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.

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[rowancat.livejournal.com]

Oh, and i'm using Version 1.5.00.12.
I refuse to upgrade till they work the bugs out.
Memory leakage has always been a big issue with Firefox...
That said, i rarely use more than 2 or 3 tabs.

Startups-it seems like every piece of software now wants
*instant* access on bootup to te net to look for updates.

Occasionally causes a reboot when the system gets confused and overloaded.
(using one size fits all verizon dsl usb drivers that suppress the normal
windows plug and play for usb doesn't really help- all of those reboots
are stop errors caused by device driver, about one per week.
Used to be 1-2/day till i did some tweaking and downloading updates.
Still looking for updated ethernet drivers... mumble.