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Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?



Hi, Alexander:

On Tuesday 07 September 2010 15:16:26 B. Alexander wrote:
> I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable.

It's not unusable for me.

I'm using Stable and my browser of preference is Konqueror with Iceweasel when 
the site doesn't work properly with Konqueror.

> I 
> have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a 3.0GHz C2D with a
> (lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or xulrunner-stub) have
> memory leaks, and after a couple of days, it eats up a significant amount
> (10-30%) of memory. The work box has 3GB and the home box has 4GB. It also
> eats up a significant amount of CPU.
>
> This morning, after idling all weekend, iceweasel on my work system was
> chewing up between 70 and 100% of my cpus, and scrolling pages were
> hesitating for several seconds.

Don't do that: close your session at the end of day.

Problem solved.

Cheers.


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