Comments on: Whats New: Firefox 11 Aurora

By: Michael Aulia @CravingTech.com

Michael Aulia @CravingTech.com — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 10:14:48 +0000

In reply to Tuan Do. Hm..fair enough. Wish there's a way to find out which extension is using X amount of memory at the moment... I don't have many extensions installed

By: James

James — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:15:50 +0000

I’m hesitant to update to the latest Firefox version. It looks great, but every time they make an update with big changes, browser hogs more resources and more sites sites seem to crash more often. Before the updates, these sites almost never crashed.

Have you seen any of these issues in the recent updates?

By: Michael Aulia @CravingTech.com

Michael Aulia @CravingTech.com — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:15:25 +0000

Hm..wondering whether it still has the memory leak problem (using 1 GB even when all tabs are already closed). Exists since previous versions (or maybe because of the extensions?)

By: Tuan Do

Tuan Do — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:40:10 +0000

In reply to James. Hi James, I've never had a crash with Firefox even after updating to latest version. This is still the most stable web browser in my opinion.

By: Tuan Do

Tuan Do — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:38:03 +0000

In reply to Michael Aulia @CravingTech.com. Yep, the memory leak is commonly due to third-party addons, not from Firefox's core. I also heard that Firefox has reduced memory consumption in this version and they are trying to tackle the memory leaks from addons. I think that add-on developers should be more responsible and spend more time to identify and resolve memory leaks themselves.

By: Rohan Tulsiani

Rohan Tulsiani — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:25:15 +0000

From what I can tell the browser seems to be fairly stable and I heard that certain advances have been made to fix the memory leak problem, however I would urge you to do some extra research just in case.

Hope it works well for you too.