Fed up with Firefox AND IE AND Vista
Published December 28, 2007 by Robbie
About a month ago, I described how I was fed up with Firefox memory problems and instability so I decided to try out IE7. Well I’m unhappy to report that my experience with IE hasn’t been much better. Yes, it also bloats up to several hundred MBs and over a period of a few days my whole system starts to exhibit memory leak behavior. Part of the problem is that I’m running Windows Vista. I should have just stayed with XP. Perhaps I should “upgrade” back to XP. Or better yet, maybe I should put down my Lenovo and dust off my Mac.
It amazes me that in my 13 years of using the Windows operating system, stability is still a huge issue. Sure the UI has improved and the apps are more feature rich, but we’ve sacrified stability. I’m about fed up with it. The periodic need to reboot, memory leaks, SYSTEM process going to 100%, inability to handle multiple monitors well, video driver crashing after undocking, etc., etc.
All of this just furthers my belief that “thin web-based clients” are the future.
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It is a sad day for MSFT when people like you Robbie are having issues running Vista.
I purposely have stayed away from Vista till SP1. Also when I do goto Vista, I will probably update my hardware to support 4 gigs of Ram and probably run a hypervisor layer (So I can switch back and forth) … my hope is by this summer Xen and VMware will have their thin hypervisors out and possibly integrated into the firmware of a motherboard. What is sad is I am looking forward more to Windows 2008.
What type of hardware are you running on now? You might have a memory issue. Not all memory is equal these days… and with Vista the video card now becomes part of the troubleshooting process as well.
You might also look into running MSFT’s application compatibility verifier toolkit. If you are running applications not specifically designed to run on Vista, they might be making system calls that Vista is intercepting and doing some crazy stuff with its built-in compatibility processing.
When it is all said and done, I agree with your assertion that thin clients are looking to be the way to go for productivity.
It is great to see all the innovation going into the application virtualization space these days. Keep an eye on Thinstall.
I’m running on a Lenovo T60p with 3GB of RAM. 4GB would definitely be ideal, but I bet it would only delay the problems I’m seeing — not get rid of them. I considered going the virtual route when I first installed Vista, but support for Vista was so poor that it didn’t make sense at the time.
Thinstall looks interesting. A lot of people are on the server virtualization bandwagon, but client virtualization is the “next big thing” imo.
Linux Troll says:
http://fedoraproject.org for a much happier system.
;-)