[ale] Firefox periodically needs restarting

[Brian Pitts]

Jim Philips wrote:
> On Sunday 06 January 2008 01:54:41 pm Jim Lynch wrote:
> 
> Firefox 3 is supposed to address most of the memory leak issues. I've had good 
> luck with 3.0b2 so far. I haven't left it up for days, though. I think it 
> crashed on me several times while running YouTube videos. At any rate, I'm 
> finding this version to be very stable already. If it were compatible with 
> all of my add-ons, I would be using it all of the time.
> 

My Firefox crashes are almost always caused by Flash. I tired Gnash but 
it isn't yet compatible with much flash in the wild. Upgrading to 
Adobe's 9,0,115,0 has improved the situation. I'm waiting on 
compatibility with the del.icio.us addon before trying FF3.

-Brian