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

[litch.livejournal.com]

My firefox iterations rarely ever run up that much memory, it still uses more memory than I would like but not that high. Currently my memory usage is 170m and my vm size is 190m and that's pretty typical on most machines I use (though I have a lot fewer tabs open than I recall you tending towards (currently 10).

I regularly will leave firefox open with dozens of tabs for days at a time with out much problem.

There were some memory holes fixed in the most recent couple of builds, you are using 2.0.0.9 right?

[yendi]

I'm on the latest version (and have operated with fewer than a dozen tabs in the last few days). It's definitely a leak.