Re: What's the Big Deal with Firefox?

Neil <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.windows
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ron Hunter wrote:

> Howard Brazee wrote:
>
>> On 13-Jan-2005, Andrew DeFaria <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> I've heard of machines at work running Unix that have been up 
>>> continually for some 5+ years.
>>>
>>> Can your Mac do that?
>>
>> I don't know if he is Mac can do that (whatever that means).
>>
>> But I know of OS/2 machines that did that.
>>
>> I keep my Windows XP machines on until I have to reboot them because 
>> things stop working correctly, which happens every couple of weeks or 
>> so.  I don't recall ever having to do that when I was using OS/2.
>
> I use my WinXP machine a LOT, doing various things, often with beta 
> (or alpha) software and I reboot only when an install or update 
> requires it.  That is usually about once a week, but may happen 
> several times in a day, or not for several weeks.  In the time I have 
> had WinXP, I have had maybe two reboots due to unspecified causes.  
> WinXP is VASTLY more stable than Win9X based versions.

Plus it doesn't have that silly crash after 2^32 milliseconds bug. (FYI 
that's 49 days 17 hours 2 minutes and 47.296 seconds)

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