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Using it now. Looks the same as 4. All add-ons worked fine. Seems a little faster but that might be because my previous firefox process had been up for about

Using it now. Looks the same as 4. All add-ons worked fine. Seems a little faster but that might be because my previous firefox process had been up for about 3 days and had gotten all slow.

weaksauce 15y ago
Yes there must be some kind of memory leak or fragmentation that makes ff slow after a few days of running. I see the same thing on os x mbp.
- chrisjsmith 15y ago
  Had the same problem although Firefox usually crashed before I got a few days out of it.
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- marcocampos 15y ago
  Most of the time it's a extension that is leaking memory or causing the slowdown. It's been like that for years.
- capnrefsmmat 15y ago
  Yes, there were a number of leak bugs fixed between 4 and 5, and the Mozilla guys are chasing after tons more. They've created a project specifically to chase down leaks and bloat issues, and you can see the various tracking bugs there: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink More fixes will be in Firefox 6 and 7, it looks like. Here's a particularly fun bloat fix that should be headed for 7: http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/2011/06/21/you-make-what-you-measure/ http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/2011/06/21/you-make-what...