I've searched/mroogled and googled for this and I still think it deserves a thread. I have FF 4.01 and so does my wife. We both have Chrome 11 and Safari 5.05. If I leave FF 4 running on either of our machines, it eventually bleeds memory all over and has to be force quit just to make the machine usable. She has an Intel Mac Mini with 1 Gig of RAM. I have a early 2008 Macbook and had 2 Gig of RAM the last time I tried FF. I think I'll give FF 4 another try but for now Chrome is my main browser.
On my work-issued Win 7 machine, I can have FF open with 100+ tabs and it never "takes over" the machine. I have to reboot that machine for other reasons. But on OS X, if I leave FF 4 running for days at a time, and sometimes as short as hours at a time, it goes completely awry. I've submitted a bug over at mozilla about this and subscribed to updates but apparently they don't have it fixed yet.
I've seen some posts that people are having no problem with FF 4 and I'm wondering if there's something I'm doing wrong. For one thing, I enabled sync and can't seem to find a way to shut it down. Back when I first started having these problems, I shut off sync and it got better. For now I use xmarks as it allows me to take my profile from FF to Chrome to Safari and even (cover your eyes for this next bit) IE.
Both my wife and I are on 10.6.7 with the latest updates and when we run FF, it's the latest version (4.01 I think). To some extent this is a moot point as the reason I keep trying FF in the first place is Chrome was not rendering some sites properly. That was Chrome 10. I haven't found one site in Chrome 11 that doesn't work right. Chrome's update pace is blistering. FF seems ancient by comparison. Still, this point mostly out of curiosity I'd like to find out from this esteemed group whether my experience with FF 3.6 and now FF4 is typical...
So how about it? What am I doing wrong or is FF just permanently gimped? I think I'll also make this a poll...
On my work-issued Win 7 machine, I can have FF open with 100+ tabs and it never "takes over" the machine. I have to reboot that machine for other reasons. But on OS X, if I leave FF 4 running for days at a time, and sometimes as short as hours at a time, it goes completely awry. I've submitted a bug over at mozilla about this and subscribed to updates but apparently they don't have it fixed yet.
I've seen some posts that people are having no problem with FF 4 and I'm wondering if there's something I'm doing wrong. For one thing, I enabled sync and can't seem to find a way to shut it down. Back when I first started having these problems, I shut off sync and it got better. For now I use xmarks as it allows me to take my profile from FF to Chrome to Safari and even (cover your eyes for this next bit) IE.
Both my wife and I are on 10.6.7 with the latest updates and when we run FF, it's the latest version (4.01 I think). To some extent this is a moot point as the reason I keep trying FF in the first place is Chrome was not rendering some sites properly. That was Chrome 10. I haven't found one site in Chrome 11 that doesn't work right. Chrome's update pace is blistering. FF seems ancient by comparison. Still, this point mostly out of curiosity I'd like to find out from this esteemed group whether my experience with FF 3.6 and now FF4 is typical...
So how about it? What am I doing wrong or is FF just permanently gimped? I think I'll also make this a poll...