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well.. after a day or so of running 1.5 Beta 1 without closing, it's up to 100M of RAM, but that's a slower curve than before, so I'm happier, but not so much happy per se..
Main problem is that Mozilla development is rather laid back about memory footprint increases. They've got a very strict performance regression policy, but increases in the memory footprint generally don't cause the branch to be frozen.
Hmm... you know what I'd really like to do now? Make a website with an SVG+CSS+HTML design (you know, use SVG where you would have used images... that would be so cool, except I have no clue where to start).
Firefox 1.5 beta 1 is beautiful! What a great piece of software. It renders pages even faster, manages updates much more coherently and comfortably, feels just like one mean machine. Loving it already - and hasn't crashed on me once. Memorywise it seems to have improved, but I've not had it long enough to be say much about it.
Only downside, atm, are that not all the extensions are working with it - but that's only a question of time - and with the updates manager it's easy.
Each window in mine uses about 8% Mem (from 512MB)... that's version 1.0.6 Linux. I have noticed in the upgarde frm 1.0.5 to 1.0.6 forms (???) seem to have gotten buggy and slow (i.e. the cursor takes a while to move from one box to the next). Macromedia Flash page components usually send my CPU sky-high too
Firefox security hole reported
Firefox users have been alerted to a potential security flaw in the open source browser. The news will come as an embarrassment to the developers who have just released a beta of version 1.5 which is intended to address a number of security issues.
According to security researcher Tom Ferris a buffer overflow vulnerability exists within the current Firefox version 1.0.6, all previous versions and the beta of 1.5. Ferris says a strikingly simple piece of HTML can allow an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code on an affected host.
Ferris says he has notified the team at Mozilla about the problem and awaits their response. The Mozilla team says they are currently investigating the reported vulnerability. However, Ferris's claims cannot be easily dismissed as he has a track record of discovering new bugs in Windows software.
Although initially billed as a more secure browser than Internet Explorer, Firefox has had its own share of security problems in the past few months. However, the Mozilla team is pressing ahead with the new versions ahead of the next release of Internet Explorer expected before the end of the year.
i love how people think that just because you have firefox, you have a shield. All programs have bugs, and holes will be found. its just that Firefox has less holes than IE