[Leica] Clearly OT: Firefox 14.0.1 Churning

[robertbaron1 at gmail.com (Robert Baron)]

==On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 6:06 PM, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at 
lighttube.net>wrote:

> This is clearly OT, but I am getting frustrated with the latest version of
> Firefox.  It seems to suffer from memory leak, if that is the term, and
> churns up processor activity repeatedly.
>
> My old Dell desktop, running Windows XP, SP3, has been on for about seven
> hours today, and the memory shown for Firefox is approaching 900,000K, and
> this slows things down considerably.
>
> Has anyone else experienced something similar?
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
>
>
Yes, and this is not at all OT for this list.

Firefox is known for being a memory hog.  At my office, where I have to use
Windows, I periodically see what you report and have to use Task Manager to
kill it ('end process') and then re-start it.  Sometimes I have to re-boot
to get my memory back.

(Hrmmm....I wonder....no, probably not....)

At home with my Macs I use Safari.

--Bob