Firefox: Memory Hog
I'm really annoyed with the Mozilla developers for making Firefox such a memory hog. When I ran the proper Mac 1.5 beta, the RAM usage was above 70-80 megs at one point (and on a MacMini, that brings my system to a halt).
Now I'm running the G4 optimized build, which is much better, but Firefox still takes up 40 megs and 0.4%-0.5% of CPU while Safari uses about 25 megs and about 0% of CPU.
I want to use Safari, due to the greater efficiency, but the lack of these features annoys me:
1) Type-ahead find (I hate have to do %-F)
2) Lack of url bar keywords (ex gg {search term} for google)
3) Intuitive keyboard shortcuts (SHIFT-%-arrow keys is just dumb)
Safari has one cool feature that Firefox doesn't, though:
Spell checking for text areas.
So it's down to a choice of features vs. low footprint. Right now, despite my MacMini, I've chosen the former.
Now I'm running the G4 optimized build, which is much better, but Firefox still takes up 40 megs and 0.4%-0.5% of CPU while Safari uses about 25 megs and about 0% of CPU.
I want to use Safari, due to the greater efficiency, but the lack of these features annoys me:
1) Type-ahead find (I hate have to do %-F)
2) Lack of url bar keywords (ex gg {search term} for google)
3) Intuitive keyboard shortcuts (SHIFT-%-arrow keys is just dumb)
Safari has one cool feature that Firefox doesn't, though:
Spell checking for text areas.
So it's down to a choice of features vs. low footprint. Right now, despite my MacMini, I've chosen the former.
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I'm not saying that 70-80MB is expected of a Beta and that it will magically disappear on the final 1.5 shipping product, but it's a Beta for a reason.