Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
Vimperator inside iceweasel !
When firefox 4.0 arrives (there is iceweasel 4 beta available for
testing in http://glandium.org/blog/?p=1032), then only one tag will
hang (or it they promisses)
Vimperator Rocks! :-)
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