[DUG] Offtopic - but....

[Edward Koryagin]

IE has a lot of security issues...
Edward Koryagin


--- On Tue, 19/1/10, Jeremy Coulter <jscoulter at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Jeremy Coulter <jscoulter at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [DUG] Offtopic - but....
> To: "NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List" <delphi at delphi.org.nz>
> Received: Tuesday, 19 January, 2010, 1:50 PM
> Actually IE is working the best of all of
> them !  Restarting the FF session did sort the memory our
> obivously, but it started increasing straight away.
> Ah well
> 
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:40 PM,
> John Bird <johnkbird at paradise.net..nz>
> wrote:
> 
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> Whatever
> you do don't use IE at the 
> moment!
>  
> (Some
> people in Google are 
> feeling this acutely!)
>  
> Did
> restarting Firefox drastically 
> reduce memory use?
>  
> John
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>   
> From: 
>   Jeremy 
>   Coulter 
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> Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:52 
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>   Subject:
> Re: [DUG] Offtopic - 
>   but....
>   
> Yes I thought 
>   aboutt eh flash stuff, but even when I have pages open
> with no flash it uses a 
>   lot of ram too.......I have already got rid of chrome for
> the same reasons. 
>   Figured it was not worth having 2 memory hungry browsers
> installed 
>   :-)
> 
> Jeremy
> 
> 
> 
>   On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:23
> PM, John Bird <johnkbird at paradise.net.nz>
> 
>   wrote:
> 
>   
>     
>     
>     Firefox does use more ram over 
>     time - restart it and you will find the memory use
> dives.   Its 
>     not all Firefox's fault - some is memory leaks, but
> most is from Flash and 
>     other plugins, so other browsers will do the
> same.
>      
>     Hint
> later versions are usually 
>     better at using less memory! So check your
> version
>      
>     Each
> version gets tighter on 
>     memory usage, for instance I have had 67 tabs open for
> about a day and 
>     Firefox is using 380MB memory.  I am running the 3.7
> nightly alpha 
>     build too (ie the latest bleeding edge) - I have been
> following issues 
>     like this on the Firefox development
> newsgroup.
>      
>     Chrome also can have similar 
>     issues, largely as it uses separate processes for each
> tab and this 
>     increases memory usage too.
>      
>     John
> 
>     I
> 
>       know thi sis offtopic, but does anyone know WHY
> FireFox consumse SO MUCH 
>       RAM ??
>       
> I have 8 tabs open and its usign over 400MB !!  Its 
>       complete madness !  I have started going off Firefox
> lately. On ym 
>       Vista 64bit install at home, I cant do an F5 to
> refresh, I have to do a 
>       CTRL+F5 .....  grrr
> 
> 
> Jeremy
> 
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