Posted: 11/1/2005 6:47:40 PM EDT
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I caught this screenshot tonight... I only had 3 windows open with "low-demand" stuff...  Any solutions? ETA: Changed title since I've answered the question... |
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| This is a well-document problem of "memory leakage" with Firefox, ie not releasing memory when you're through, and not to mention that it is also letting through pop-unders and pop-overs. My Foxfire is currently at 171,780. The only way to reset that is to close down all your Foxfire windows and start it up again. |
That's what I figured... I have to do that too but, I thought it was just me. I guess it just takes longer to slow down with 2 Gigs of RAM... It's a shame that such a good program would have this problem... |
If you do it, how do you get back out? That is the real question. Could you save yourself from a reboot?  I caught Explorer having just as bad of a Memory Leak one night as Firefox.
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The scumware programmers are starting to hit Firefox... which contrary to popular belief is no more secure that IE. Matter of fact about twice as many critical flaws have been found in Firefox in the last 6 months than IE. Give Opera a try... best browser out there right now. And run a program or 2 that actively trys to catch spyware |
Who's been using my computer? |
Meh. Been running about 18 tabs open since 6:30pm 
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I was a heavy user of Opera, it too has the same probem, and uses up memory even faster, I've got 768MB of main memory. I downloaded a new version and it loaded some spyware on my machine. Fortunately Spybot caught it and deleted it. I just hate the games these people are playing with my browser. IE is starting to look better. I've found that some stuff on Foxfire and Opera don't function, so I have to switch to IE. Actually IE has been pretty good, I've haven't had any viruses loaded since I load ed Teatimer registery monitor. Sorry to hijack, now back to our regularly scheduled program. |
 People still run Litestep??!!
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2 months and I have had no memory leak problems with Opera... and no spyware loaded during the install. |
Do you play BF2? |
whole bunch of us do war gaming |
BF2 is not wargaming... fun but not a wargame. |
No, why? |
 Its a FPS war game.. And theres many threads in the WARGAME forum.
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It is not a wargame, certainly not in the traditional sense. You can call a duck a eagle and name the forum you talk about ducks in the eagle forum… a duck is still a duck. Really a matter of semantics I guess. |
What do you consider a wargame anyway? BattleField 2 is good guys and bad guys batteling it out. It's a war game to me. |
HOLY SHIT!!! 
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| I run Deerpark Alpha 2 (next generation of Firefox). I'd love to tell you they fixed all the leaks, but I can't. Most of the leaks come from code downloaded from sites (jsp's and the like) which don't clean up after themselves. Crapware. With cheap memory and processors and tolerant users software engineers don't produce quality code anymore. Time to market is much more important and it drives new PC sales. |