whats the deal with fire fox

[Chris Neary]

On 11/07/06, Ouattara Aziz <wattazoum at gmail.com> wrote:
> More precisely, when you open a tab, you create an instance of
> 'something' which will use your RAM. Firefox tries to optimize that
> something so that it'll take few memory. But the memory it'll take also
> depends on the page you are looking at.

Also keep in mind that if you're viewing a page with embedded flash
video (say YouTube or Google Video, or any Flash animation or game),
system-monitor will report CPU usage at 100% and on slow machines,
Firefox will run very slowly indeed. (By slow I mean p4 with less than
256MB RAM. I have the same problem on a machine of this spec. However
it runs blindingly fast on my AMD stupidlyfastGHz with 1.5 GB RAM!)

Chris