g. You're reading some page, >> middle click on a link to load it up in the background in another tab, >> and while that's happening you're stuck, unable to scroll through the >> thing you were currently reading. David Boles: > Loading a single page from a link on a page stops you from scrolling > down and continuing to read the first page? No, not always. But it's a common occurrence. It's worse on complex pages, but not restricted to them. > You need to look at your system Tim. You have something very wrong. No, it's not my system. It's Firefox. It's done this for years, on Windows, on Linux, on any computer that I've ever tried it on. Pristine ones, updated ones, etc. Over-specified systems, for web browsing, with 1.6 GHz dual core CPUs, etc. It's quite clear that Firefox doesn't internally multi-task very well. Try http://www.news.com.au/ as a bad example site. Load it up, background load in a tab two or more articles, you'll soon find it jamming up. Opera does it there, to some degree, too. But nowhere near as bad as Firefox does. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
