On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 1:20 AM, Amit Kulkarni <amitk...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>   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.

Fwiw, i have firefox running since mid-august, and it takes 250mb of
memory. Never hit the 2G limit, be it 4, 5, 6 on amd64 or i386.

>> FF 3.6.xx seemed much better to me.

Then just use www/firefox36.

>> 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.

Point releases are security updates...

> try FF7 b4 from his git repo
> http://rhaalovely.net/cgit/mozilla-firefox/commit/?h=beta

Or packages : http://dawn.rhaalovely.net/stuff/amd64/
http://dawn.rhaalovely.net/stuff/i386/

Landry

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