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to: Frank Haber
from: John Beamish
date: 2006-08-07 10:25:58
subject: Re: Is Firefox Supposed To Keep A Process Running?

From: "John Beamish" 

You forgot:

5.  Switch to Opera :-D

On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 09:59:11 -0400, Frank Haber  wrote:

> 1. I could say, "Don't obsess," but you know how much good
that would do.
>
> 2. There have been memory leaks galore in FF.  You could let the sliver
> run and see whether its footprint grows.
>
> 3. It may just be a "fast launch" component.  Notice how FF is MUCH
> slower to start the first time than IE?  That's because IE cheats, and
> loads stuff at boot.  After the first use, I think FF cheats, too.  You
> may want that little slice of EXE/DLL to stay there.
>
> 4. Don't close your browser so much. (I do that, too.  I still use
> Windows as a task switcher some of the time; 1-2G of RAM haven't stopped
> me.  It'll take a bigger wooden mallet than that, I guess, to completely
> crush the habit.)

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