Speaking of Firefox...

[kf0rt]

I'm about tired of it (but it's soooo good!).

I'm pretty convinced Firefox has a caching issue. The longer you run it, the more memory it eats and the slower it gets. I've seen times where it slows to a crawl and Task Manager shows it using upwards of 2 Gig of RAM. Shut it down and restart it, everything's fine. Even then, it can take a minute or two to shut down. Doesn't FEEL like a memory leak.

This gets worse if you're playing on photo sites where it's caching a lot of images. On a mostly text site (like HamIsland forums), you can go a long time. I see this on both Win7 and XP.

Anyone know of a secret cure, or is it time to give IE 8 a shot? Mostly, what I love about Firefox is the bookmarks toolbar and the bookmarks in the Google toolbar, which travel with your Google account. Chrome doesn't support the Google toolbar? WTF?

[KG4CGC]

Chrome doesn't support the Google toolbar?

Google Toolbar is considered a virus by most bleeding edge surfers.

[kf0rt]

Google Toolbar is considered a virus by most bleeding edge surfers.

Really? Must admit, the only part of it I use is the traveling bookmarks. I keep the page rank stuff turned off, etc., but don't consider myhuck to be a surfer extraordinaire.

[WØTKX]

Especially if you leave a bunch of tabs open... just sitting for a few hours, and it's hogged all the RAM.

It's why I use Chrome a lot, but looking around, we are not the only ones. Not tried yet, I downloaded this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/53880/

Home website: http://www.browsermemory.com/?page_id=28

[NQ6U]

I use Chrome on my Windows machine and I like it--small, fast, and it uses the WebKit rendering engine which is under constant maintenance by Apple.

[n6hcm]

Really? Must admit, the only part of it I use is the traveling bookmarks. I keep the page rank stuff turned off, etc., but don't consider myhuck to be a surfer extraordinaire.

that's built into chrome--don't need no stinkin' toolbar for that. works x-platform, too (haven't tried it on linux yet, tho).

[WØTKX]

Whatcher Java Version Rob? I found out my Java Update has not been working correctly since the end of May, tho it acted like it was.

Updated mine, and I'm gonna open up 3 window with 10 tabs each, and see if it still screws up.

There is rhetoric about this on the Mozilla forums...

[KC2UGV]

Hm... Doesn't seem to be an issue on Linux. I leave FF open for days at a time, with no leaks.

[WØTKX]

Correct. Windoze Sux, of course. The JRE re-install seems to have done the trick for me.

[kf0rt]

Whatcher Java Version Rob? I found out my Java Update has not been working correctly since the end of May, tho it acted like it was.

Updated mine, and I'm gonna open up 3 window with 10 tabs each, and see if it still screws up.

There is rhetoric about this on the Mozilla forums...

Looks like it was way out of date. I updated it to the latest, but no difference here...