[Leica] Clearly OT: Firefox 14.0.1 Churning

[jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)]

Thanks for the feedback, Bob.  I have tried shutting down various tabs and 
processes, but nothing really seems to help.  I use MSN as a homepage, which 
may account for some of the activity that I see.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert Baron" <robertbaron1 at gmail.com>
To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 19, 2012 6:14 PM
Subject: Re: [Leica] Clearly OT: Firefox 14.0.1 Churning


> ==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
>
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