Re: Removing Firefox Version Number

Mohannad schrieb:
> The most serious bug that drives me bananas is the huge memory
> footprint/leak in Firefox. After less than half an hour of use I am
> already hitting a few hundred megs of precious RAM space (I have other
> applications I'd like to use, that need RAM, too) -with no way to
> force garbage collection other than restarting the browser. This seems
> to be the number one complaint for me and the developers I know or
> work with.

1) We have been and continue to be working on reducing memory usage, a 
significant part of that will start to show up in the next release that 
is to come in about 5 weeks and is in Beta now, might help to try how 
much the newest beta helps you.

2) There is an "about:memory" page in newer version, at the bottom of 
which you actually _can_ force garbage collection.

> We might be using more of Google Chrome lately but
> that's only because Chrome seems to manage memory consumption quite a
> bit better than Firefox.

I heard a lot of reports that Chrome actually uses way more memory than 
Firefox, esp. if you're opening a lot of tabs. Be careful to sum up the 
memory of all Chrome processes, though, or you'll only get a 
representation of a tiny fraction of what it actually uses.

> Sent from my Firefox 5.0 (Refusing to upgrade to 6.0 because God knows
> I really need those add-ons working!)

Well, then you refuse an update to a version that already improves the 
memory story slightly...

Robert Kaiser

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