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Weyhey!! Thanks Steven.UK but I fear you may be too late?! Having used Firefox for a toatl of four days I am finding myself using IE as I keep getting message telling me so and so does not exist?! Including A/net?1 Yet I load IE and get in right away!! I will persevere a bit longer, but I fear tyhe writing is on the wall as far as I am concerned.

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Hiya,

 

Sorry Steve, we had the is discussion a while back and it was stated that there want a spell checker available for Fire fox.. you however have proved that wrong :)

 

Nice one mate :):)

Davy

 

"Skate Anglers Have Bigger Tackle"

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Firefox for me every time, it blows IE out of the water! IE does not render html and css scripts properly for starters :(

No annoying pop up adverts (not adware but legit popups from websites).

Tab browsing

Much quicker to load a webpage although Firefox is slower to begin with when first started up.

I'm sure i have more reasons but those will do to start with.

James

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I have not experienced any running bugs with spell bound.

 

Its just installing it can be a bit hit and miss, it doesn't screw things up when it doesn't install right. It can take a few attempts to get it to install all 3 xpi files.

 

works on 1.0 and 1.0.1

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melpen I asked a guru about the SMP/hyperthreading issue. I'm posting his response.

 

If you want to really dive into this, post in the IE section of the www.windowsbbs.com forum and Joe Hobart (this is his) can give you more detail and maybe if you continue to see the huge performance differences and do want to speed up IE, give you some specific how-to advice.

 

Joe can speak English - but since he was answering my question, he didn't bother.

 

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i dont think IE is SMP compatable

Horse manure, and i can prove it.

 

 

code:


   0  Id: 9fc.cbc Suspend: 1 Teb: 7ffdf000 Unfrozen

ChildEBP RetAddr

WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following fr

0013ede0 75fae331 ntdll!KiFastSystemCallRet

0013ee6c 75fae5d5 BROWSEUI!BrowserProtectedThreadProc+0x44

0013fef0 777e707e BROWSEUI!SHOpenFolderWindow+0x22c

0013ff10 00402372 SHDOCVW!IEWinMain+0x129

0013ff60 00402444 iexplore!WinMainT+0x2de

0013ffc0 7c816d4f iexplore!_ModuleEntry+0x99

0013fff0 00000000 kernel32!RegisterWaitForInputIdle+0x49

 

1 Id: 9fc.cb8 Suspend: 1 Teb: 7ffde000 Unfrozen

ChildEBP RetAddr

WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following fr

01e3ff80 77e76c22 ntdll!KiFastSystemCallRet

01e3ff88 77e76a3b RPCRT4!I_RpcBCacheFree+0x5ea

01e3ffa8 77e76c0a RPCRT4!I_RpcBCacheFree+0x403

01e3ffb4 7c80b50b RPCRT4!I_RpcBCacheFree+0x5d2

01e3ffec 00000000 kernel32!GetModuleFileNameA+0x1b4

 

2 Id: 9fc.cd4 Suspend: 1 Teb: 7ffdd000 Unfrozen

ChildEBP RetAddr

WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following fr

01f3ff78 7c802451 ntdll!KiFastSystemCallRet

01f3ff88 774fd6ae kernel32!Sleep+0xf

01f3ffb4 7c80b50b ole32!IsValidInterface+0x295

01f3ffec 00000000 kernel32!GetModuleFileNameA+0x1b4

 

3 Id: 9fc.c1c Suspend: 1 Teb: 7ffdc000 Unfrozen

ChildEBP RetAddr

WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following fr

025dfb0c 71a55fa7 ntdll!KiFastSystemCallRet

025dfc00 71ab2e67 mswsock!WSPSelect+0x25f

025dfc50 771d714f WS2_32!select+0xa7

025dffac 771d9283 WININET!ICAsyncThread::SelectThread+0x22a

025dffb4 7c80b50b WININET!ICAsyncThread::SelectThreadWrapper+

025dffec 00000000 kernel32!GetModuleFileNameA+0x1b4

 

4 Id: 9fc.c2c Suspend: 1 Teb: 7ffdb000 Unfrozen

ChildEBP RetAddr

WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following fr

026dffb4 7c80b50b ntdll!KiFastSystemCallRet

026dffec 00000000 kernel32!GetModuleFileNameA+0x1b4

 

5 Id: 9fc.c30 Suspend: 1 Teb: 7ffda000 Unfrozen

ChildEBP RetAddr

WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following fr

027dffb4 7c80b50b ntdll!KiFastSystemCallRet

027dffec 00000000 kernel32!GetModuleFileNameA+0x1b4

 

6 Id: 9fc.c40 Suspend: 1 Teb: 7ffd9000 Unfrozen

ChildEBP RetAddr

WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following fr

028eff80 77e76c22 ntdll!KiFastSystemCallRet

028eff88 77e76a3b RPCRT4!I_RpcBCacheFree+0x5ea

028effa8 77e76c0a RPCRT4!I_RpcBCacheFree+0x403

028effb4 7c80b50b RPCRT4!I_RpcBCacheFree+0x5d2

028effec 00000000 kernel32!GetModuleFileNameA+0x1b4

 

7 Id: 9fc.ca8 Suspend: 1 Teb: 7ffd8000 Unfrozen

ChildEBP RetAddr

WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following fr

029fffb4 7c80b50b ntdll!KiFastSystemCallRet

029fffec 00000000 kernel32!GetModuleFileNameA+0x1b4

 

8 Id: 9fc.cd8 Suspend: 1 Teb: 7ffd7000 Unfrozen

ChildEBP RetAddr

WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following fr

02f1ff78 7c802542 ntdll!KiFastSystemCallRet

02f1ff8c 7d523695 kernel32!WaitForSingleObject+0x12

02f1ffa4 7d586b8e mshtml!CDwnTaskExec::ThreadExec+0xae

02f1ffac 7d586b60 mshtml!CExecFT::ThreadProc+0x28

02f1ffb4 7c80b50b mshtml!CExecFT::StaticThreadProc+0xd

02f1ffec 00000000 kernel32!GetModuleFileNameA+0x1b4

 

9 Id: 9fc.cdc Suspend: 1 Teb: 7ffd6000 Unfrozen

ChildEBP RetAddr

WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following fr

0320ff44 77df9b26 ntdll!KiFastSystemCallRet

0320ffb4 7c80b50b ADVAPI32!RegDeleteKeyW+0x2a2

0320ffec 00000000 kernel32!GetModuleFileNameA+0x1b4

 

10 Id: 9fc.cf0 Suspend: 1 Teb: 7ffd5000 Unfrozen

ChildEBP RetAddr

WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following fr

0340ff78 7c802542 ntdll!KiFastSystemCallRet

0340ff8c 7d523695 kernel32!WaitForSingleObject+0x12

0340ffa4 7d586b8e mshtml!CDwnTaskExec::ThreadExec+0xae

0340ffac 7d586b60 mshtml!CExecFT::ThreadProc+0x28

0340ffb4 7c80b50b mshtml!CExecFT::StaticThreadProc+0xd

0340ffec 00000000 kernel32!GetModuleFileNameA+0x1b4

 

# 11 Id: 9fc.d18 Suspend: 1 Teb: 7ffaf000 Unfrozen

ChildEBP RetAddr

WARNING: Stack unwind information not available. Following fr

0355fff4 00000000 ntdll!DbgBreakPoint

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Here is a snapshot of IE under the debugger. There are 11 threads in this process. The way 'SMP' works is on thread granularity under WindowsNT OSes. At any given time, one thread is running on each processor, ex: 4 procs, 4 threads, 1 proc, 1 thread.

 

Thread #0 is the message pump, and primary rendering thread. #1 is an RPC worker thread, #2 is an ole worker thread, #3 is an Async Wininet/Winsock network communications thread. #4 uh.. #5 uh... #6 RPC worker thread, #7 uh... #8 mshtml rendering engine thread #9 doing something #10 mshtml rendering thread.

 

So, other than my symbols being hosed due to receint security updates, we can see that on a 4 proc machine, IE could be doing the following tasks all at the same time:

1) Handling inbound messages (WM_PAINTS, WM_MOUSEMOVEs etc)

2) Sucking data off the internet via a TCPIP socket

3) rendering

4) handling ole or rpc callbacks for plugins

 

[ 04. March 2005, 03:30 AM: Message edited by: Newt ]

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Many thanks newt,

 

Have dumped IE.

 

Am now using firefox, with no probs, no freezing, pages are loading correctly.

 

Have not had time too delve into whether firefox is capable of SMP

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