On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Amit Kulkarni <amitk...@gmail.com> wrote: >> B Without having an endless crab session about Firefox, I'd like to >> know if Firefox 6 seems any better for you. B Firefox 4+ seems to >> not just leak memory, but hemorrhage it. B In 5 I routinely hit the >> 2G data limit. B 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? B 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. > >
2-4 hrs to build? When it finishes compiling there will be already firefox 8!
