Buggy Firefox Rant

I’ve been an advocate of web standards (and therefore a user of Firefox) since before most people knew there was a browser other than IE6. Firefox is arguably the browser that brought us out of the dark-ages of the web, however since the v3 upgrade Firefox has been plagued with memory leaks, and the infamous “Firefox is already running on this system” issue.

I hoped 3.5 would fix this, and whilst the latter is now better than it was, it is not eradicated (it would appear they’ve done something to stop it happening rather than fixing what caused it), and nothing has changed with regards to the memory leaks.

In my job my browser is open all day, and by the end of the day Firefox is using around 30% CPU and several hundred MB of ram, it would appear that a lot of other people are having this problem, so lets hope that Firefox 3.6/7 addresses these properly so we can all resume normal service.

In the mean time I’m using Google’s Chrome for my day to day browsing, and Firefox for my debugging (as Firebug is the most valuable tool available to a web developer at the moment!).

Rant over.

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