Firefox 1.5 stability problems?

sra

1.5 actually works much better for me that any previous version ot Firefox.

I used to get the problem of Firefox freezing and then not shutting down (when you get the 'profile already in use warning') a few times a week

Hasn't happened once with 1.5 - and I've been using it for months.

On the negative, Firefox certainly takes up lots of memory. And I close it whenever I can because of the memory leak when it's left running too long.


Despite all its problems, I still think Firefox is the best browser out there - mainly down to the amount of customizations you can peform. Whenever I try to use any other browser (and I give them all a good test) I just find it take o lot of extra time to do things I can do very quickly and easily with Firefox.

esuhl

I use the latest version of Mozilla (as opposed to Firefox). It takes a second or so to load on my fast AMD 3700+ PC and maybe 5 seconds on my old PIII 666Mhz PC, and it's also VERY stable - I think it crashed once about 18 months ago.

djohn2002uk

I'm using Firefox 1.5 now and it's using 24.8Megs but IE is using 32.3Megs and I'm not even using it.


Edit: My mistake, Windows Explorer not IE....:o

wolfman

Try Opera if you find it's using a lot of memory. Opera sometimes eats up a lot too but very rarely. It loads quicker than firefox (both warm and cold loads) and is a truly tabbed application so you can open up dozens of tabs without it using up a lot more resources.

Having said that I've found Firefox 1.5 to be fine. It's definitely slightly quicker doing certain things than 1.07 was. I just use it for development though, Opera is my browser of choice.

I think by default Firefox is set to use up as many resources as are available, hence it sometimes shows up at over 100mb in the task manager.

intel

djohn2002uk wrote:

I'm using Firefox 1.5 now and it's using 24.8Megs but IE is using 32.3Megs and I'm not even using it.


Edit: My mistake, Windows Explorer not IE....:o

Wierd Im using IE with 5 Open IE Windows and its 24.2Megs...

And Fire Fox is using 39.4Megs with 4 tabs Open.....

Both Browsers have no extra skins or add ons or plugins,
and they are both looking at the same sites.......

djohn2002uk

Just chatted to a mate of mine and his Firefox is using 39Megs and Thunderbird 37Megs. Mine is still only 27Megs and I haven't had any probs like freezing.

Edit: Big spike when I post this reply.

intel

djohn2002uk wrote:

Just chatted to a mate of mine and his Firefox is using 39Megs and Thunderbird 37Megs. Mine is still only 27Megs and I haven't had any probs like freezing.

Edit: Big spike when I post this reply.

This is all very strange......

GibsonSt19

108mb here:eek:

djohn2002uk

:eek: That's because it needs a boost to get over the top of Snowdon. :eek:

intel

Hey Gibson

Maybe your PC is powering one of thier download servers... :rotfl: