Firefox 3 RC2 is now avaliable to download -

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html

"it includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory, usage and speed" just installed it to test if its fixed the memory hogging problem while on youtube and any other flash video websites, uummm no still the same...


Liam

Firefox 3 RC2 is now avaliable to download -

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html

"it includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory, usage and speed" just installed it to test if its fixed the memory hogging problem while on youtube and any other flash video websites, uummm no still the same...


Liam

Had other issues in RC1 but not had any flash related ones and I cant see many reported that are actually FF related.

You are aware of the security flaw found earlier in the year and now being exploited through flash if you have anything below the latest version?
Youtube had to update some elements to prevent people uploading videos that would sit through the exploit and with the update older flash runs a bit funny until updated also.

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Firefox 3 RC2 is now avaliable to download -

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-rc.html

"it includes new features as well as dramatic improvements to performance, memory, usage and speed" just installed it to test if its fixed the memory hogging problem while on youtube and any other flash video websites, uummm no still the same...


Liam

Had other issues in RC1 but not had any flash related ones and I cant see many reported that are actually FF related.

You are aware of the security flaw found earlier in the year and now being exploited through flash if you have anything below the latest version?
Youtube had to update some elements to prevent people uploading videos that would sit through the exploit and with the update older flash runs a bit funny until updated also.

Yeah iv got the lats version of Flash, the latest is 9.0.0.124 isnt it i think or what ever the numbers are?

Liam

Dont worry I have the same problems as you have Liam, flash and javascript sites gradually eat all my memory and slow Firefox down. Im hoping this new version will fix a lot of these issues though.

I went back to version 2.0.0.14 again on my laptop and an 15 minutes later it says it was downloading a new update for 2.0.0.14?!?!, anyway after the update had finished and i had restarted Firefox it seemed to have fixed the memory issue now and it runs perfectly fine when viewing flash videos! The only thing i noticed changes with the versions is the copyright section - on the old one it said "1998-2006" and on the new one "1998-2008".

Liam

3.0 on Linux rocks the proverbial socks. Proper Malloc ftw.