On 09/19/10 09:22, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: > On 18 September 2010 15:14, Kevin O'Gorman <kogor...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Is it just me? Or does Firefox get slower every release? And less stable. > > Indeed. But FF4 is *much* faster. And much more stable. At least, that > was my experience when I tried it out. I had to go back to 3.6 because > some of the plugins that I need were not yet supported for FF4. At > least the later 3.6 releases aren't as unstable as the previous ones.
Firefox 4 indeed is smoother (probably due to the new animations, probably because none of the plugins I used are compatible yet, but maybe it is just faster); but it is definitely more memory hungrier than before. In Fx3, it usually took around ~20-25% of my 1GB RAM and that's with opening a bunch lot of pages; Fx4 generally takes around ~25-30%. While taking 30% of my RAM is fine when I'm not multitasking, the main problem is I am always multitasking. With Thunderbird taking another 15-20%, emerge ranging from 5-30%, and X about 5-10%, my computer is becoming unbearably slow when memory starved. I've been thinking about adding -Os (optimize-size) to my CFLAGS, does anyone knows if doing that will possibly bring down memory usage and speed up the computer?
