<< On Sunday 27 November 2005 02:50 pm, David Elmo wrote: > > From: Michelle Klein-Hass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [G] Browser Choices > > Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2005 09:39:56 -0800 > > > > > > If you have a > > more high-end machine Firefox should be your browser of choice, but just > > make sure you don't leave it sitting open too long. Hopefully 1.5 will > > fix this nasty memory leak problem. > > Do say more about this memory leak business...? It does sound > like something that is consistent with odd things happening on > my WaMCom Mozilla 1.3 that I run under OS 9 after a fair time.
I find if I have Firefox open in Mac OS X for an hour or more and have visited several pages in that session things start bogging down. Sure enough, it seems to eat memory. As far as WaM Com Mozilla...it doesn't just bog down after a while. It can freeze OS 9. Freeze it tight as a drum. The only solution is the reset button. Like I said hopefully FF 1.5 will not have this problem. Unfortunately with WaM Com there is no hope because nobody's developing it anymore. -- Michelle Klein-Hass Box 2273, Van Nuys, CA 91404-2273 Brought to you by Linux, KDE and KMail...try it, you'll like it! >> I have found that when WaMCom crashes it most often happens when I have a lot of tabs open, or when I've visited a lot of sites, so it may well be a memory leak. That said, I've also used it for hours at time without peril. There seems to be an "issue" with Flash .swf files made with newer version of Flash, so I have the Flash plug-in turned off, by dragging it out of the plug-in folder before launching, most of the time. One of the things I wish they had developed before all new work on it had stopped was a good plug-in manager. Also a way to turn Cascading Style Sheets off, when needed, as WaMCom has difficulties with certain sites (such as Ars Technica, & The Huffington Post), where there seems to be a strip of text that is inaccessible to scrolling on the left side. I have to look at the source code to read them!. I suspect this is a CSS thing. All the recent Mozilla-based browsers on OS X that I have used have seemed to be able to avoid it. As for the virtues of IE, I must say that it avoids that too! Also, when modern CSS screws it up, you can turn it off for a while easily in the Preferences, & then re-load the page. I mis tabs, though, with it... ~~ Bill Art page: <http://geocities.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/> -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
