Is Firefox 3.5 Crap?

Posted Thursday, 13 August 2009 at 17:32 by Andrew Liu
Tagged: mozilla firefox | web development
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I've been having trouble lately with Firefox constantly crashing on me. Well, not crashing as such, but grinding to a complete halt. When it consumes 100MB+ in memory, and constantly whirs the CPU at 25%-50%, you know something is amiss. Seems like lots of others have a similar issue; perhaps its only within the poweruser community, as I use it every day very intensively, with many addons. Its possible its an addon going haywire, and I suppose its always had memory issues with my default set of addons.

Some forums on memory usage that may help include:

http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/8uaoa/chrome_and_firefox_35_memory_usage/
http://agw.bombs-away.net/showthread.php?p=1186617
http://www.teleread.org/2009/07/07/is-firefox-35-crap/comment-page-1/#comment-1124021

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