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- leesto, on 12/17/2008, -5/+47How's their memory leak fixing going?
I'm a firefox user and its the only thing that slightly annoys me - littleidiot, on 10/12/2007, -8/+38It can rescue you from IE7, but you'll have to rescue yourself from Vista. ;)
- UncommonSense, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20Dramatic improvement regarding memory leaks for FF 2.0. Much lighter and quicker. The only problem might be themes/extensions. Check my post below for a possible solution.
- Chewie67, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12Same here. A solution to the memory leak problems is a must. Otherwise, Firefox is stellar. Hopefully 2.0 brings even more CSS, more speed, more safety and more acceptance in the corporate world.
- UncommonSense, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Only a few themes/extensions are compatible, while others can be forced to be compatible with FF 2.0 with this extension:
http://users.blueprintit.co.uk/~dave/web/firefox/buildid/index.html - Pow3rbook, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Can't Wait! Im using Firefox Beta 1 Now and it works great, Beta 2 must be even better!
- KillerJ59J, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8My avatar owns your avatar. ; )
- AaronMT, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9Negative ghost rider
- Mandeep, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6how come so many people talk about the memory leaks but ive never experienced it on any of the computers ive run that have firefox on them
- bekeleven, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Does it have easy conversion (bookmarks etc)? Also, would the extensions need to be redone or are they good as-is?
- AaronMT, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7There is no memory leak. Firefox uses and requests the memory it needs and allocates it back to the stack when the process is terminated.
- elebrio, on 10/12/2007, -5/+9I've been running beta 2 rc 2 for about a week and I think it's a biiiig improvement over 1.5 AND beta 2 rc 1.
- AgentBarcode, on 01/11/2009, -2/+6I too really hope that FF's memory leaks are a thing of the past. I'm also hoping that it will start-up faster than it does now (I have a fast machine).
- uselessexpert, on 10/12/2007, -7/+11Please!!! I can't wait. I've been beta testing Vista, and I can't stand Explorer 7. Please Firefox, rescue me!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Well guys, the nightly builds are fantastic for me; everything is almost the same except (RSS is actually html-ized, and they've added an x to the tabs) a few things Ive seen. But most of all, it isn't hogging all the memory while having the same ol' smooth interface.
- brundlefly76, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Portable version for eval:
http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/08/21/download-firefox-2-beta-2-rc1-portable-version-available/ - motang, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4The Firefox 2.0 beta 2, so it won't have a code name of Bon Echo
- imdeanlabouty, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Current extensions don't work, except for one that I know of: McAfee Site Advisor. Basically tells you if a site is trustworthy by displaying little icons near the results of search engine...searches?
- tvidas, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4but where is the (or will there be an) official 64 bit version!?
- allan17, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I must be one lucky bastard. I'm running Firefox v 1.5.0.6 on XP with 512 MB of RAM and I've never seen Firefox use over 70,000 K (46,000 K now with 5 digg pages opened in tabs).
- EmileVictor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Too bad Nightly Tools Tester doesn't WORK with bon echo. Try for yourself - it isn't compatible with some newer versions (such as Minefield).
- Justin6512, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1not on the site yet
- szembek, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Firefox Beta 2 is far different from Firefox 2.0 Beta 2. The summary contradicts the title.
- lionwilson, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Looks like it's here...
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/2.0b2-candidates/rc2/firefox-2.0b2.en-US.win32.installer.exe - Utopian, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You're running an hourly build of Bon Echo. Beta 2 is not released until it's released. Do not rely on file names for determining which version of Firefox you're running (they have to change these before the release).
Wait for the official announcement from Mozilla. - wyzish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I love my Opera more than anything, but I will be testing this; I mean you can't critique a application without first putting it through its paces.
Never say I'm not fair :wink: - mwales, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I've been running Firefox 2 beta 1 for weeks now on an AMD64 machine. Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I think it's the same binary for 32-bit and 64-bit linux. If you run it in a chroot env it will act like a 32-bit version.
- nucleocide, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3The other day I was testing a site and realized firefox had gone up to 200MB, and I'm sure anyone reading these comments read the story not too long ago about the 1.5GB memory consumption. I will be so glad when it no longer takes about 1 second to concatenate a 2KB sized string.
- motang, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Sweet, I have using the Beta 2 RC2 for about a week now, and it work great. Also I gotten used to new theme, and I like it very much.
- Justin6512, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1got a link to a mac version of the beta?
- spankaccount, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Since when do people "launch" beta software?
- kb207, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1This one may be???
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0b2/win32/en-GB/ - Hellfire51, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I found that almost all extensions I use worked with 2 beta 1 after using nightly tester tools to force them to install. Only one I recall not working was tab mix plus. I plan on switching to beta 2 as my primary once it is out (I usually check out beta 1 but don't switch to it). Best thing to do if you are unsure is to look in bugzilla to see what known bugs there are for it, and if they are critical to your needs.
- burndive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Yeah, it must be that. It's inconcievable that people would digg them down because the comments in question have nothing whatsoever to do with FF 2 beyond the fact that they're about web browsers. That would mean people were actually interested in having a focused discussion, and it's against the laws of physics to do that on the Internet.
- kb207, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/2.0b2/win32/en-GB/
- fodder650, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Running Firefox 2 beta 2 with 5 windows open I was only (well this being relative to the way it was) at 53MB. I was one of those people who saw the memory leak as well. Its good to see they might have found what it was.
Now about the new look. I'm still not sold on it. I think I liked the old Firefox look. this feels to Microsoft - slythfox, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Lol. I've been running portable versions of nightly builds of firefox 2. Sadly there's still some stuff they need to fix.
I believe memory leaks have been fixed, for the most part. - Eragmus, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Ahaha what a coincidence my current memory usage in firefox is 205 MB -- pretty retarded
Then again, a lot of processes seem to be taking up a lot more memory than they should... Windows =/ - redxii, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1So, Beta 2 RC2 was stable enough to become a fully pledged Beta 2?
- kohan69, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3I'm running firefox Bon Echo Beta 2 (2.0b2)
download:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/pacifica-vm-mozilla1.8/
What's coming this Thursday? - xuperuber, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/xserve03-trunk/
Looks like the developers like to go ahead. - spamzor, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Yeah I agree
edit: useless comment - DinoG, on 10/12/2007, -7/+4Well if this update is really good I might just drop Opera and use Firefox.
- esteban, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1You prompted me to install b2 rc2 and it seems to be a great improvement on beta 1. However on the OS X version of beta 1 they had built-in spell check, just like Safari, it seems to have disappeared from this version which is a shame.
- mcsolas, on 10/12/2007, -4/+0As long as the open / close lots of tabs leak is fixed. I visit so many sites like that. My internet connection sucks and it takes 10+ seconds to load most any page on a good day. Well, you start to like tabs a lot more. Problem is that its FF's main flaw and I frequently go down with 10+ tabs open... if 2 works on that, Im upgrading regardless of the extensions are ready.
- bcore, on 10/12/2007, -6/+1@AaronMT: Evidently you don't understand what a memory leak is. Unless it's your OS which is leaking memory, the leaked memory will always be returned when the process terminates. The problem with current releases of FF are that they allocate memory, and then don't free it when they are no longer using it, leaving less memory (or swap space) available for other processes, and the leaked memory not available to anyone until the process ends, at which point the OS reclaims it. (And allocates it back to the available memory pool, not the stack, incidentally)
As I write this, FF is using 173m of RAM, and will be until i kill it for the night. I can't wait for 2.0 to be released, if it's as much better as people are claiming. - cdiaz, on 10/12/2007, -6/+0Funny how every comment here that says anything positive about another browser gets dugg down. Sad that people are so closed minded. Reminds me of Microsoft zealots back in the late eighties early nineties.
- AaronMT, on 10/12/2007, -16/+8Please oh wise programmers of Digg explain to me how Firefox emits memory leaks but when the browser process is terminated the memory is returned?
Explain to me all you programmers!
/sarcasm - steelmaverick, on 10/12/2007, -19/+4Anyone who doesnt use FF doesnt matter to me. You Opera ans Safari users matter as much to me as IE does.
- DarkSorrow, on 10/12/2007, -19/+1@ pcgeek101, for me, i will switch to Safari
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