How to get rid of this???

Cool, must try it some time...

 

Firefox and Memory

Honestly I've never checked on the memory usage of Firefox... I've never felt the suspicion to.
You piqued my curiousity and I've been looking in on it from time to time and mine ranges between 45MB and 55MB.
Now that did suprise me! I expected it to be in the range of 20MB to 30MB...
My browsing habits dictate that I have between two and three windows open with three to five tabs open in each, that's just the way I surf... but even with all that I peak at just 55MBs. Less than a quarter of some of your memory usages.
So I decided to test a little...
I opened five windows and went to five different sites heavy in multimedia content and opened an additional four tabs in each and watched my memory spike to about 151MBs!
...so then I minimized all five and firefox.exe spiraled down to 6MBs.
I restored just one of the windows and tapered off at about 22MBs.
Well, that roughly reflects the way I browse and explains my 50MB average.
I have a few tabs open in a few windows and minimize to shuffle through them. When you minimize Firefox it drops all those uneeded memory caches. I guess Firefox doesn't bother to write caches to disk, I guess it doesn't really need to... and yes I guess that means you get some memory leakage as well.
But even at the height of my little unscientific test while downloading with a few different clients and listening to some music I was still left with a little less than 700MBs of free memory (of my Gig).
I don't know why I need to worry about Firefoxes memory usage...
Now of course everyone's browsing habits differ and everyone's machine is differently equipped, but really that stands for every aspect of computing as well.
I'm an advocate of Firefox but your mileage may very, there are plenty of browser alternatives out there, but I for one like the little program and think a little memory leak is a small price to pay for a malware free web experience.
~Krelian

P.S.: You can also force Firefox to write cache to disk after a certain threshold. =)
Who says Open Source takes the piss?

 

Yup, odd isn't it?

SP2 gives a lot better security on IE. The popup blocker is very good. Mind you, if you wanted you could've used google toolbar before, anyway. I don't see that Firefox has a lot to offer over IE on the popup blocking front.

The most annoying thing for me with it. I'm browsing the forum on the 1st tab of the 1st copy of Firefox, say. Let's say I have this reply open, still typing it. On the 2nd tab, I have a link to another site someone posted.

I also have a second copy of Firefox open. Let's say I was googling in that one.

Someone MSNs me a link. I click on it.

With IE, this would have opened a new window. But oh no, not Firefox! 1st window, 1st tab. Oh, you were writing a message in this window? TOO BAD - ITS GONE!!!

:angry

Oh, and IRC in a browser? LOL, I would NEVER use that! There's no way it would beat mIRC and.... just ewwww!

 

I know for me since microsoft apps pay my bills I am an avid Microsoft fan but with all the virus problems for IE and it would appear most people who write the virus programs are targeting microsoft to quote what I read once "Evil giant" I have found Firefox to help cut down on my risk.

One other part I like on firefox is if something in it I really do not like I have access to the code so I can change it. For me it comparible to a new car over a car in the 60's I will take the older car any day since there are less goverment regulations and less problems with it. Also on an older car I have access to change anything were on a new car part of the software you can not touch.

 

MSN Messenger and Firefox

I haven't had the MSN Messenger link problem, I use Trillian to manage my IMs and it always launches a new window for me (not sure if that's a Trillian setting or a Firefox setting).
I also agree that Firefox is not without it's niggles... I have to launch IE to use my online work scheduling. For some odd reason no matter what settings or plugins I use; the little mouse-over menu that lets me make changes to or notes on my appointments won't come up in Firefox.
I can use Firefox to check company Microsoft Exchange Server-based e-mail though...
~Krelian

 

Try using Photoshop 6 on a pentium 75PC with 64mb of RAM. THAT was utterly slow. PRolly as slow as your experience but I swear it took the damn thing 5 minutes to so a small blur effect on a 50KB jpeg. God forbid I worked with 75mb PSD files, imaging all the virtual memory swapping!!

 

i don't think so, the only thing i can say is that you never have those anoying problems under linux. :smt083

as for the ugly buttons of firefox, you only have to download anohter skin
check mine:


well, i like it anyway, better than the original imo.

edit:
off-topic: i hate the fact that you can't copy past while writing a reply.

 

Eh? Not for me... the only thing that doesn't open its own window is thunderbird, and even then you can still click back and the text you were writing is still there - unlike ie, where if you move back/forwards your message is lost. And that's stock firefox settings for me, so I'm guessing you've removed caching altogether or something?

 

Almost been there.

K6 machine at 433 Mhz, 64MB ram. Photoshop 6. Large images and effects. I could go get something to drink while waiting for it to finish up. Ah, it also had an 800x600 screen. Working with anything graphic-design related was somewhat ... difficult.

I actually updated the RAM on that one up to 160, though, and it started sort of working. I had that one until I had the 128 MB P3.

 

Mandrake

Cahaz uses Mandrake like me! =)
~Krelian