firefux
posted February 07, 2006 in technology matters

Over the past month or so, my laptop has just been behaving horribly in terms of memory; and it started to dawn on me that the problems coincided with my upgrade to Firefox. Then I read on someone else's blog that he was having trouble with Firefox 1.5 too. Aha! So, it's not just me?!?

So, I Googled Firefox 1.5 problems and found a lot of familiar sounding stuff: huge amounts of memory being chewed up by my favorite browser (and it wouldn't give it back even if you closed tabs and such), freezing, crashes for no obvious reason. But the folks at Mozilla don't seem entirely convinced there is a problem, or if so, what the cause might be.

I've been trying various things I've found through the search results, but so far, the memory hogging (at some points, close to 200MB worth!) has continued to plague me and my poor laptop. It took me forever to give up Internet Explorer in favor of Firefox and now I may be forced to switch again. Waaaaah!

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