[iBook] Why????

[Fred Stevens K2FRD]

PowerPoint, like Word and others in the Microsoft Office For Mac suite is a memory hog. I've learned to quit the MS Office application as soon as I've finished with it to free up memory for my other applications (I also have only 648mb RAM). I've had a few problems with Firefox not closing, quitting, or otherwise freezing; in most instances, this is also due to Microsoft's weird html being used to create a web page or site. Force quit or, often, force power off or restart is the only way to get out.

At 19:56 -0600 22/11/2005, / dave / wrote:
>Often, after a couple of days of very intensive Firefox use (anywhere from 6 to 30 web pages open in tabs at once, quite a few Firefox extensions running, etc.) along with ongoing Thunderbird use for mail, and sporadic use of other programs like Photoshop, GarageSale, Word, Preview, Excel, etc., it will take as long as 4 or 5 minutes for Firefox to close when I want to do a restart or tidy things up. I suspect this is partly to do with the fact that I only have 684MB of RAM.
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>As far as I can remember, Firefox has never "not closed" as with your Powerpoint problem, though once in a great while it will just crash rather than finish what it's been trying to do for the last 4 minutes.

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