Swad Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 Saw this on digg and thought it was interesting. This guy is a mozilla dev and he talks about fixing the memory leaks in Firefox. This, IMO, is one of the worst issues with firefox. http://www.squarefree.com/2006/02/04/memory-leak-progress/ I like opera, but firefox and its extensions are a mixed blessing. I like some of the extensions (like adblock), but then I think that more of them should just be built into the app (since many of them cause memory leaks of their own!) Opera is fast, free (finally), and just feels more mature in a lot of ways. I just can't decide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 It's been talked about here and found a fix to keep it below 80mb. This annoyance has been around since I can remember. That's why I use Opera in Linux. Unfortunately Opera is still {censored} on Tiger. http://forum.osx86project.org/index.php?s=...indpost&p=45372 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted February 5, 2006 Author Share Posted February 5, 2006 I'm just surprised that something so fundamental is still around, you know? It seems like something basic that should have never been a problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnniecarcinogen Posted February 5, 2006 Share Posted February 5, 2006 for FF there is a configuration option you can use when compiling "--enable-leaky", that builds a 'leaky memory tool'. I have no idea what it is though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted February 5, 2006 Author Share Posted February 5, 2006 Yeah, here's some info about a leak detector for firefox. http://www.squarefree.com/2006/01/13/memor...detection-tool/ If you use firefox and want to make it better, I'd recommend using this tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
domino Posted February 6, 2006 Share Posted February 6, 2006 This discussion has been discused to death on a lot of linux forums. There is no excuse to this. Yes you can blame the extension to the causes, but you can not blame extensions if you have non installed in the first place. Yet, it still eats up just over 100mb with no plugins. And the cause migh also be due to several tabs open. If that's the case, there is a seriouse problem with development. We went to ff because of the multi-tabs, not the extensions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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