It's not nor is that what people are bitching about. I've seen it eat
300MB physical just a few days ago and almost that this morning in
virtual right after I posted my response here. After reading the article
I added the memory cache tweak to limit it to 15MB & will keep an eye on it.
Load up SysInternals' Process Explorer and watch the pretty colors spike
as you click on links. Not deal breaker, just annoying like their lack
of NoScript functionality out-of-the-box or their arguing they are
better simply for lacking ActiveX.
To be fair my copy tends (like my windows) to be up for days or weeks at
a time unless I update, tweak, or crash but I'll give it up when they
pry it form my cold dead hands! =)
Stan Zaske wrote:
38,904k doesn't seem excessive as far as memory usage (reported by
TaskMan) and no crashes. Sometimes pages are slow to load but that has
more to do with bandwidth and server load IMHO. @:D.
warpmedia wrote:
I'd say valid complaints as I've seen them all since going to FF 1.5.
Memory usage, hangs, pauses, & crashing being my most common issue.
Not more than once or twice a day and mostly high mem & cpu usage
related to Adobe Acrobat or other extensions IMHO.
Some crashes I can attribute to them not forcing you to authenticate
to the crypto system until you hit a page that has a certificate or
you have a cached password for. It should prompt on FF launch IMHO & I
posted it as a bug fix suggestion under 1.0x. By not forcing this,
updates will fail and launching extension manager with Mr Tech local
installer causes a flat out crash 3 times of 5. Frustrating if you
close/reopen FF to finish an install & the extension manager tab is
still open due to session saving (which can be a source of issues in
itself).
Pages not rendering is an easy work around with IE Tab installed which
simply renders the page in FF via IE's engine.
We've put up with worse from IE. Overall I am happy & more in control
of my browser AND don't doubt that unlike IE things things will get
fixed.
Meanwhile be more worried about recent flaws in Sun's JVM reminiscent
of the complaints I had early last year of being exploited. Thank the
programming gods for NoScript.
Stan Zaske wrote:
Yeah, I took part in the Scott's Newsletter part of the poll and
explained that I've never had any issues with Firefox through many
different versions. Sounds like IE supporters to me looking for a
reason to bash Firefox. If you only saw how loaded my main box is
you'd be amazed @ how stable it is. I'm constantly tinkering with it
and if Firefox were going to misbehave you think it would have by now
(by the way, I've got 11 extensions and 17 themes installed running
version 1.5). @:D>
Thane Sherrington (S) wrote:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=175007152
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