FireFox
 

Is it just me, or is this current version (3.07) as unstable as .....some of the psychotic people on here that know exactly who I'm talking about?

it fucking crashes daily....and i have to end the process before i can restart it.

wtf!

I'm not having any problems with it.

my laptop is okmostly....with vista on it...

the home desktop and this POS are both XP and crash or lock up regularly. it uses a shit ton of memory.

I've been noticing that too, but thought it was due to some antivirus software and other software updates our IT people installed on my PC.

OH, it's happening to you guys too? It keeps happening to my old desktop, but my newer laptop is fine. XP v Vista. I thought my desktop was just shitting on me.

Check your add-ons, some of them really eat up memory and make things unstable

I've got 3.0.7, no problems here or at home (2 XP boxen and 1 Vista)

I'm using SeaMonkey, which is a cousin of FireFox, on two Vista laptops. I'm not having any problems.

will try this....

i did have a few non necessary ad-ons running....

I'm using Firefox on an older PC with XP home on it, no problems.

I have it running with no issues on Linux, OS X, and Windows.

Check your add-in programs, because some of them will cause issues.

Also, check your toolbars, as there are a few third-party toolbars that can cause issues.

Additionally, if you have an AntiVirus program that "plugs in" to the browser (yes, McAfee and Symantec, I mean you!), you may want to check for updates to that.

I use 3.0.7 on my XP Pro desktop at home with no problems and also on my dual-core Vista laptop. I have no problems I can trace to Firefox. Now, VISTA is unstable as hell and I'm about to chuck it and go to Ubuntu. If only I can figure out the config files to work with the hibernate and sleep and such.

Any gurus want to help?

Brian,

What kind of laptop are you running Vista on? I'm not trying to sound strange here, but I've actually had it running incredibly stable on my Dell Optiplex 320 (Pentium 4 3 Ghz, 2GB RAM, ATI chipset with x300 graphics). Are you running a Toshiba?

I've got my 3.07 version fairly loaded up with add-ons with no problems other than a slow load time. My computer is a very underpowered 2.0 ghz single core with 1.5GB ram.

If it persists, I recommend you disable your add-ons one by one and see if it improves.

PS. Darn. I really should have read through the entire thread. UT already suggested it.

I have several times gotten messages telling me that a website will not resolve, and it just kind of gives up.

MS Exploiter hops right onto them, though.

Have you guys checked Chrome out? I just started using it and I've heard it's pretty powerful.

http://www.chromeexperiments.com

Mitch, it is a Hewlett-Packard laptop with an AMD Athlon X2 64 bit CPU, 2 gig RAM and a 180 gig HD. I bought it from Sam's because it was cheaper than other places when I needed a replacement for my PII Toshiba.

The laptop is fairly stable but the OS just crashes sometimes, no obvious reason. I just shrug and says, "Windows, what do I expect?" and reboot. My Linux machine has been running without a hiccup for three years now. All it does is run SETI though. And do network backups once in a while.

Brian

Brian,

And let me guess, you've flashed the BIOS on it multiple times and it still sucks? :) The laptop should run fine with Ubuntu...I am sure there is a wiki out there with the ACPI settings you need. If worse comes to worse OpenSUSE should work, especially for the weird wireless chipsets the vendors use.

Flash?.....BIOS?.....What are these strange terms?

What does ACPI stand for?

I'm a trucker, not a ComSci major!

You guys do know Firefox has massive memory leaks, right?

The only reason I still use FF over Opera for my main browser is the add-ons and themes.

BDS,

Firefox 3 fixed many of them. That was true for Firefox 2.x.

BrianR,

Unfortunately HP doesn't know how to ship anything right out of the box, so you need to go on their support site and download updates from them to make things work somewhat right :).

mbpark,

So why the hell is Firefox 3.07 currently using +300,000K RAM on my brand new Dell Studio 17 laptop with two tabs open?
That's more than some games use, btw.

mine is using 80,000k.

I think its because of the add ons and other shit you got running.

AdBlockPlus, AVG Safe Search, CoolIris, DownThemAll!, Fission, FoxTab, Greasemonkey, Hide Menubar, MultiRow Bookmarks Toolbar, Snap Links Plus, StumbleUpon, Tab Mix Plus, The Nethernet, Torbutton.

Admittedly, quite a few. But when I first boot firefox it's only at 80,000k.

then they start kickin in and WHAM!

Try removing a few systematically - maybe one of them has an issue.

i suspect nethernet

since i uninstalled that, ive been ok

With that many add-ons, I'm surprised the lights in your neighborhood aren't going dim.

BDS,

Because you don't take into consideration the memory usage of these add-on after they load and start caching tons of data :).

Apparently you have more than most people, but don't have the most important ones of all, FlashBlock and NoScript, which actually help reduce memory usage by cutting out the Flash and Javascript programs that you do not want to run.

There are Flash and Javascript programs I don't want to run?
Quite frankly, I'm not too fussed about Firefox's memory, my laptop can easily handle it.

Fucker crashes on me all the time. And ditto on the end process thing.

So, just why did you post, if you don't care?

=/=

I cared when I told you lot about the memory leaks earlier... I don't, however, care about the memory leaks on MY computer, particularly.