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