Jonathan Wright schreef: > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> I may have misconfigured it early on. Is there something in >> particular I should look for? > > > I know there used to be issues with firefox where it had difficulty > releasing memory when you have had a large number of tabs running. > The only way to release it is to shut down firefox. > > However, I'm not sure if this has been fixed yet though. >
Speaking from experience, I would say it has not (although I have not used the newest revision of 1.0.6 long enough to say if it is fixed there). I commonly run with all the tabs open my desktop will hold (about 30), and I can certainly confirm that after a while (some 12 hours or more), I have found that other programs seem to have 'issues' (especially Wine/Cedega, for example), which are solved by closing Firefox. Not that Firefox itself has any issues, but it does seem to have a memory leak? hog? something-- which saddens me, because it makes me feel like I'm using Mozilla again, which had these kinds of problems for a long, long time. Firefox was a big relief because it *didn't* have 'that damn Mozilla memory problem', but it seems to have developed it. Holly -- [email protected] mailing list
