mozilla firefox 2.0 is now finally availible.

Post by **badinsults** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 12:00 am

MisterJones wrote:
Metatron wrote:
franpa wrote:just having this page and agn forums open eats up 62mb of ram.
...You're joking. That makes Opera look like it eats no memory.
Opera eats less memory that firefox ever will navigating the same amount of pages with pictures.

You have to be kidding me. Firefox's memory leaks max out around 70 MB on my system, whereas I have seen Opera take up more than 150 MB. It is absolutely horrible (although Opera's benefits certainly make it worth using over Firefox).

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 1:53 am

Aaron wrote:
snkcube wrote:So they might've fixed those memory leaks?
Firefox does not "leak" memory..

I see. I'll keep that in mind.

darkbenny · Post by **darkbenny** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:24 am

I still like Firefox.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 2:50 am

i have to agree with badinsults... when it exceeds 71.5mb it drops back below 70mb.
(this is with 8 webpages open)

aargh... it just keeps changing its now around 73mb... thus i think there still is a memory leak as it is increasing still...

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:44 am

franpa wrote:i have to agree with badinsults... when it exceeds 71.5mb it drops back below 70mb.
(this is with 8 webpages open)

aargh... it just keeps changing its now around 73mb... thus i think there still is a memory leak as it is increasing still...

According to Aaron, Firefox doesn't have "memory leaks".

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Tue Oct 03, 2006 8:56 am

mmm, yea i still think it does cap it at 70mb... but it forces that limit rather loosely... so you do see it go over it etc. but it will eventually jump back below 70mb every so often...

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 1:38 am

release candidate 2 is out now... just update your browser with its built-in updater.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 3:07 am

Oh goodie, I can see the final release being launched pretty soon.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 3:18 am

They better have far better memory management... if valgrind doesn't work on the Linux version.. it's already a tipoff.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 4:36 am

8 tabs uses 50 - 80mb of ram... it constantly fluctuates... maybe the high ram use at the moment is related to debugging stuff in these beta's/wips/RC's

[firefox 2.0 RC 2... choose your language]
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/bonecho/all-rc.html

Nightcrawler · Post by **Nightcrawler** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 1:52 pm

I'm still using Firefox 1.5.0.7. I swear something has been fixed since I last closely monitored memory useage(two or three minor versions before 1.5.0.7).

I used to see up to 90mb after using the net for a few hour on many tabs. So far this week, I haven't seen anything beyond 70 as you guys are seeing in RC2. In fact, with 4 tabls open now, it's only at 37megs.

I never use plugins here at work. I'd have to assume some bugs were patched up. That makes me happy. I have previously ranted how Firefox ate up MORE memory than Mozilla. However, it appears this may finally be set right.

Jipcy · Post by **Jipcy** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 5:17 pm

Release Candidate 3 is out. Download from the same place.

Has anyone who'se been using a release candidate have any problems with bugs / crashes / data loss, etc?

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 7:53 pm

only with embedded wmp files.

where it used to work on occasion, now it will crash my browser every single time. embedded flash, quicktime, just about anything else is fine, though.

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:10 am

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla ... n32/en-US/

Seems like 2.0 came out today. I'll be installing it soon.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:12 am

that would be a release candidate more likely... http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:25 am

Nope. It's the real deal.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 6:40 am

lol, yep just installed it and it looks like it is but im still not 100% sure... anyways the date says yesterday

so it wasnt released today...

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 7:06 am

franpa wrote:lol, yep just installed it and it looks like it is but im still not 100% sure... anyways the date says yesterday so it wasnt released today...

the firefox team lead lives in New Zealand.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:58 am

funkyass wrote:
franpa wrote:lol, yep just installed it and it looks like it is but im still not 100% sure... anyways the date says yesterday so it wasnt released today...
the firefox team lead lives in New Zealand.

There's a time warp in some people's minds... or it could be a messed up time/space distortion ripping the fabric of the space-time contiunum...

I'm sure the time zone is affecting some people's minds though...

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Tue Oct 24, 2006 11:52 am

they live in new zealend... i live in australia... they released it yesterday...

snkcube · Post by **snkcube** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:02 am

So uh, Firefox 2.0 isn't so bad. I like how much more organized it is now. Plus, the built in spell checker is nice too.

sweener2001 · Post by **sweener2001** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 3:33 am

i'm still on RC3, but i concur.

i really enjoy this new version.

Oskar_Hanberg · Post by **Oskar_Hanberg** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:09 am

I like it. the only complaint I have about the new version is that you now close tabs by clicking on an X positioned ON the tab, rather than to the right of the screen, and the GO button is now to the right of the address bar. But I guess I'll get used to it.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:16 am

Oskar_Hanberg wrote:I like it. the only complaint I have about the new version is that you now close tabs by clicking on an X positioned ON the tab, rather than to the right of the screen, and the GO button is now to the right of the address bar. But I guess I'll get used to it.

It has more to do with better usage of space, plus to make tabs behave more like Opera (it is better behavior IMO, but that's because I use it primarily atm).

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 7:21 am

http://board.zsnes.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8734

oskar this thread has some info on getting it back to the old tab behavior.