Comments on: Breaking News: Crash ANY Version of FireFox

By: mjgajda

mjgajda — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 17:42:34 +0000

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.

By: EtrnlEvil

EtrnlEvil — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 00:26:31 +0000

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.

By: Rob F

Rob F — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:47:49 +0000

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.

By: Rob F

Rob F — Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:45:36 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:01:01 +0000

Doesn’t crash Opera and takes up no where near as much resources as Firefox does. =)