Firefox 8 for Windows x64: Has 64-bit browsing finally come of age?

hotbowler said:

Just downloaded Nightly 8.0. So far works pretty good, seems faster than FF5. The only problem I had was with Adobe Flash Player, kept wanted the plug-in even though I installed it. Then noticed Zirro's comment above about the 64 bit beta version of Adobe Flash. Downloaded and installed that one and so far no problems at all, all pages load nicely. Not sure about memory usage/leaks, don't know where to monitor that.

To see if there are memory leaks, just open up the Task Manager, click on the Processes tab, and see if the the memory usage for firefox.exe keeps rising even when you're not doing anything. This shouldn't be a problem though since the memory leaks were fixed already.

Thanks for the info Klaw117. Opened task manager and watched Processes for Firefox Nightly. Did not move mouse or anything and it moved from 225,356K when I first looked at it, to a high of 225,580K and then back down to a low of 224,160K. I did this for maybe a couple of minutes. So I'm guessing that this is not too bad.

Yeah, that's nothing to be concerned about.

Klaw117 said:

Yeah, that's nothing to be concerned about.

Thanks. So far I am liking Firefox 8. Seems faster, especially on startup. So far one difference I have seen is that FF8 does not automatically log me in to my Yahoo home page like FF5 does. Not a big deal, figure that will be taken care of when the final version comes out and Yahoo can add their stuff to it.

I was using FireFox browser. Just by happenstance I decided to download the latest Google Chrome. The GC browser performes better than any browser I've ever used. I decided to not use my IE explorer. My computer shop guru warned me that it is too dangerous. Too many opportunities to be compromised. I can't afford to be paying for damage from hackers' viruses to be repaired by my Guru all the time.