[G4] Re: DVR problem

[Brett George]

Yes, that's what I do. I also do periodic maintenance on the entire OS 
(10.4.8). But that's not a fix. It's 'making do' and it shouldn't be 
that way. This has been a KNOWN problem with Safari and firefox ever 
since they came out. It's been more than long enough for a fix to have 
been found IF the programmers cared to. I think that they think it's a 
minor problem and would rather devote their time to making cool stuff 
instead of some boring code fix!
Kind of harsh I know, but for crying out loud! How many years does it 
take to fix some code? It's not like this hasn't happened before. Other 
software have experienced this 'memory leak' problem and fixed it. Why 
can't these coders do it?

Okay. I'm climbing down off my soapbox and stopping my rant. You can 
send the boys with the white jackets away now!

brett


keith_w wrote:
> Brett George wrote:
>> I like Safari as well but have been using firefox for several months 
>> now and really like it. The one problem I have with both browsers is 
>> that they seem to both have memory leaks. After a few hours of being 
>> open and browsing, Firefox will end up using ALL available memory. I 
>> just checked it and it's using 585MB of real memory and 1.05GB of 
>> virtual memory!
>> I've been trying to find out why this happens and if there is a fix 
>> for some time now but nobody seems to want to respond!
>> Other than that rather big problem, I love Firefox!
>>
>> brett
>
> Morning, Brett...
>
> It depends on how you work, of course, but if possible you might 
> schedule a save session every hour or so, to shut Safari down, let it 
> close up open windows, etc. and after 30 seconds or so, open it again, 
> see it it's down to a manageable size again.
>
> I'm not a memory expert, especially on Safari, but just generally, 
> I've found some programs are not efficient as tney could be, and 
> require periodic turning off and back on again.
>
> Good luck,
>
> keith whaley
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