Aaaaack! Firefox follow-up.

Me. | Sat, Jan 16, 2010 | DGHoodini

[RobRoy]

>>While I like Firefox, I had to pretty much quit using it.
It seems to suffer from memory leaks, or something.<<

Although I am a big firefox fan, I’ve noticed sometimes it is using almost a gig of memory. I’ll shut it down and start from scratch.

Heck, I just checked and it is using 646 meg. I then closed all my tabs except for this one and it is using 645 meg now. actually it is bouncing between 643 and 648 meg. It’s like working with windows 95. I had to reboot my computer every other day to clear my memory being reserved by memory leaks.

I may want to give chrome a try after all.

[RobRoy]

BTW, I have no add-in’s other than things like flash player.

[RobRoy]

It was worse than I thought. I closed firefox and my memory usage went from 1.5 gig to 330 meg.

Now firefox is using 50 meg. Looks like I will be needing to shut it down regularly and restart.

[rightly_dividing]

Thanks for the insight.I am always cautious about puttting anything new on my laptop, especially anything free from the internet. Both myself and my laptop are short on memory, and are slow functioning, not needing any more impediments.

On another note, is there any place on the net where I can learn more about computer tech stuff on a beginners level? Most sites are so far over my head that I dont understand anything past the title, and sometimes that too.

[DGHoodini]

I can’t think of any specific dite, offhand. But there are plenty...at least there used to be. I’m sure if you Googled it, or whatever search engine you use, you’d find plenty to choose from.

[Yo-Yo]

Inspired by your title:

[DGHoodini]

That’s *exactly* what I felt like when I began the first thread! :oD

[Woodman]

I see you have found the answer. IE might be slightly slower than some of the 3rd parties, but when you run the OS and Browsers cleans under VISTA or W7, everything is much more stable and reliable...

FWIW most new systems are plenty fast enough that unless you are sitting right next to the web server or have a T1 connection, you won't perceive most performance differences.

[Woodman]

The other thing is that in Windows 7 IE8 each tab tuns in its own memory process, if one is misbehaving, all you need to do is shut it down.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

My “problem” with FireFox is that when you hit an apostrophe, it is the same as hitting CTRL-F (it brings up find). The “fix” for it is to delete the recent history, then it works OK. But WHY can’t they fix this one ... its been around through about 3 updates!