Sunday, June 29, 2008

Firefox 3 or Opera 9.5

Well i have personally seen on my ubuntu 8.04 that FC 3 (final) sort of leaks memory. Sometimes with 10 tabs open and 2-3 windows of FF open , memory shows 90MB and sometimes with the same windows and the same sites open, it shows 250 or 300 MB. Even closing windows and tabs, does not reduce memory (not virtual or resident mem) , so it seemed irritating. I have hence started using opera (though sudo apt-get install opera  installs an older version, hence its better you go to opera.com and download the latest 9.5 version). Opera seems to be better , lemme see how it works.

Just download the latest version of opera, and download it as a .deb package. Now open nautilus and go to that .deb package, right click and open with package manager, that will allow you to install. its very very easy.

 

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