Breaking News: Crash ANY Version of FireFox
October 6th, 2006 - By: Alex Bailey
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This is sort of a joke, but it really does crash FireFox. I was reading people's thoughts about how FireFox sucked, and one of them mentioned thousands of bugs. So I headed over to their bugzilla page, and saw over 9 thousand of them. Well in my default browser IE7 it rendered the whole page using 86 MBs of ram. It lagged IE while rendering but nothing horrible. I couldn't resist trying this with FireFox. Opened it up, and had a "Please wait..." message. Woah 200 MBs of ram! What's going on, I thought FireFox was superior? Oh wait it's not done. 483 MBs of ram in total. Then FireFox froze. Ahh well better luck next time.
Game over. Carful kids, don't try this at home. BugZilla link can be found here. System requirements for FireFox to load this page:
1 Gig memory
Dual core processor
FireFox a lot of bugs, so this list is rather large. Don't bother with dial-up.
1. Anonymous | October 17th, 2006 @ 6:01 PM |
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Doesn’t crash Opera and takes up no where near as much resources as Firefox does. =)
2. Rob F | October 19th, 2006 @ 5:45 PM |
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It seems to work fine for me (I am running on a fairly slow Linux system). It used 140mb of memory. Firefox’s memory management is COMPLETELY different from IE’s, and the parser for tables is also different. The firefox was may be more resource intensive, but it results in a quicker response time (in my opionion).
Also note, the whole list is not “bugs”. It include “feature requests” and even items as small as “rename Yahoo to Yahoo! in search bar”. I’m sure the IE team has a similarly large bug database. Also remember, ANYONE (you, me, joe shmoe) can create a bug. There are duplicates and items that are not “firefox” bugs, but user error.
3. Rob F | October 19th, 2006 @ 5:47 PM |
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As another note, the list you brought up contains reports for the 1.0 branch, the 1.5 branch and the 2.0 branch. On top of that, they are supporting Windows, Mac, and *unix operating systems.
4. EtrnlEvil | November 20th, 2006 @ 12:26 AM |
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Running this website and 2 other tabs with 17 extensions installed all under 75 mb’s of memory. Btw, i’ve got a single core processor, and only 512 mb of memory. Firefox is superior to IE 7 in just it’s security. So i have no clue how you broke 400 mb using firefox without breaking 100 in IE.
And though there are a TON of reported bugs, like others have said, duplicates, all os’s, feature requests,.. etc. Mozilla rolls out a new update almost every month lately. They’re on top of the most important bugs, which is something IE can’t say.
5. mjgajda | November 29th, 2006 @ 5:42 PM |
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Well, my Firefox didn’t crash, but I’m running Linux. I guess it helps to many kinds of crashes… which may be caused by errors in standard libraries.
And by the way: yes, memory usage was 189MB,
but it is usually about 50MB after a fresh start.
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