"Jeffrey W. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sat, 2001-12-08 at 12:37, Christoph Simon wrote: > > On Sat, 8 Dec 2001 13:55:12 -0600 > > Dimitri Maziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > <SIGH/> All browsers suck. Konqueror on my woody box is incapable > > > of displaying GIF89a's, Netscape 6.x has problems displaying some > > > CSS + tables pages (as in "some parts of the page are simply not > > > there"). Anything derived from mozilla is a horrible memory hog > > > (when used with another memory hog -- Forte -- they can easily > > > bring your box down to its knees), and Netscape 4.x leaves behind > > > runaway processes that have to be tracked down and killed every > > > week or so -- otherwise the box becomes unusable... > > > Is there IE for Linux? > > Mozilla has been a memory hog. But, there was a really great bugfix > lately. The problem was that, when opening and closing new windows, > Mozilla was leaking basically the entire contents of that window. Those > of us who browse using a lot of windows were getting killed by this > bug. Now that it is fixed, Mozilla's memory consumption stabilizes > after startup. >
The recent tab-browsing feature also helps a lot in this respect. I'd been forcing myself to have no more than 2 windows open until tabs appeared in the nightlies and now I regularly have up to 5 tabs open, usually without a significant increase in memory usage (although there still appear to be some memory leaks that'll show over a long period of time).
