On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 09:16 -0400, B. Alexander wrote: > I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting > unusable. I have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a > 3.0GHz C2D with a (lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or > xulrunner-stub) have memory leaks, and after a couple of days, it eats > up a significant amount (10-30%) of memory. The work box has 3GB and > the home box has 4GB. It also eats up a significant amount of CPU. > > This morning, after idling all weekend, iceweasel on my work system > was chewing up between 70 and 100% of my cpus, and scrolling pages > were hesitating for several seconds. Is this Lenny, Squeeze or Sid you are talking about? > > So what do others use? > --b I use swiftfox, it's the latest firefox code recompiled to be more CPU specific in terms of compile time optimization. I find it to be pretty stable, also note that swiftfox is more up-to-date than the Iceweasel package. It certainly seems snappier than the vanilla firefox from firefox.com. Website: http://getswiftfox.com
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