nail in the coffin moment.

I added my stored ff3.6 session to ff6 and restarted.

memory usage a whopping 900meg, this is with only 1 tab in each window loaded (rest not loaded due to bartab) so 22 windows, 22 tabs loaded, plus 5 more tabs which set to always load, 27 tabs using 900meg. Within 5 mins of been loaded its using a gig of ram. so 100meg has leaked.

incidently bartab broke even more in ff6 than it does in ff5. The latest news also is that firefox are planning to hide the version number in the about window, I assume this is in response to people not liking the rapid release schedule so firefox want to pretend they not doing major version bumps every 6 weeks and pass them off as stability and security updates.

Is fair to say ff4,ff5,ff6 all feel like betas and ff6 actually feels like an alpha release, so to me its enforced beta testing of new features.

My memory usage now whilst still typing is 1.16gig of ram on ff6 firefox.exe so its chewed up nearly 200meg ram in the time it has taken me to type, and its stuttering like crazy, letters appearing after I type. I am now putting down the imrpoved performance that I was using it with hardly any tabs loaded.

with the same tabs/windows ff3.6 uses 315meg on startup and usually creeps up to maybe just under 400meg after weeks of uptime.

Edited by Chrysalis (Mon 22-Aug-11 10:30:10)

Has FF6 fixed the iGoogle problem that FF4 had?

http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/802571

I've reverted to IE9 because neither iGoogle nor Freecorder Toolbar work properly in FF4. IE9 was a pleasant surprise.

Still on FF 5.0.1 here. Maybe it's the laptop, but there's a plugin which activates on some streaming and starts heating up the CPU. Is that normal? Like I say with the lappy it's maybe more noticable, as after 20 mins of 20-30% CPU usage there's decent heat.

it loads here, but my guess its to do with the new privacy option in ff5/6. My google was flunky until I disabled that (couldnt save settings etc.). FF3.6 is actually 276meg ram with this session, so was lower than my other post. Now I am just using ff6 for a few sites and FF3.6 for the main session. I may even give chrome a try now as I think firefox have completely lost it. 3.6 will eventually go EOL.

I wont even try to report my findings with ff6 as I will just get shot down by fanboys and the dev's. "I cant hear you" with hands to their ears.

probably flash plugin, now FF has a thing called plugin container which seperates things like flash from the main app, the original idea was if flash crashed then firefox wouldnt crash with it, but I use it now to escape stuttering as it stops firefox laggyness making flash stutter. In ff3.6 its not used by default, maybe it is in ff5. But it doesnt cause extra cpu usage. If the same streaming has lower cpu in another browser than I dont know what to comment on that.

Yup, it's the Adobe Flash plugin container.exe

Causes 10-20% (I overstated before) CPU usage. Must be the lappy not liking continuous CPU usage, heat-wise. No matter.

odd, there is a way to disable it, google for it. I dont know off hand sorry.

I think you will find tho the cpu usage will simply transfer to firefox.exe. Modern flash can be quite cpu intensive on low spec machines, and even sometimes on high spec machines.

The video streams in question will not work if disabled. It's a plug-in you see. Like I said, it's no big deal, but I wondered if it was a specific FF plugin issue, rather than any old browser issue. Just tried it in IE 7.0.6 and IE invokes no plug-in, and uses 2-8% CPU for the same vid.

Hmm.

IE will invoke the flash plugin/addon. No browsers have built in support for flash.

To disable the plugin container edit this in about:config. dom.ipc.plugins.enabled set to false. Restart firefox if needed.

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nail in the coffin moment.

I added my stored ff3.6 session to ff6 and restarted.

memory usage a whopping 900meg, this is with only 1 tab in each window loaded (rest not loaded due to bartab) so 22 windows, 22 tabs loaded, plus 5 more tabs which set to always load, 27 tabs using 900meg. Within 5 mins of been loaded its using a gig of ram. so 100meg has leaked.

incidently bartab broke even more in ff6 than it does in ff5. The latest news also is that firefox are planning to hide the version number in the about window, I assume this is in response to people not liking the rapid release schedule so firefox want to pretend they not doing major version bumps every 6 weeks and pass them off as stability and security updates.

Is fair to say ff4,ff5,ff6 all feel like betas and ff6 actually feels like an alpha release, so to me its enforced beta testing of new features.

My memory usage now whilst still typing is 1.16gig of ram on ff6 firefox.exe so its chewed up nearly 200meg ram in the time it has taken me to type, and its stuttering like crazy, letters appearing after I type. I am now putting down the imrpoved performance that I was using it with hardly any tabs loaded.

with the same tabs/windows ff3.6 uses 315meg on startup and usually creeps up to maybe just under 400meg after weeks of uptime.

disgraceful, you would think that they would have got that sorted out by now.

As for the version numbers and updates, I have heard that Mozilla is going to change the updating of Firefox in that it will update and you got no choice about it. At the moment you can choose to update or not, but that is stopping, it will be like Chrome.

Hate that idea, my computer, I will choose if I want stuff updated or not.