Firefox 5

Are you moving back from any other browser back to FF?

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Chianti said:
My experience:
FF5 not any faster and takes 20mb more memory at start up.
Plus the fucking memory leak is back that FF4 actually managed to curb.
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medway said:
Same ol memory leak here too, disapointing.
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What sort of hardware are you guys running? I agree about the extra memory being used at startup... But I don't see any other memory issues.

The reason I ask is because back when I was using 2gb of RAM and a 1.6mhz processor: I had all sorts of gripes about FF and memory usage.

Now that I have gobs of ram and a fast dual core processor, FF works just fine (other than the extra 2 seconds it now takes to load with FF5.)
 
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IMHopeful said:
What sort of hardware are you guys running? I agree about the extra memory being used at startup... But I don't see any other memory issues.

The reason I ask is because back when I was using 2gb of RAM and a 1.6mhz processor: I had all sorts of gripes about FF and memory usage.

Now that I have gobs of ram and a fast dual core processor, FF works just fine (other than the extra 2 seconds it now takes to load with FF5.)
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Specs are fine, the issue is the growing memory leak that brings usage up to 1.5gb or more. One of my comps has 4gb and dual but any app taking 1.5 gig is going to start to slow down usually.
 
So I've had this open to the side of my Chrome and had started moving some tabs and shit over. With 1 window and 41 tabs the thing still manages to get fucked. Taking up a gig of ram and fucking up my whole connection when I try to restart it. The tabs won't load and it will literally kill the rest of my connection for anything else I'm doing. I'm not even sure how that's possible but when you're FF I guess it is. Fuck you firefox.
 
^ Are you using add-ons? Without any add-ons running, I used firefox 5 for 2 hours. Then I opened 40 tabs, average sites on 30, but then for the 10 others I had 10 youtube videos playing at once.

It didn't crash or anything and I could switch between tabs almost at normal speed. Firefox.exe was at around 800 MB. The plugin-container.exe that they use for flash and stuff was 600 MB, though. Going down to one tab brought the two processes combined to 330 MB. This was on a machine with a 3.2 ghz dual core and 4 gb ram.
 
Moxie said:
^ Are you using add-ons? Without any add-ons running, I used firefox 5 for 2 hours. Then I opened 40 tabs, average sites on 30, but then for the 10 others I had 10 youtube videos playing at once.

It didn't crash or anything and I could switch between tabs almost at normal speed. Firefox.exe was at around 800 MB. The plugin-container.exe that they use for flash and stuff was 600 MB, though. Going down to one tab brought the two processes combined to 330 MB. This was on a machine with a 3.2 ghz dual core and 4 gb ram.
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Yeah there's a few add-ons. Isn't that really the only reason most of us still use FF? It's possible one of them is breaking something but then I might as well just not use it :/
 
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