Firefox 1.5 beta out

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2005-09-09 03:06pm

nickolay1 wrote:
Jawawithagun wrote:And is it still the old memory hog?
You bet it is. My current instance is using 180MB.

35 megs with six tabs open and a crapload of extensions running.

nickolay1 · Post by **nickolay1** » 2005-09-09 03:18pm

I have approximately twenty tabs and one extension. Also, the current VM size is 585MB.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2005-09-09 03:21pm

nickolay1 wrote:I have approximately twenty tabs and one extension. Also, the current VM size is 585MB.

I tried 20 tabs, 74 MB.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-09-09 03:43pm

Bounty wrote:
1.5 is out already? Well, damn. It feels like I just upgraded to 1.4 only a few weeks ago.
You upgraded to 1.0.4. 1.0.6 is the current version. They're going to skip a few numbers for the next release.

Meh, close enough.

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2005-09-09 05:00pm

the .303 bookworm wrote:Am I the only one with a grey bar taking up a third of his lower screen?

One of my friends here has that exact same problem with his 1.0.6 FF. Maybe it's a crappy extension doing that.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2005-09-09 05:13pm

86 megs w/ 10 tabs in window #1, 4 in #2, and 1 in #3, filled w/ actual content, not blank, no extensions (if you're running Linux, see resident memory column in top).

Kazuaki Shimazaki · Post by **Kazuaki Shimazaki** » 2005-09-09 10:11pm

What the fuck are you guys doing with so many tabs open anyway? Deliberately trying to crash your machines?

Xon · Post by **Xon** » 2005-09-09 10:34pm

Bounty wrote:
nickolay1 wrote:I have approximately twenty tabs and one extension. Also, the current VM size is 585MB.
I tried 20 tabs, 74 MB.

"VM size" is more important that "Mem Usage" under windows

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2005-09-09 10:41pm

Does 1.5 show an increase in speed in loading pages that aren't stored in the cache?

Dillon · Post by **Dillon** » 2005-09-09 11:31pm

Well pages certainly load faster. AFAIK, there's no mouse gestures mod for this version yet which is a bit annoying, but I'm sure one will be released soon.

Datana · Post by **Datana** » 2005-09-10 12:41am

You can hack Mouse Gestures to work for you again, but it's kind of annoying. Open up C:\Documents and Settings\<Username>\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\default.<xyz>\extensions.rdf in Notepad. Locate every instance of "maxVersion="1.0+"" and change it to read "maxVersion="1.5+"." Most extensions will start working again, but some cause problems (Biobar, TabX, FLST and BugMeNot are the ones that had issues for me). No themes work properly for the beta except for the default one; if you force them into working via this trick, you'll suffer from missing scrollbars and an unusable config menu.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2005-09-11 02:11am

Gr... so unstable- 1.5 alpha was surprisingly *more* stable... I'm switching to 1.6 alpha (profile is b0rk3d, so can't downgrade, otherwise get grey bars).