| For those who do not know, I am a FireFox Power User (TM). At work I have over 20 extensions installed, generally as part of a web development system. I also have massive memory woes :-/ At work I must close FireFox at least every 3 hours since it uses upwards of 300MB of RAM with 30 tabs open. At home, with an uptime measured in months, FireFox *averages* 600 MB of memory; necessitating the purchase of another 1 GB DIMM :-/ See comment #41 [spreadthefox.net] for the gory details.
I've been using daily builds for about the last 2 months. I upgrade every time the changelog seems to have more fixes than new bugs...basicaly once a week. I was insanely interested in the patches after 2/28 that *supposedly* fixed the tab memory leak, as this is the bane of my FF experience. However I never realized any improvements, and subsequently, the guy revoked his patch as it didn't fix and indeed broke a great many more things.
FireFox daily builds became completely untenable after the second attempt at a fix on the main trunk, which occurred around the 8th of March 2005. At this point FireFox would load with a fight, after displaying numerous 'missing dlls' warnings, and after just 20 or 30 page refreshes the images would stop loading :-/
Fortuitously, on the 17th they started releasing daily builds of FireFox 1.0.2, and let me tell you, it owns all. [linux binaries] | [windows binaries]. A *serious* bug is that every time I started FireFox from scratch, I would get a "Missing xpcom_core.dll" error message box, 3 or 4 times and the first window to appear would be *totally* frozen. However, I would CTRL N, close the original window and all would be fine. I haven't experienced a single leak with it, though I didn't have nearly as many open tabs today as usual. I also had to re-install a great many plugins :-/
But it is *very* fast and uses the latest gecko engine. I recommend it to virtually every FF user that is fed up w/ 1.0.1 like I was. |
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