[SLL] Laughing down Firefox today at my work...

[Mr.Scrooge]

--- Xeno Campanoli <xcampanoli at gmail.com> wrote:

> Say, today our weekly meeting included a two-man five minute lambast of
> Firefox and it's memory usage problems.  Supposedly one fellow kept
> firefox on his Windows system over the weekend and it had used some 6
> gigabytes of memory.  Then he said that it reclaimed the memory in
> windows after a few hours, so therefore it wasn't a leak.  I always
> thought that was a leak, but perhaps that's another matter.

It wouldn't be Vista would it? that would explain much of the problem.

> Anyway, I know this doesn't sound "Linuxy", but Firefox, after all, is
> one of the most well known and well-used of popular open-source
> software, and quite frankly it often behaves even worse on Linux than it
> does on XP for me, so I think it is a good topic of discussion.

What distro do you have installed?

> Does anyone know if there is some kind of agenda to handle firefoxes
> memory and crashing problems?  Often if you continuously don't get no
> respect, you are soon on the way out.

You could always uninstall firefox if it doesn't work right. There are a few alternatives.
how many people are experiencing problems with firefox? I haven't had it crash even once. I must
live in the Bermuda triangle or something. I have heard of these issues but never actually seen
one. I have used firefox on ubuntu, Open Suse 10.2 & 10.3, fedora 7 & 8 and winblows just to name
the major ones but i have never had any problems. Curious....by a show of emails if everyone would
be so kind....

-Max


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