Firefox 3.5 Goodness

As an update to a previous post about Firefox Memory Leak where I said that I frequently saw 1.4GB of ram used by Firefox 3.0.
Well I am pleased to announce that I have not seen Firefox memory to anywhere above 512MB!!
Well done Firefox Team!  This makes my machine much more bearable and allows me to [...]

Posted on July 14, 2009 at 10:11 am by Jordan Carter · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Firefox 3.5 Install on Ubuntu

Go get Firefox from the official site
tar -xjf firefox-3.5.tar.bz2
Rename firefox directory to firefox-3.5
mv firefox firefox-3.5
Move firefox-3.5 to /usr/lib
sudo mv firefox-3.5 /usr/lib
Now create a shortcut on your panel. The easiest way to make a new launcher, with the Firefox logo, is to copy the old one (or edit it) and change the path to
/usr/lib/firefox-3.5/firefox
All together [...]

Posted on July 2, 2009 at 11:33 am by Jordan Carter · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Firefox Memory Leak

I have 6gb of ram on my Ubuntu machine.  I thought that I would not need anything more than 4gb but pushed it to 6gb cause I could..  Well I saw Firefox push up to 1.3GB.
I realise that linux machines will cache until it runs out of Ram but this wasn’t cache.  This was “in [...]

Posted on May 26, 2009 at 8:22 pm by Jordan Carter · Permalink · 3 Comments
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