Colin Harrington

Why is everything so slow?  Why does it take forever for the laptop to go to sleep? 

Holy thrashing platters Batman — Firefox is taking up 1.25GB of Memory.  I guess it is partially my fault.  Having 126 Tabs open isn’t the nicest thing that you can do, but thats what I did during some intense research.  After I brought it down to about 30 tabs, it still held 1GB.  That is a little too much if you ask me. 

I’ve been a fan of Firefox for a while.  Its attractive because of its extensibility, flexibility, W3C dom, and rendering standards.  I’ve been a fan of good add ons like greasemonkey, Firebug, Better Gmail, View Source Chart, Fullerscreen.  I enjoy using these tools regularly.

I use IE7, and Safari 3, and rarely opera.  Usually its just to make sure my css and javascript are cross-browser compatible.  Each one has it’s strength’s and weaknesses.  Obviously with Firefox, Memory usage is not its strength  

http://dotnetperls.com/Content/Browser-Memory.aspx

I’m hoping that Firefox 3 will help with the Memory usage.  I hope they can adhere to a different model; Weak references please?

I’m also excited to see what the IE8 team is cooking up.

Update:  I’m not so excited to see what IE8 is cooking up for Microsoft’s business plan.  Firefox 3 is Doing great on Mac, Windows and Linux for me.  Yea I wrote this a while ago, but thought it was still worth putting out there.  I don’t use Opera or IE7 much anymore now that I am primarily on Linux (home) & OSX (work)