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Disable unnecessary extensions and plugins and Firefox 7 will be instantaneous and memory efficient. Right now on OS X Leopard I have Hacker News, Slashdot, CN
by pythoning 15y ago
Disable unnecessary extensions and plugins and Firefox 7 will be instantaneous and memory efficient.
Right now on OS X Leopard I have Hacker News, Slashdot, CNBC and Huffington Post (yuck) open in FF 7.01 and FF is using 179 MB.
When I had Firebug and the Stumbleupon tool bar enabled as well as some useless plugins that were enabled by default for media types I don't use, these same tabs were using 440 MB.
Google controls my email, phone, SMS and search information, I will not give them browser level access even if they let you opt out of data collection.
I like Firefox, it works great now and is rapidly improving. Mozilla's rapid release cycles should be applauded.
- Bo102010 15y agoMy sister complained to me about the "hanging" Firefox problem, and disabling stupid extensions fixed it right up. Firefox really needs to have a profile-cleaning mechanism. These problems people report must be very system-dependent. I've been running Firefox on my 2GB RAM Dell laptop I bought in 2007 for $600 without any issues.