I updated Mozilla Thunderbird and Firefox today. I'd downloaded Thunderbird 1.5 a couple of weeks ago but had postponed upgrading until now. So far, it doesn't look like a major change from 1.0.5.
Firefox 1.5.0.1 was released yesterday. It's supposed to fix memory leaks and have speed improvements. I first upgraded FF on my iBook and noticed a significant improvement in page load times. I ran top in a terminal before and after the upgrade, and it looks like the new release uses a bit less memory on the iBook. Sometime later I was using FF on my Dell under XP, and it automatically prompted me to upgrade. That went without incident, as well.
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Let me know if you have any problems with FF. I read something about people having problems with them on the Simple Machine BB.
Hey Dave,
Memory leaking is a major Firefox problem under Linux. I got a box with 1.5GB memory and I have seen Firefox eat 2/3 of that after leaving it on for a long time with many tabs. The Mplayer plugin will make things even worse so now I got an alias for 'killall nspluginviewer' :)
You have mentioned Opera before and I must make a plug for it. It doesn't leak like Firefox does. I am not trying to badmouth Firefox (I still use it a lot) but Opera is actually a very good browser and it doesn't leak. I am looking forward to version 9...
Dave T.
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