In reply to a post by 12eason:

The improvement has nothing to do with a leak. They are just general improvements to the memory management as I've already mentioned. The author of that blog thinks there's a leak, but he's wrong. You'll notice his 'test' is pathetically trivial.

are you saying I am wrong also?

ifi memory usage keeps going up with no data been loaded into the program, then what is it if its not a leak?

In reply to a post by Sark:

Define efficient. Reducing peak memory usage, generally speaking, is not something worth spending money on nowadays given that the memory capacity of most PCs far exceeds the requirements of the applications that run on it. If you're hitting paging problems with your PC then you need to install more memory. Having Mozilla waste thousands of man hours shaving x% off peak memory is not going to solve your problem.

dont you consider it a problem when an app can fully utilise 8 gig of ram via leaks?

also to get ff4 to use 8 gig of ram is fairly trivial, with no addons, and only about 10 pages/tabs loaded.

dont you consider it a problem when an app can fully utilise 8 gig of ram via leaks?

Yes, of course that is a serious problem. It isn't what I replied to, though.

It's a feature.

Cookies lost twice in the space of a week with firefox - Not doing anything funky to cause it. Can only think this is the result of FF6.

Luckily, if I go into profile, it has created a sqlite.backup so just rename that back to sqlite.

Sorry this tech stuff is way beyond me. But for those who simply want to use the darn thing, I've found the transparency feature is not FF at all, but a W7 'benefit'. It can be removed by right-clicking on desktop, select Personalisation, Window Color, uncheck Transparency.

Those with vision problems will find things easier to read. But the buttons are still switched about and a big chunk across the top of the screen is still wasted. I wish Mozilla had left a good programme well alone.