Comments on: Memory leaks, Firefox, Flock and Opera

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By: tom

tom — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 21:09:20 +0000

firefox 3 memory leaks haven’t been fixed. please do not spread misinformation just because of favoritism. at one point on my macbook pro, it ate up 500+ mb but and i had to frequently kill it so other apps could function. but that wasn’t the most frustrated thing i had with it (and safari). these two browsers, at times, couldn’t spin out of a bad embedded object (audio, flash etc.) and pulled all cpu cycles to themselves which rendered my macbook pro unresponsive for several seconds if not minutes.
i’ve tinkered with opera on and off over the years mostly due to the frustration i had with safari and firefox but never really got a hang of it until recently.
i was hanging to firefox for years just because it rendered the page beautifully, especially the handling of the fonts (i have an obscure preference for font sizes and looks).
however, i tested opera 9.5 one day just to see if i could get away from being imprisoned by firefox and safari frequent freezes with flash/embedded-object pages. to my surprise, opera has a marked improvement in handling fonts and appearance. the memory footprint is significantly smaller than both safari and firefox. pages are loaded faster AND best of all, no freezes!!!
needless to say, opera is now my default browser of choice.

opera, i salute thou.

By: NettiCat

NettiCat — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:14:55 +0000

Yes, they fixed the issues with Firefox 3. But only in your dreams.
Dream on.

By: Smifis

Smifis — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 21:21:03 +0000

#Just so everyone know… I have been using firefroz 3 since the day it was released and it is very good, i had noticed the memory leek in firefoz 2.x but they have fixed this in firefox 3.x! Woohh!!!! go firefox. down with Internet Explorer!!!!!

By: Ron Paul Supporter

Ron Paul Supporter — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:03:31 +0000

“The Firefox memory leak is not a bug. It’s a feature! The ‘feature’ is how the pages are cached in a tabbed environment.”

“To improve performance when navigating (studies show that 39% of all page navigations are renavigations to pages visited less than 10 pages ago, usually using the back button), Firefox 1.5 implements a Back-Forward cache that retains the rendered document for the last five session history entries for each tab. This is a lot of data. If you have a lot of tabs, Firefox’s memory usage can climb dramatically. It’s a trade-off. What you get out of it is faster performance as you navigate the web.”

To disable this feature, type about:config in your url bar, then change – “set browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers to ‘0′ ”

I hope this solves the problem…

By: Dog training

Dog training — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 12:07:32 +0000

Very interesting… as always! Cheers from -Switzerland-.

By: thewizardalbany

thewizardalbany — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 01:36:55 +0000

Ferefox 3 beta has just been released and the memory issues with previous Firefox versions have been resolved and it is much faster. Well worth a try!

By: Terr

Terr — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 20:50:14 +0000

“As stated befere: it’s a fault comparing a closed-source costy products with some community open-source product. it’s like comparing photoshop with the GIMP… what the heck!” –ThePeach

“Costy”? I don’t suppose you’d care to admit that Opera is hardly “costly” when the full version is available for free?

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 19:33:27 +0000

Firefox represents a culture of software publishers that’s arrogant, selfish and disrespectful to customers-yet they expect us to use their software. Come on don;t you think the engineers at firefox know about the memory leaks? the issue is that they know this and could care less how it affects the end user. The continue to carry home huge salaries, bonuses and a warped sense of fulfillment that their twisted minds foster. Companies like this are one of many reasons why I support piracy on any level. As a small businessman I am at my last length of frustration with software makers. I think it’s safe to say I am developing an unhealthy hatred for them that’s only lowered by what I see happening to their products with the pirates. Firefox is just another example that’s affecting all our lives. F them