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Moreover, I know that I will be facing with more crashes with a beta. Firefox 3.0b5 hasn't crashed once on my laptop (Ubuntu) or desktop (Vista), and I've been

by rlm 18y ago

Moreover, I know that I will be facing with more crashes with a beta. Firefox 3.0b5 hasn't crashed once on my laptop (Ubuntu) or desktop (Vista), and I've been using it since it got released. On top of that, I can't imagine what you have done to your Firefox 2-install, if it crashes that often and you reach that high CPU- and memory usage. Something besides the main Firefox install must be fubar'ed...

rovivor 18y ago
Be sure that it is not only me having these kind of problems, especially memory usage problem. You can check Stan's post and its comments out, there is a link on my post.
handelaar 18y ago
"Firefox 3.0b5 hasn't crashed once on my laptop (Ubuntu)" You've disabled Flash then, I assume. I can't keep the browser on for much more than an hour here without Flashblock. Beta 5 is certainly faster and less memory-profligate than 2.0 was, though.
- bootload 18y ago
  "Firefox 3.0b5 hasn't crashed once on my laptop (Ubuntu)" Has for me and maybe it is because I have flash enabled for fox2... thanks for the tipoff.
thaumaturgy 18y ago
I don't have crashing problems, but I do have the same disappointing memory and CPU usage problems that many others have reported. I'm not running much on my Firefox -- just ABP and Firebug, which is usually disabled until I need it. Based on what I've read, Firefox's memory trouble is not just about memory leaking, but also about a less-than-stellar memory allocator which causes it to fragment its heap badly, which in turn forces it to continue to grow its heap ever outward. In FF3 the Mozilla team spliced in FreeBSD's jemalloc and that seems to work better.
andreyf 18y ago
On top of that, I can't imagine what you have done to your Firefox 2-install, I can: I am now using more extensions than I was using and life is even easier, no problem with this.
- rovivor 18y ago
  I have 23 extensions in total.
alyx 18y ago
Although Firefox 3.0b5 is better overall, currently it crashes each time I try to log into Godaddy.

by rlm 18y ago

rovivor 18y ago

Be sure that it is not only me having these kind of problems, especially memory usage problem. You can check Stan's post and its comments out, there is a link on my post.

handelaar 18y ago

"Firefox 3.0b5 hasn't crashed once on my laptop (Ubuntu)" You've disabled Flash then, I assume. I can't keep the browser on for much more than an hour here without Flashblock. Beta 5 is certainly faster and less memory-profligate than 2.0 was, though.

bootload 18y ago
"Firefox 3.0b5 hasn't crashed once on my laptop (Ubuntu)" Has for me and maybe it is because I have flash enabled for fox2... thanks for the tipoff.

thaumaturgy 18y ago

I don't have crashing problems, but I do have the same disappointing memory and CPU usage problems that many others have reported. I'm not running much on my Firefox -- just ABP and Firebug, which is usually disabled until I need it. Based on what I've read, Firefox's memory trouble is not just about memory leaking, but also about a less-than-stellar memory allocator which causes it to fragment its heap badly, which in turn forces it to continue to grow its heap ever outward. In FF3 the Mozilla team spliced in FreeBSD's jemalloc and that seems to work better.

andreyf 18y ago

On top of that, I can't imagine what you have done to your Firefox 2-install, I can: I am now using more extensions than I was using and life is even easier, no problem with this.

rovivor 18y ago
I have 23 extensions in total.

alyx 18y ago

Although Firefox 3.0b5 is better overall, currently it crashes each time I try to log into Godaddy.