Firefox is to IE what a Mac is to a PC. It has a remarkably sexy logo, marketing campaign and interface. It’s what the cool kids are using. And like the Mac, it sucks at the core. (An aside on Macs: my first computer was a slow and buggy Mac, but when the Macbook Pro came out I thought I would give Apple another chance. While the OS stole my heart, the hardware broke it, requiring Apple Care for random shutdowns within just weeks of purchase.)
So back to browsers. Months ago I fell in love with Firefox. The tabbed browsing, and red fox on the blue planet, drove me wild. But once Firefox 2 came out I noticed something fishy. Like the slowness. And memory issues. I cracked open Windows Task Manager and saw Firefox was using a completely unacceptable 263,000K of memory. It’s over, Firefox. Sorry. Maybe when you get your act together I will take you back. For the time being, however, I downloaded IE7. I don’t care if Microsoft is Evil (TM) and IE Doesn’t Comply With Standards(TM), because I can actually use my computer again.
Update: Just hours after this posting, IE7 has already managed to annoy me. I am now test-driving Opera.
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That’s it—hand in your geek card right now. Actually, I have been seeing many random crashes in Firefox. I’m hoping the next rev will be better.
I couldn’t switch to Safari or IE anyway, because I now depend on extensions like Adblock and Firebug.
Firefox will still be better if it really had those memory issues that you mentioned. But for me it works like heaven , it never got slowed, never ate much memory until i loaded a java applet. and that’s java’s problem not firefox’s problem.
I don’t know… Firefox has been eating memory like crazy every single time I open more than one tab (java or no).
Hi,
try this tips:
1)
- about:config
- Right-click anywhere, select New, then Integer. In the dialog prompt that appears, type:
browser.cache.memory.capacity
- set 16384 or 32768
2)
- about:config
- search browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers
- set the value between 0/2 (depending on you ram)
other tips
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Reducing_memory_usage_(Firefox)
I used this solutions a year ago, under firefox 1.5
Now I’m using gnu/linux (that doesn’t suffer of memory leack) so I can’t tell you if they work even under ff 2.0
I hope so
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