firefox4 memory eating monstrus

Carpetsmoker said:
Isn't it fair to say this is a problem with firefox itself?
Then all extensions would have leaks. Most don't. Properly coded add-ons won't have them. Of course, you could say FF should have protections in place against such things but others might say that's not its job.

They do have a page up of the worst offending add-ons.
 
Not trying to turn this into flame war (if it hadn't turn already), but Firefox always had memory/performance issues on all of my FreeBSD machines. No exceptions. More than several tabs of web content and its fried. I had FF use up to 1.5 GB of memory regularly. Opera always had upper hand when it comes to performance, speed and usability. It punches (most) of the addons you'll ever need in 10MB.
Anyway never understood why people like FF just because its opensource and Opera is closed source.
Open source doesn't equal quality software and vice versa. Linux is open, but it still sucks.
 
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