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Old 22nd Nov 2009, 01:35
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belfrybat
 
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Firefox horror

Currently using Firefox 3.5.3, and getting just slightly ticked off. It doesn't leak memory, it bleeds. Just starting it up has a 50+ meg memory impact and gets worse as it goes along. After a while I start getting all kinds of low memory warnings and the box gets slow as sub-arctic molasses. It's no help at all that lots of websites seem bent on locking it up for good with what seems to be a couple of megs of all kinds of scripts.

Is there some way of alleviating this, or some alternative browser with a lighter foot-print? IE doesn't count, I'd rather stay with FF but will consider a change if needed.

Running it on w2k with 256 megs. Old, but works fine with most everything but FF.
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