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Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?



On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:16:26 -0400, B. Alexander wrote:

> I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting
> unusable. 

What version of Iceweasel?

Seems that 3.5.x are getting better in preventing that "leaks" and also 
are a bit more resource-wise.

> 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.

Javascript and flash can also make you browser to jump in resources 
consumption...
 
> 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.
> 
> So what do others use?

Iceweasel :-P

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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