MSDN wrecked on Firefox

News & General Discussion
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My Firefox (OSX) shows a big white block on the MSDN; this doesn’t happen on Windows, or on Safari (OSX). Sample here, see pic below.
Anyone else has this problem? Any ideas?

I don’t want to have to use Safari since it has no tabs, and anyway the code shows up too small so for the MSDN it’s basically unusable.

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Browsers are funky and handsome apps these days. Having Safari open with one page not seldom means something about 150MB of physical RAM and 350MB of virtuell MEM beeing occupied. Thinking of what could be done with so much memory on an amiga makes me dizzy.

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I don’t know about the Firefox problem, but Safari does have tabs. Go to Safari->Preferences and then look at the Tabs category.

Cheers,
-Jon

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That always bothers me about process memory allocation in OSX. Even small processes that are idle take up 50-100MB. I mean Skype now is taking 53MB, MozyBackup is taking 34MB. WTF! I don’t think this should take more than ~10MB and that’s being generous. All those procs have to do is sit there and wait for messages or run at set intervals and display a simple GUI, why all the memory when idle? Doesn’t anyone free unused mem. back to the heap these days? :smile:

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To taumel: exactly, having Safari open just for one or two MSDN pages seems a considerable waste!

To Jon: thanks for the tip, I thought that was odd… and now think its odd that it’s not activated by default. Apple probably prefers its desktops to be completely clutered with windows…

But anyway, I still prefer FF, I have too many extensions on it to let go of it, and as I said, the MSDN on Safari is unreadable (I don’t know who’s “wrong”, Safari or FF, don’t know which one is more standard-compliant but that’s not the point).

So… back to the original question :stuck_out_tongue:

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To make text readable, under the view menu select “make text bigger”. I think it’s Command +.

There’s something wrong with Safari (and perhaps webkit) that makes it use way too much memory. I’ve noticed how if you keep up too many tabs for too long, then the whole computer slows down. Try quitting it every day. Pity it has no way to save states, like firefox, eh?