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

[texmorgan.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you pointed this out, mine has climbed from 86MB to 100MB in just the past 10 minutes or so. I think it might be time for me to switch browsers possibly to Opera or one of the others that Linux comes with that is more efficient.

[yendi]

Once the new year hits, I'm going to do a serious reevaluation of my browsers. If Safari 3 is out of beta and stable, I could well switch back. Ditto if Opera offers a decent forms autofill feature.