[PLUG] Steadily growing firefox 2.0.0.4

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> I recently loaded firefox 2.0.0.4 .  I am wondering whether it is 
> responsible for some every-few-days crashes I have been having. 
> I have all the firefox extensions turned off for the moment.  
> 
> When I started it up 6 hours ago, it was using around 27MB.  It is
> now at 70MB and monotonically increasing, even while displaying
> only the basic Google splash page.   I cleared the private caches,
> with no effect.  
> 
> I typically leave a firefox window ( or three or four or ten ) open
> all the time.  This could be the source of my crashes, as it eats
> up all my memory.  Any suggestions of other things to look at in
> order to debug this?
> 
> Keith
> 

Look at Seamonkey ;)

But seriously, if Firefox 2.0.0.4 is leaking memory, that ought to be a
well-known issue, as popular as Firefox is. I've been Firefox-free (and
Thunderbird-free) for nearly two months now and the only thing I've
found that Seamonkey doesn't do is RSS feeds.