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Re: Surprise! The memory issues are back in Firefox

franky — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 19:48:16 -0000

Since I am on Mac I really learned to live without all the plugins I used before and Webkit became my weapon of choice, except when doing dev work.
The slick, no thrills approach even made Chrome my main browser on Windows. Admitted, I miss the occasional plugin, but not that much either.

Re: Surprise! The memory issues are back in Firefox

Ed — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:50:29 -0000

I am running Windows FireFox too and have been experiencing more crashes with 3.0.4 than I have ever had in my entire relationship with Firefox.

Re: Surprise! The memory issues are back in Firefox

Scott Paterson — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:35:27 -0000

Stopped using FF a long time ago because of the bloatedness of this browser. With growing number of very capable alternatives FF team need to sort this out...

Re: Surprise! The memory issues are back in Firefox

rampantheart — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 00:24:38 -0000

I hate FF for doing this! But i won't stop using it! Will perhaps shift to Opera for a while!

Re: Surprise! The memory issues are back in Firefox

John — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 21:15:35 -0000

Just use opera ;)
Losta features, low memory footprint, fast.

Re: Surprise! The memory issues are back in Firefox

I am going to switch — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:19:42 -0000

Firefox has been created a lot of problems lately. I am going to stop use it.

Re: Surprise! The memory issues are back in Firefox

name — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:04:06 -0000

the memory issues are also terrible on linux.

On windows, I have no problem at all. It's a shame that a browser that is supposed to be universally cross-platform is not. Mozilla consistently refuses to do proper development for any platform other than Windows/Intel.

Re: Surprise! The memory issues are back in Firefox

calvin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:52:05 -0000

get a PC!

Re: Surprise! The memory issues are back in Firefox

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:48:57 -0000

I am having trouble reaching their add-ons page today. Is the problem on my end or theirs?

Re: Surprise! The memory issues are back in Firefox

Gato — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:36:19 -0000

3.0.4 installed for two days , no crashes for me.

Gato

Re: Surprise! The memory issues are back in Firefox

Matjaz — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 04:06:53 -0000

Why doesn't it use WebKit? Cause none of you seem to understand that the core of the expansibility of Firefox stems from it using Gecko.
I'm using 3.1 beta, and except for the download issue, (which i have solved by using FlashGot and an external tool to download things) I have no complaints.
Gecko is fine, it's being slimmed down all the time, and will hopefully live up to expectations with the 2.0 version of the engine.

Re: Surprise! The memory issues are back in Firefox

Boredcollegekid — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:37:26 -0000

A quick look a mozilla's bugzilla shows a ton of posts on the issues, ranging from the memory usage (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=46...) to the crashes. Whatever the final issue is, its apparent something is badly broken in the thing. I personally don't have any issues with the stable build (the nightly build crashed every time I tried to use google docs).

Re: Surprise! The memory issues are back in Firefox

pathawks — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:45:16 -0000

No kidding. Why does Firefox NOT use WebKit yet? Ego?
I've been using the nightly build of FF, which works well, except it crashes EVERY TIME I download a file. Filed a bug report. Meh. I just use Safari to download stuff.

Re: Surprise! The memory issues are back in Firefox

JohnMcDonald — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:18:02 -0000

Still using 2.something here and I don't really have any problems unless I spend a few hours on a flash site. (Actually not very hard to do thanks to Pandora...)