Before I went to work this morning I set up a virus scan using Symantec's online scanner . I'm a very security-conscious Windows user, so imagine my surprise when I came home to find that the scanner returned an infection. The "virus" (ABC Keylogger)
If you run firefox with the argument -turbo then firefox will pre-load itself into memory. In my experience this has been a flaky implementation at best, but it does make the application launch faster. When I mentioned "turbo mode" I was referring to a feature in the original Mozilla suite (the bastard brother of Netscape). Turbo-mode basically pre-loads parts of the browser into memory on start-up in the same way that MS office, openoffice.org, and so
I've been using Firefox for a little over a year now and--with the exception of windows update and my work's remote desktop connection--I will never use IE again. On most sites it loads pages faster, and on other sites the speed difference is negligible. IE does start faster, because so much of the browser is pre-loaded into Windows. I see this as more of a negative than a positive, because it allocates system memory for Microsoft's browser (which I do
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