I don’t think its THAT bad. I’m the first to concede FF has significant memory leak issues, but it does things like tabbed browsing better than the others and has better computability with many sites than browsers like Opera. I have bigger stability issues with OpenOffice.
I thought they had the memory leak issue addressed in one of the early 2.0 releases, but it has showed its ugly head again.
As of right now, I’m at 248M and some change, but my system is humming along fine at 512M RAM. I’ll put 2 gig in my next build and won’t worry about it.
Lucky. Im stuck at 1.5gb of ram and run SQL server studio, Outlook and VS2005. Thats like trying to run a car on an empty tank... Firefox really needs to fix that issue because i need that memory for my really memory/processor intensive apps. A web browser shouldnt be one.
I’ve been slowly upgrading my systems to AM2 and 2 Gig ...now have an abundance of memory resources....faster is good.,,,,,love my AMD64 3000+ running several dozen tabs in several windows with Beryl and Sabayon 3.3 ( Gentoo based Linux system)