On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 09:49:15AM -0400, David Hummel wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 1:07 AM, Randy Cole<
randyokc@...> wrote:
> > When I have a number of tabs open, firefox runs slowly & uses lots of
> > memory. And when you close tabs, it doesn't seem to release the
> > memory. What can I do about this?
One thing I just ran into: Ubuntu's Firefox-3.0.10 packages (the
latest version, AFAICT) are MUCH worse than the latest upstream code.
At work I deal with a web ap with a UI that's javascript-heavy, and it
brings my browser (and my machine, for that matter) to its knees after
about an hour. It leaks memory like old car A/C units leak freon. I
can actually watch it leak memory by running top. I downloaded the
3.0.11 release directly from Mozilla and installed that side-by-side,
and the memory usage is extremely stable, at least in the short term.
> Consider installing the Flashblock and NoScript add-ons. Most
> resource issues I've experienced with Firefox are not due to Firefox
> itself but to all of the flash and javascript that many sites are
> using these days...
Note of course that you can simply remove flash and turn off
Javascript if you don't need those; but unfortunately these days it's
getting harder and harder to get by without them (especially
Javascript). If you need them (e.g. you need to use problematic
sites), you're kinda stuck. And FWIW many of the Javascript problems
are caused by bugs in Firefox.
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