With MS releasing WinArm into the wilds in may just be that they are creating some rules about where to use ARM (tablets) and where to use x86 (everything else) so it doesn't just confuse and alienate the consumer.
Really once you see one of these, you will never want to see one again.
This is a two mode screen and both modes are mediocre.
1: E-Ink mode: This is what all the hoopla is about, but it is terrible compared to a Kindle, it NEEDs sunlight to be visibly, you aren't going to use this mode indoors, so it is a very part time outdoor sunny mode. Most of the time you will be using:
2: Color LCD mode: Which is worse than the cheapest LCD on the market. Colors are weak and viewing angles are terrible.
This just combines two of the worse displays on the market into one. Figure out what you actually need a display to do and get a one mode display that does an excellent job (Color LCD or E-ink) at that, instead of a display that will at best always be second rate.
While I don't like Ballmer, I fail to see what Bill G would do that is dramatically different.
They really need to start grooming younger blood for some future transition point, not at the squawking of some shareholders.
But really no CEO is going to change MS on dime and change it too what?
Ballmer actually scored a coup recently getting Nokia to switch to WinPhone, which may have saved windows mobile. He is also pushing windows 8 on ARM and will likely finally have a tablet strategy. Obviously late but changing CEOs won't speed it up at this point.
Instead of just a demand for a another body, what is it that Microsoft should be doing that it isn't?
In a brightly lit jungle of the big box store, all panels will have many lights shining on them and here is what happens:
1:Glossy screen is covered in bright reflections, buyer rationalizes that at home, they won't have bright lights so they will be fine.
2: Matte screen in comparison would have no reflections but light diffusion would rob apparent contrast, buyer does not make the same rationalization about lack of multiple bright lights at home. They just see the loss of apparent contrast.
All screens sucks in this environment, they just suck in different ways that to an improper conclusion that Glossy screens will be better in more controlled lighting environment, but Matte won't.
Then at home or other properly controlled lighting environment here is what actually happens.
1: Glossy screen: No matter what, reflections will be near impossible to control, while brighter in store they never go away.
2: Matte screen: without showroom lighting, they don't suffer the light diffusion issues robbing contrast and they are blissfully free of reflections.
Conclusion from the showroom is that Glossy would be better without showroom light, but it is actually Matte screens that really improve more in proper lighting.
There is a reason that ALL professional LCD displays are Matte. It is the best option in a properly controlled lighting environment, having both good contrast and freedom from reflections, it is just that on the showroom floor. Shiny has more zing and creates faulty assumptions.
It really does seem that Win8 will be released in ARM/x86 form with little direction or segmentation between them.
HW players will then decide what to build and put it in the market, so we will simultaneously have:
Win8Arm and Win8x86 tablets hitting the shelves.
That might seem like an interesting battle for survival in the marketplace, but it doesn't seem like a sane way to plan products...
If Microsoft decided to make a clean break and create a new tablet version of Win8 only on ARM, that would make a lot more sense, than simply throwing things out there and watching what happens.
How many shrink wrap software packages do you have that were written with.NET managed software?
I would bet ZERO..NET is popular for custom business software and open source/freeware windows apps.
But nearly all commercial Windows software packages for consumers are native x86 code..NET doesn't really enter into the picture for backward compatibility..NET is one way to handle dual architectures going forward, but it doesn't do anything for legacy Native apps.
I agree, mobile has been playing second or more like third fiddle for some time. The mobile chips get the fab generation once the desktop/laptop chips are just about done with it.
If Intel was serious about Mobile they would be fabbing closer to the same generation as their desktop chips. But now that is exactly what the new roadmaps are showing.
I don't really think Intel will have much problem catching up on power usage and dominating on pure performance.
But the one stumbling block will be installed base in mobile where ARM is now the standard. I don't really see Apple moving it's mobile products back to x86. The OS isn't an issue, but all the native applications are.
Android is a mix of Java and Native code, so it would be a little messy there as well.
Yes, I have the numbers flipped, but the point remains otherwise.
Obviously with low numbers they start over numbering for bills with each new parliament. So there is no relation between numbers of bills between different parliaments.
I just have my fingers crossed (and already voted) for another minority government, to hopefully extend the time before file sharing lawsuits come to Canada.
Before you ask how one votes for a minority, you just have to look at polls and vote strategically. In this election that means voting for your local Candidate that has the best chance of toppling the Conservative candidate.
Unfortunately with the surging NDP splitting the left wing vote even more that likely places the Conservatives even closer to a majority...
You can bet we will quickly get a new one from the new government next week.
If it is a Majority Government, I expect we go whole hog US style copyright, so the lawsuits will start destroying the lives of Canadians for file sharing...
If it is a Minority Government, the bill will need to have significant concessions for Canadian citizens to get passed by the Opposition parties.
I really don't get the reactionary attitude to improving 24fps. 24 strobe and hideous panning should have been behind us decades ago.
People whining about soap opera effect are out to lunch. Soap operas look like crap because of poor video equipment with small sensors creating deep DOF, putting everything in focus, hideous sets, poor lighting and generally very low shooting budgets.
Citizen Kane shot at 48fps would still be a cinematic masterpiece and a Soap shot at 24 fps would still look like crap.
They are using 15% as their baseline automotive number to inflate their ridiculous 3.5x efficiency claim. That should set off alarm bells right there. This is clearly an attempt to exaggerate the impact across the board here.
I suspect the 60% efficiency number is purely theoretical and likely compounded by errors or even fabrications given the snake oil like claim.
I don't see anything credible going on here.
This appears to be some kind of micro-turbine, they best of which rarely top 30% efficiency.
I certainly wouldn't invest a dollar in this, and IMO the chance of this ever getting beyond prototype is near zero.
As noted the video is from 2009, surely there should be a running prototype by now?
Ok, thanks for your insight into memory issues. It looks like some mix of cache holding and extension leaks that I don't care to troubleshoot anymore.
As I said, I am addicted to a number of my extensions which have no equivalent in other browsers. For windows I think, as a stopgap, Mozilla should have a force cache "clear now" button like they do for disk, that might save some grief they are getting. Or even an upper limit on memory used.
Geez, I just noticed I can't click your "manifesto" or other links people have embedded. Must be another extension interaction.:)
I actually did do a test with all extensions disabled. I mass opened and closed about 30 tabs. Then let it sit. It was at 380MB after closing tabs. I went to bed, in the morning it was at 400MB...
How do tell what is cache and what is leak. Again what is the point of never releasing cache...
If cache is per/tab now, why doesn't it time out and release after the tab is closed?
I am sticking with FF because I don't run for more than a couple of hours at a time, and I some of the extensions I have become hooked on. Like speed dial that lets you zoom,crop to make mini readable web pages. I love that...
But it does look like FF is bleeding heavy user that see the memory usage as problematic.
So it now seem to have unbounded memory cache use that it never frees.
Doesn't that seem like a problem to you?
Whatever the cause, this should be priority #1.
I say this not because I am trolling but because Firefox is my favorite browser and every day on forums I go to people are ditching it because memory use is climbing over 1GB and staying there with just a single tab open. When I actually paid attention, I discovered they were right and it was happening to me as well, so there was nothing I could say about it.
They don't care where the blame lies. Whether it is just perception, or extension leaks doesn't matter, Mozilla has to do something to keep that number in check or they will bleed users.
Another thing Apple does is the "percieved" dedication to product lines.
It is kind of funny how we engineers often use the concept KISS, but most companies don't adhere to this when it comes to their product lineup.
Yes I definitely see this as well. I consider myself pretty far onto the nerd scale and I spend too much time looking at spec sheets, hand picking every component when I build my PCs, but when I look at Smartphones/tablets. I see Apples dedication to what they see as the winning niche, and confused cover every conceivable option from the competition.
I am not really into Smartphones, but I see Apples iPhone vs Samsungs Android phones. Samsung seems to have 20+ variations with slight differences and even seems to have carrier specific naming. That is massive division of effort, marketing, etc...
Apple outsells their entire lineup easily with one phone. These leads to concentration of R&D,buying power, marketing etc...
It definitely is another factor in Apples success.
There is no secret weapon. But a great many obvious ones.
First Mover advantage: You can argue tablet existed before, but until iPad, they didn't for the average consumer. Apple's iPad will be seen as the spark that started a new product niche, they will have mindshare advantage, competitors are left playing catch up and will be largely perceived as iPad knockoffs, that you get because you were too cheap, or unsavvy to get an iPad.
Mature OS vs Beta OS: You can argue about better notifications in Android or some other pet feature, but the reality is that Honeycomb is beta quality. It is unstable, apps are crashing all over the place. You certainly aren't going to win converts with this.
Apple consistently builds top quality HW: Again you quibble about some minor spec sheet improvement some competitor has, but Apple is pretty much a safe bet of deliver top quality HW. If you go with the competition, you will have to dissect spec sheets/reviews to make sure you aren't getting a crappy screen or low battery life, etc...
Ecosystem: 65000 tablet specific applications vs 100...
Unique Killer Apps: Apple is creating a suite of excellent apps that off a cut above anything available for Android Tablets. Garage Band, iMovie, Pages, Number etc..
Marketing: Apple is fairly good at marketing and they are clearly outspending all the competition on tablet marketing..
Mom Factor Think about which one you would get for your Mom? I tried to get my Senior Mom using a PC and it was hopeless, but I think an iPad could work for her and I do think it will be easier with an iPad than an Android tablet.
Against this, the main thing Android tablets seem to have going for them is: Nerd rage about walled gardens and Nerd spec sheet worship. That doesn't seem very relevant this time out. I honestly wouldn't have a clue how to compete against iPad and I doubt any of the competition does either, they are just trying to build comparable HW and hoping.
After some earlier waffling, I am planning to get an iPad as my first Apple product ever.
Your product will FAIL if it's priced higher than the "premium" product that is out there. Yes the new Motorola tablet is better than an Ipad, but it is not PERCIEVED as being a luxury item like the iPad has become.
Since we are talking about perception. Did you consider that the Xoom isn't better and that you are just perceiving it as such?
Why is it that you consider the Motorola Tablet as better? HW is comparable. But the software is beta.
I read several reviews of the Xoom. All had the software crashing all over the place. It was clearly rushed out the door in early beta state to have "something" to compete with, but it really doesn't seem competitive at this point.
Better obviously has some subjectives involved. But my definition of the better product, isn't likely to be the one with unstable software that crashes regularly.
If you _really_ want to find a memory leak, open firefox, do your stuff, open the task manager, leave it open, stop browing and wait. You'll see memory go slowly down.
I am interested in getting to the bottom of this, so I tried your suggestion.
I closed all tabs except just one on this thread and went away for over an hour, with no activity and just one tab open.
On the upside memory usage did not increase.
But unfortunately it did not decrease either, so this appears to be a leak.
Here is what it looked like after an hour idle with ONLY ONE tab open.
Others are reporting the same thing with just (what I consider) the essentials of Addblock, noscript. Also if it is an extension, all the caching makes it very hard to tell which one[s].
If the cache is per/tab Firefox needs to flush it shortly after it is closed, if the leak is in extensions, Firefox needs more sandboxing and cleanup, IDentification etc.
Fixing this needs a much higher priority than fluff.
Back during the 2.x era there was a substantial memory leak which caused serious trouble under normal circumstances. But that has long since been fixed, anybody saying that at this point is probably either a troll or blaming it on an extension with a memory leak.
I am not trolling. I love Firefox. It is by far my preferred browser.
If I have to ditch my Extensions, then Firefox wouldn't be my preferred any more. Extensions make the browser IMO.
I kept Firefox open since my first post. It is now consuming a whopping 1.4 GB with three tabs open...
If it is extensions, Firefox has to sandbox, isolate, control them.
That should be a much higher priority than adding a bunch of useless fluff.
I use many, 18 to be exact. But it is the extensions that make Firefox great. If I have to stop using extensions, then I would definitely give up on Firefox.
Trying to diagnose which ones are causing issues is also problematic as Firefox still seemed to grow memory for quite a while when I disabled all of them. It fluctuates even when it is sitting idle.
In use Extensions: Adblock + BBcodeExtra BetterPrivacy Download Statusbar Download Helper FireGesturs FlagFox Flashblock FxIF Lazarurs: Form Recovery Leechblock Newsfox NoScript SearchPreview Simple Timer + clocks Speed Dial Status-4-Evar Text2Link
Slashdot Mirror
With MS releasing WinArm into the wilds in may just be that they are creating some rules about where to use ARM (tablets) and where to use x86 (everything else) so it doesn't just confuse and alienate the consumer.
Really once you see one of these, you will never want to see one again.
This is a two mode screen and both modes are mediocre.
1: E-Ink mode: This is what all the hoopla is about, but it is terrible compared to a Kindle, it NEEDs sunlight to be visibly, you aren't going to use this mode indoors, so it is a very part time outdoor sunny mode. Most of the time you will be using:
2: Color LCD mode: Which is worse than the cheapest LCD on the market. Colors are weak and viewing angles are terrible.
This just combines two of the worse displays on the market into one. Figure out what you actually need a display to do and get a one mode display that does an excellent job (Color LCD or E-ink) at that, instead of a display that will at best always be second rate.
How is the lagging Symbian business, which has been rotting for years, remotely related to Microsoft?
When you tell the world you are jumping ship, you can expect many potential customers will as well. Similar to the Osbourne effect.
While I don't like Ballmer, I fail to see what Bill G would do that is dramatically different.
They really need to start grooming younger blood for some future transition point, not at the squawking of some shareholders.
But really no CEO is going to change MS on dime and change it too what?
Ballmer actually scored a coup recently getting Nokia to switch to WinPhone, which may have saved windows mobile. He is also pushing windows 8 on ARM and will likely finally have a tablet strategy. Obviously late but changing CEOs won't speed it up at this point.
Instead of just a demand for a another body, what is it that Microsoft should be doing that it isn't?
In a brightly lit jungle of the big box store, all panels will have many lights shining on them and here is what happens:
1:Glossy screen is covered in bright reflections, buyer rationalizes that at home, they won't have bright lights so they will be fine.
2: Matte screen in comparison would have no reflections but light diffusion would rob apparent contrast, buyer does not make the same rationalization about lack of multiple bright lights at home. They just see the loss of apparent contrast.
All screens sucks in this environment, they just suck in different ways that to an improper conclusion that Glossy screens will be better in more controlled lighting environment, but Matte won't.
Then at home or other properly controlled lighting environment here is what actually happens.
1: Glossy screen: No matter what, reflections will be near impossible to control, while brighter in store they never go away.
2: Matte screen: without showroom lighting, they don't suffer the light diffusion issues robbing contrast and they are blissfully free of reflections.
Conclusion from the showroom is that Glossy would be better without showroom light, but it is actually Matte screens that really improve more in proper lighting.
There is a reason that ALL professional LCD displays are Matte. It is the best option in a properly controlled lighting environment, having both good contrast and freedom from reflections, it is just that on the showroom floor. Shiny has more zing and creates faulty assumptions.
It really does seem that Win8 will be released in ARM/x86 form with little direction or segmentation between them.
HW players will then decide what to build and put it in the market, so we will simultaneously have:
Win8Arm and Win8x86 tablets hitting the shelves.
That might seem like an interesting battle for survival in the marketplace, but it doesn't seem like a sane way to plan products...
If Microsoft decided to make a clean break and create a new tablet version of Win8 only on ARM, that would make a lot more sense, than simply throwing things out there and watching what happens.
How many shrink wrap software packages do you have that were written with .NET managed software?
I would bet ZERO. .NET is popular for custom business software and open source/freeware windows apps.
But nearly all commercial Windows software packages for consumers are native x86 code. .NET doesn't really enter into the picture for backward compatibility. .NET is one way to handle dual architectures going forward, but it doesn't do anything for legacy Native apps.
I agree, mobile has been playing second or more like third fiddle for some time. The mobile chips get the fab generation once the desktop/laptop chips are just about done with it.
If Intel was serious about Mobile they would be fabbing closer to the same generation as their desktop chips. But now that is exactly what the new roadmaps are showing.
I don't really think Intel will have much problem catching up on power usage and dominating on pure performance.
But the one stumbling block will be installed base in mobile where ARM is now the standard. I don't really see Apple moving it's mobile products back to x86. The OS isn't an issue, but all the native applications are.
Android is a mix of Java and Native code, so it would be a little messy there as well.
Yes, I have the numbers flipped, but the point remains otherwise.
Obviously with low numbers they start over numbering for bills with each new parliament. So there is no relation between numbers of bills between different parliaments.
I just have my fingers crossed (and already voted) for another minority government, to hopefully extend the time before file sharing lawsuits come to Canada.
Before you ask how one votes for a minority, you just have to look at polls and vote strategically. In this election that means voting for your local Candidate that has the best chance of toppling the Conservative candidate.
Unfortunately with the surging NDP splitting the left wing vote even more that likely places the Conservatives even closer to a majority...
One of the many strategic voting pages can give you some idea of your riding status:
http://www.projectdemocracy.ca/canada-riding-lookup/province
C-32 was still introduced in 2008:
C-61 was another attempt in 2010:
Both of these died with the Minority government.
You can bet we will quickly get a new one from the new government next week.
If it is a Majority Government, I expect we go whole hog US style copyright, so the lawsuits will start destroying the lives of Canadians for file sharing...
If it is a Minority Government, the bill will need to have significant concessions for Canadian citizens to get passed by the Opposition parties.
Fingers crossed for a Minority.
At least they listened for once.
The only reason it couldn't be passed was we have always had minority governments when they tried to introduce it multiple times.
Monday could bring a Majority Conservative government and whatever DMCA industry lobbyist ask for in short order. :(
The only Chrome build on my system is Iron:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/SRWare_Iron
Like Chrome but without the call home/tracking info.
A switch to higher frame rate is long overdo.
I really don't get the reactionary attitude to improving 24fps. 24 strobe and hideous panning should have been behind us decades ago.
People whining about soap opera effect are out to lunch. Soap operas look like crap because of poor video equipment with small sensors creating deep DOF, putting everything in focus, hideous sets, poor lighting and generally very low shooting budgets.
Citizen Kane shot at 48fps would still be a cinematic masterpiece and a Soap shot at 24 fps would still look like crap.
They are using 15% as their baseline automotive number to inflate their ridiculous 3.5x efficiency claim. That should set off alarm bells right there. This is clearly an attempt to exaggerate the impact across the board here.
I suspect the 60% efficiency number is purely theoretical and likely compounded by errors or even fabrications given the snake oil like claim.
I don't see anything credible going on here.
This appears to be some kind of micro-turbine, they best of which rarely top 30% efficiency.
I certainly wouldn't invest a dollar in this, and IMO the chance of this ever getting beyond prototype is near zero.
As noted the video is from 2009, surely there should be a running prototype by now?
WTH?
I started a new empty profile and I still have this problem... I can't click any embedded links...
Ok, thanks for your insight into memory issues. It looks like some mix of cache holding and extension leaks that I don't care to troubleshoot anymore.
As I said, I am addicted to a number of my extensions which have no equivalent in other browsers. For windows I think, as a stopgap, Mozilla should have a force cache "clear now" button like they do for disk, that might save some grief they are getting. Or even an upper limit on memory used.
Geez, I just noticed I can't click your "manifesto" or other links people have embedded. Must be another extension interaction. :)
I actually did do a test with all extensions disabled. I mass opened and closed about 30 tabs. Then let it sit. It was at 380MB after closing tabs. I went to bed, in the morning it was at 400MB...
How do tell what is cache and what is leak. Again what is the point of never releasing cache...
If cache is per/tab now, why doesn't it time out and release after the tab is closed?
I am sticking with FF because I don't run for more than a couple of hours at a time, and I some of the extensions I have become hooked on. Like speed dial that lets you zoom,crop to make mini readable web pages. I love that...
But it does look like FF is bleeding heavy user that see the memory usage as problematic.
So it now seem to have unbounded memory cache use that it never frees.
Doesn't that seem like a problem to you?
Whatever the cause, this should be priority #1.
I say this not because I am trolling but because Firefox is my favorite browser and every day on forums I go to people are ditching it because memory use is climbing over 1GB and staying there with just a single tab open. When I actually paid attention, I discovered they were right and it was happening to me as well, so there was nothing I could say about it.
They don't care where the blame lies. Whether it is just perception, or extension leaks doesn't matter, Mozilla has to do something to keep that number in check or they will bleed users.
Another thing Apple does is the "percieved" dedication to product lines.
It is kind of funny how we engineers often use the concept KISS, but most companies don't adhere to this when it comes to their product lineup.
Yes I definitely see this as well. I consider myself pretty far onto the nerd scale and I spend too much time looking at spec sheets, hand picking every component when I build my PCs, but when I look at Smartphones/tablets. I see Apples dedication to what they see as the winning niche, and confused cover every conceivable option from the competition.
I am not really into Smartphones, but I see Apples iPhone vs Samsungs Android phones. Samsung seems to have 20+ variations with slight differences and even seems to have carrier specific naming. That is massive division of effort, marketing, etc...
Apple outsells their entire lineup easily with one phone. These leads to concentration of R&D,buying power, marketing etc...
It definitely is another factor in Apples success.
There is no secret weapon. But a great many obvious ones.
First Mover advantage: You can argue tablet existed before, but until iPad, they didn't for the average consumer. Apple's iPad will be seen as the spark that started a new product niche, they will have mindshare advantage, competitors are left playing catch up and will be largely perceived as iPad knockoffs, that you get because you were too cheap, or unsavvy to get an iPad.
Mature OS vs Beta OS: You can argue about better notifications in Android or some other pet feature, but the reality is that Honeycomb is beta quality. It is unstable, apps are crashing all over the place. You certainly aren't going to win converts with this.
Apple consistently builds top quality HW: Again you quibble about some minor spec sheet improvement some competitor has, but Apple is pretty much a safe bet of deliver top quality HW. If you go with the competition, you will have to dissect spec sheets/reviews to make sure you aren't getting a crappy screen or low battery life, etc...
Ecosystem: 65000 tablet specific applications vs 100...
Unique Killer Apps: Apple is creating a suite of excellent apps that off a cut above anything available for Android Tablets. Garage Band, iMovie, Pages, Number etc..
Marketing: Apple is fairly good at marketing and they are clearly outspending all the competition on tablet marketing..
Mom Factor Think about which one you would get for your Mom? I tried to get my Senior Mom using a PC and it was hopeless, but I think an iPad could work for her and I do think it will be easier with an iPad than an Android tablet.
Against this, the main thing Android tablets seem to have going for them is: Nerd rage about walled gardens and Nerd spec sheet worship. That doesn't seem very relevant this time out. I honestly wouldn't have a clue how to compete against iPad and I doubt any of the competition does either, they are just trying to build comparable HW and hoping.
After some earlier waffling, I am planning to get an iPad as my first Apple product ever.
Your product will FAIL if it's priced higher than the "premium" product that is out there.
Yes the new Motorola tablet is better than an Ipad, but it is not PERCIEVED as being a luxury item like the iPad has become.
Since we are talking about perception. Did you consider that the Xoom isn't better and that you are just perceiving it as such?
Why is it that you consider the Motorola Tablet as better? HW is comparable. But the software is beta.
I read several reviews of the Xoom. All had the software crashing all over the place. It was clearly rushed out the door in early beta state to have "something" to compete with, but it really doesn't seem competitive at this point.
Better obviously has some subjectives involved. But my definition of the better product, isn't likely to be the one with unstable software that crashes regularly.
If you _really_ want to find a memory leak, open firefox, do your stuff, open the task manager, leave it open, stop browing and wait. You'll see memory go slowly down.
I am interested in getting to the bottom of this, so I tried your suggestion.
I closed all tabs except just one on this thread and went away for over an hour, with no activity and just one tab open.
On the upside memory usage did not increase.
But unfortunately it did not decrease either, so this appears to be a leak.
Here is what it looked like after an hour idle with ONLY ONE tab open.
http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/1238/ff14.png
Others are reporting the same thing with just (what I consider) the essentials of Addblock, noscript. Also if it is an extension, all the caching makes it very hard to tell which one[s].
If the cache is per/tab Firefox needs to flush it shortly after it is closed, if the leak is in extensions, Firefox needs more sandboxing and cleanup, IDentification etc.
Fixing this needs a much higher priority than fluff.
Back during the 2.x era there was a substantial memory leak which caused serious trouble under normal circumstances. But that has long since been fixed, anybody saying that at this point is probably either a troll or blaming it on an extension with a memory leak.
I am not trolling. I love Firefox. It is by far my preferred browser.
If I have to ditch my Extensions, then Firefox wouldn't be my preferred any more. Extensions make the browser IMO.
I kept Firefox open since my first post. It is now consuming a whopping 1.4 GB with three tabs open...
If it is extensions, Firefox has to sandbox, isolate, control them.
That should be a much higher priority than adding a bunch of useless fluff.
Many have questioned my extension usage.
I use many, 18 to be exact. But it is the extensions that make Firefox great. If I have to stop using extensions, then I would definitely give up on Firefox.
Trying to diagnose which ones are causing issues is also problematic as Firefox still seemed to grow memory for quite a while when I disabled all of them. It fluctuates even when it is sitting idle.
In use Extensions:
Adblock +
BBcodeExtra
BetterPrivacy
Download Statusbar
Download Helper
FireGesturs
FlagFox
Flashblock
FxIF
Lazarurs: Form Recovery
Leechblock
Newsfox
NoScript
SearchPreview
Simple Timer + clocks
Speed Dial
Status-4-Evar
Text2Link
Any of these known to cause leaks?
So did I, until I got Firefox4. I am considering rolling back to FF3.6 or switching to chrome.