@ David Kelly; @ Claire; @Sceptical Bastard

I agree FULLY with SB. write w3c complient pages, and EVERY REASONABLE BROWSER works with them. In addition you get the advantage of remembering to include support for making your page more accessable (like for blind computer users).

note: many versions of IE are not "reasonable" as they do not properly process xhtml without browser optimisations. but these things should be the exception to workaround a browser-bug, not the rule. (or better yet, how come the richest company makeing a browser can't seem to manage to keep up with w3c specs? maybe they could work on shipping a solid browser rather then a flash look-alike?)

on a seperate note: "grabbing a chunk of memory" likely wouldnt work either, unless all OSes FF runs on allow you to tag the memory as "non-pageable" if it ever hits the HD for any reason, your SOL... if your that parinoid.

mines the one with the saved el Reg password