Why Firefox frustrates me

[yendi]

11% CPU usage is bad enough, but that at least fluctuates and can go down. 2.5GB of virtual memory? Fuck no. And nearly 400MB of real memory? Motherfucking no.

I love a lot of what Firefox offers, but it leaks memory like nobody's business.

And yes, I don't doubt that Google Reader and GMail contribute, as do any sites that run Flash (I keep Java turned off, as no site needs to even think about running Java apps without my permission, thank you very much; otherwise, I think I'd be at 4GB of vm usage). But we live in a Web 2.0 world; if the browser can't keep up, that's a problem, no matter how fast it can render a page of html.

Comments

[yendi]

I tend to kill animated gifs whenever I can, but I've found that they've gotten more rare recently (as flash and other options seem to be the preferred option, once you get past the realm of LJ icons).

[darth-spacey.livejournal.com]

More Opera pimpage...

In Opera, you can selectively enable and disable image-loading, GIF animation, Flash, Javascript and Java on a per-site basis with a couple of mouse-clicks -- even less if you drag the relevant controls to your toolbar.

[yendi]

I'd resisted Opera for a while, as the Mac version has historically lagged behind the other ones, but I did download and install the latest beta. It seems nice so far, although I'm probably not going to decide for sure between Safari/Opera/OmniWeb until I've used them all for a few weeks.