Surprise! The memory issues are back in Firefox
Numerous users of the latest version of the Firefox web browser (3.0.4 released yesterday) are reporting memory issues causing the browser to freeze up or crash. Firefox 2 was plagued with memory management issues, but users had thought Mozilla had put these behind them with Firefox 3.
In my own case, Firefox 3.0.4 has become nearly unusable. The first couple of Firefox 3 releases were fine, and after years of complaining about the product, I couldn’t have been happier. Firefox 3.0.3 seemed a little more unstable, and although there were no clear memory leaks, I went from Firefox never crashing, to Firefox crashing maybe a couple of times a week. Now with Firefox 3.0.4, its a multi-day occurrence. The issue in the new release would appear to be memory related, with memory on my machine spiking over 100% for Firefox with only a handful of tabs open.
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