Firefox memory leaks
Firefox is great - except for the memory lockups, freezes, and leaks. With several tabs open, Firefox gets sluggish after a few hours, sometimes to the point of being unusable. Shutting it down and restarting virtually always fixes it. Let’s hope the new version addresses these sometimes incapacitating problems. Because they sure are annoying. And a world class browser shouldn’t have such problems in the first place.
Beta 4 of firefox 3 is a whole lot better in this respect (and others!). You can download it here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html. Though your extensions probably won’t work right away, I’ve found the browser to generally be quite stable.
Comment by Matt — March 13, 2008 @ 6:25 pm
[...] and does a pretty good job of it. It really does. Secondly, I got really tired of the memory-sapping behavior of Firefox. Thirdly, I got tired of Firefox crashing on me. Blame whomever/whatever you like, [...]
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