I've no idea what Aurora is but I also use Firefox and have never
noticed any particular problems with PDFs resulting from a Google
search. I used Google just an hour or so ago to locate PDFs of three
different camera manuals. Response was a little bit slow but nothing I
would consider unusual given the vagaries of web service. I just tried
again with another 3 manuals. The first two were received fine but also
a bit slow. But all 6 files mentioned here were coming from the same
web site. On the sixth file something very strange happened. It
appeared that absolutely nothing was happening for a couple of minutes
on what should have been a fairly small PDF of maybe 1/2 dozen pages. I
thought Firefox had died but the task manager showed it fairly well
idling along with about 1% CPU usage and memory usage slowly rising and
falling a few megabytes. Then I closed all the open tabs which it did
instantly and without complaint. Verdict: Very slow web site.
Chuck Norcutt
On 1/7/2013 11:37 AM, Brian Swale wrote:
> And to change the topic yet a bit more, I am now using Mozilla Firefox
> Aurora browser. Chrome is now side-lined permanently, except for some
> specific duties. Mozilla does not put my HDD through the contortions that
> Chrome does, and the presentation seems comfortable. My only grouch is
> that Firefox, as for the older Opera browsers I have, gets totally paralysed
> if
> given the job of opening a pdf file encountered in a google search. This
> usually results in 10 minutes being spent getting the system back on track.
> Chrome handles these files with (hackneyed phrase) consummate ease.
>
> Brian Swale
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