100 new windows open with firefox at google .com with 30% cpu does that sound bad dont think so! Although its not msn or anything but im testing browser not code!
I've been testing FF 1.5 in Fedora4 and so far it has used about 30MB program overhead and another 1-2MB per website that I load up.If you go into about:config and turn off memory cache, it will still load pages very quickly (especially if you have a fast HD) and then only uses about 35-40MB no matter what pages I load. I have this page, newsforge, ars technica, slashdot, craiglist, ebaum's world, and nvnews all loaded in tabs and its running at 50MB.I definitely dont think the Linux FF has many bloat issues...
Sometimes Firefox crashes on me when I go to paste text into a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) dialog window embedded into a forum reply window. offtopic.com to be exact.
Well, about having to kill "firefox.exe" in the task manager before it will open, Netscape 8 does that too.Links that open in popup windows, such as bookmarklets and the del.icio.us extension, take several minutes to open. I hate that. It's especially annoying when I have to open the window several times, like when I'm making a blog entry and need to change the color.Firefox is also pretty slow to open. It's slow with everything, even though I'm using fasterfox. However, I think all of this happened in older versions, not just 1.5
In my experience, Firefox's performance completely deteriorated between 1.0x and 1.5. I'm using Gentoo, and it makes no difference whether I run normally or in safe-mode. The 'slowness' is in temporary GUI hangs, where the processor usage nears 100% for multiple seconds. It's nothing to do with ipV6.The speed of Opera and Konqueror make them a joy in comparison.. but I can't live without the features of Firefox including extensions.
pacificdaveDec 21, 2005
@mortrekThanks!
Closed AccountDec 21, 2005
100 new windows open with firefox at google .com with 30% cpu does that sound bad dont think so! Although its not msn or anything but im testing browser not code!
dominowreckerDec 22, 2005
well I do think there were less "flaws" with the older version. But I like what they added enough to put up with it I guess.
Closed AccountDec 22, 2005
I've been testing FF 1.5 in Fedora4 and so far it has used about 30MB program overhead and another 1-2MB per website that I load up.If you go into about:config and turn off memory cache, it will still load pages very quickly (especially if you have a fast HD) and then only uses about 35-40MB no matter what pages I load. I have this page, newsforge, ars technica, slashdot, craiglist, ebaum's world, and nvnews all loaded in tabs and its running at 50MB.I definitely dont think the Linux FF has many bloat issues...
haloevoDec 24, 2005
Sometimes Firefox crashes on me when I go to paste text into a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) dialog window embedded into a forum reply window. offtopic.com to be exact.
Closed AccountDec 26, 2005
Well, about having to kill "firefox.exe" in the task manager before it will open, Netscape 8 does that too.Links that open in popup windows, such as bookmarklets and the del.icio.us extension, take several minutes to open. I hate that. It's especially annoying when I have to open the window several times, like when I'm making a blog entry and need to change the color.Firefox is also pretty slow to open. It's slow with everything, even though I'm using fasterfox. However, I think all of this happened in older versions, not just 1.5
arthureiseleDec 31, 2005
i've had 150 mb memory leaks using Firefox 1.5 just browsing regular websites with no flash etc. it's making me consider the opera browser
sabaisabaiMar 20, 2006
In my experience, Firefox's performance completely deteriorated between 1.0x and 1.5. I'm using Gentoo, and it makes no difference whether I run normally or in safe-mode. The 'slowness' is in temporary GUI hangs, where the processor usage nears 100% for multiple seconds. It's nothing to do with ipV6.The speed of Opera and Konqueror make them a joy in comparison.. but I can't live without the features of Firefox including extensions.