Re:Chrome to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox
by mirzmaster on Thursday September 29, 2011 @05:52PM
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It must be an extension, especially given the recent release of Firefox 7 and its vastly improved long-term memory usage situation.
Anecdotally, I routinely have around 100 tabs open and Firefox runs for days on end, if not weeks. It only gets closed for OS updates requiring a restart.
Re:Chrome to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox
by StrawberryFrog on Friday September 30, 2011 @06:24AM
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Oddly, I also recently switched to chrome. Firefox started randomly freezing up. Sadly, it looks like some corner-cases have slipped through the FF quality control now that they are releasing faster.
I notice that Firefox 7 has gone to 7.01 today. What's changed? It doesn't seem to have helped me.
Re:Chrome to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox
by tedmielczarek on Friday September 30, 2011 @09:07AM
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7.0.1 was just a small change to fix an issue where Add-ons would disappear from the Add-on list after an update:
http://blog.mozilla.com/addons/2011/09/28/issue-discovered-w...
Re:Chrome to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox
by mitultiwari on Thursday September 29, 2011 @05:40PM
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It must be your extensions. Disable all extensions and try FF.
I use FF all the time with 10s of tabs open, and I don't have any issues with stability. My FF window is open for days and some time for weeks.
Re:Chrome to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox
by 51Cards on Thursday September 29, 2011 @06:09PM
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Agreed.. I restart FF maybe once a week and most of the time it's sitting open with 10-15 tabs. If you're having stability issues with FF it's a plugin IMO.
Re:Chrome to take No. 2 browser spot from Firefox
by CWuestefeld on Friday September 30, 2011 @07:18AM
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I'm sure it is an extension. The thing is, I can't easily figure out which one. Since it takes a couple of hours for the problem to occur, it's too much of a big deal to try a binary search of all extensions to figure it out.
Compare to Chrome, which has its own task manager, which shows CPU and RAM usage of each extension.
The stability of FF has been dismal lately. This is largely a memory issue: my system starts to bog down if I leave FF running too long, so I have to restart it at least once a day. But more recently, it hasn't been able to survive more than a couple of hours. It will randomly "tear off" a tab, and then freeze itself using 100% of one CPU core, and must be killed. I assume this is a badly-behaved extension, since I haven't heard the world screaming about it, but I haven't been able to determine which one it is.