On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Rich Braun <ri...@pioneer.ci.net> wrote: > Not too long ago, I bought a Core i5 with 8GB of RAM, thinking that this > amount of horsepower thrown at the Firefox problem would make it go away. > > Wrong, I was still seeing sluggish 2000ms+ response time to such simple things > as pulling up a dropdown or even echoing characters in a form. The process > kept bloating to 2.8GB of RAM and bogging down, even with the upgrade to > version 5.0 (I use OpenSuSE for my desktop). > > Today I decided I had enough and switched to Chrome. One day into this > exercise, it appears I'm not going back, probably ever. Chrome remains > snappy, and although it spawns separate processes for each active tab, they > all add up to about 240Mb of RAM: less than *one tenth* the amount of RAM > gobbled by Firefox. > > Has anyone else gone through this switch? What steps could have been taken to > troubleshoot Firefox to avoid having to make this switch? I basically > disabled all plugins, flash, Java, everything--and it still took over my whole > system. I'm saddened by the collapse of Firefox but maybe it's just me, doing > something wrong. > > -rich >
It would be interesting to expand this to include Opera, and maybe even Konqueror . I find Opera amazingly fast, and often swap between Opera and Chrome on my Mac. FF, too, for those applications that require it. Thanks. Scott > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
