> Without having an endless crab session about Firefox, I'd like to > know if Firefox 6 seems any better for you. Firefox 4+ seems to > not just leak memory, but hemorrhage it. In 5 I routinely hit the > 2G data limit. FF6 is better in this regard it seems, but freezes > the system in fits of reallocing memory, freezing OpenBSD for > seconds at a time. > > FF 3.6.xx seemed much better to me. > > Are others seeing FF6 as not much better? I see Landry just > committed 6.0.2 so I'm going to try that, but I don't have a lot of > hope.
try FF7 b4 from his git repo http://rhaalovely.net/cgit/mozilla-firefox/commit/?h=beta FF7 is the first FF release which pays serious attention to those memory bugs, so it might help you. takes about 2-4 hrs to compile on amd64.
