I still have a lot of memory leak in Firefox12 (I restart it every 10-15 days, when it's up to 1.5GB of RAM).
It leaks more when there's a flash or animated menu (javascript menus constantly updating etc.).
Firefox.exe or the plugin-container.exe?
Check about:memory in the address bar and see if you can pinpoint what's causing it. Firefox is unfortunately to the point now that IE was famous for; 3rd-party software installing addons and making modifications without asking or even alerting you. I can't tell you the number of people who look at the addons (and about
lugins) list and are surprised at what managed to sneak something into firefox without asking.
If they are now freeing the unused tabs it would be great
Yeah I'll have to do some reading or checking to see if the stuff is being paged. I suppose it might have taken so long because the process for determining whether a tab is critical to leave running or not isn't that simple.
They got rid of -moz-border-radius... (and maybe other -moz- stuff) thus breaking several firefox optimized websites...
I know we should use the standard border-radius... but what about people still using old firefox versions?
Considering that updates also fix security concerns, people shouldn't be using old versions anyways. 13 appears to work just fine on XP (SP3) for now still, too.
The smooth scrolling is great, but I'll need to mess with it it's too much sensitive.
I found it easy to adapt to because I've been using tablets (iOS and Android) for a while and they pretty much demand smooth scrolling capabilities, but you can always turn it off if you don't like it (Options - Advanced - General).
I don't like the smooth scrolling effect.
We can mess with it instead of simply disabling it?
Head into about:config and search for "smooth", you'll find the values there. There will likely be some sort of plugin developed to add a GUI for these tweaks seen enough.
I've downloaded it once when it was in 1.0 or 1.5 and quitted it
You know the English used to try to force taxation on the US when the US was just a colony of theirs. That means they still suck, right?
Well, I kept a javascript heavy page opened, and the browser is now lagging, the ram is maxed out.
The page has no animation, no reloading feature, just loaded once in a tab, and I used a second tab until now.
I can say that Firefox 13 didn't fix the memory leak.
The computer at my work is not a good one, but I expect that at least it doesn't leak continually once loaded.
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode
And screenshot the about:memory page for me in that mode when the issue shows up, please? Pinpointing the leak to submit to mozilla will likely be helpful.
EDIT: And yes this may be a little redundant as i know you're a plugin developer, but mozilla's not that public with the "about" pages so many people don't know about the memory one (or about:support, which I just realized you might want to know about).
Ok, firstly, Firefox keeps going down the shit shoot every time they release a new update/version. Secondly, its slow, I have monster gaming rig and it still runs like crap, the last time I remember fox every running smoothly was way back with 2.5 or was it 3.0? either way there's a reason why Chrome has become the most used browser in the world.
Yes, for mainly the same reason Firefox was previously the Chrome of it's generation; companies had not yet figured out how to fuck with it without your permission.
Two key points though.
1 - Mozilla's had enough and has added some warnings when outside programs modify firefox, but these only cover some cases and only appear at the time of the incident, so for example if something you installed fucked with firefox's config values previously, the warning won't show up since the change has already been done. This is partially why a complete uninstall and reinstall (for people having issues) is suggested.
2 - Chrome was designed with not letting other programs fuck with it from the start (Google don't tolerate that shit), which is likely why it's stayed cleaner longer.
