Subject: Re: Workaround for Firefox crashiness
To: None <current-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net>
List: current-users
Date: 01/30/2008 12:18:22
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008, Jared D. McNeill wrote:

> Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > > Has made things work much smoother for me.
> > > 
> > There are also memory leaks that eventually kill it, but with a much
> > longer time constant unless you download huge pages.
> 
> Always a ray of sunshine... You should take it up with the Firefox folks. If
> you hadn't noticed, that issue is not specific to NetBSD.


I have heard great things about firefox 3 (available in beta and I haven't 
used 3 myself).

http://www.squarefree.com/2007/09/20/firefox-memory-usage-and-memory-leak-news

(also see http://kb.mozillazine.org/Memory_Leak)


When I set my limits to reduce memory usage of firefox, it continually 
silently crashed. (I don't know what version that was though.)

  Jeremy C. Reed

p.s. Anyone available to port Minimo?