Firefox 2 memory leak... found out what it was?

Well... after trying to track down everything, apparently a "extension that fixed a memory leak" didn't -- despite what everything said! So, despite the McAfee SiteAdviser plugin being useful to see if websites I develop are being redlisted, it's gotta go!

Oh, and the "performancing" extension also has a memory leak with the newest version at this date. But I never used it, so it's gone.

Firefox 2 memory leak -- in popup windows!

I think I've found it! Thanks to the "memory leak extension", I now have seen when Firefox leaks memory -- on most popup windows that are loaded by javascript. On almost every popup window, close it down and the alert box tells me that objects weren't unloaded and it's in a "chrome" and some file (can't remember) ending in ".js".

So now I've found it apparently! now... if they'd only fix the freaking thing!

Firefox 2 Memory Leaks?

I can't be the only one having these right? I keep on searching and searching, but everytime I look for "Firefox 2 memory leaks" online all I get are "they fixed them!" NO! They can't possibly be fixed...

I downloaded an extension that should tell if another extension has a memory leak -- nothing pops up. All the extensions I have are the newest version.

But here's what happens:
Computer has 220MB used on a restart / login (or even multiple log out / logins).
Run firefox (log out, back in, etc).
Computer has 230, 240, 250, 260, 270MB used at login with nothing running other than the same! It's like at each logoff it "loses" 10 MB due to firefox - but it's only lost at logout and only if firefox is run.

And here's the freaky part:
Computer is using 250 MB of RAM
Run Firefox, firefox uses 40MB of RAM
What's the total memory usage? if you said 290MB -- you're wrong! It's 280MB.

With Firefox v1-1.5, the tab mix plus extension fixed this problem. Now with firefox 2 it's back, and not even that extension fixes it! yet it's the exact same thing that I had a problem with with the version 1.x ones....

But the really strange part is Firefox is listed as using 8-10MB more memory than it's actually using by the system by the task manager. If the task manager says it's using "40 MB" it's only using 30MB more memory than the computer was using before it ran. What's up with the 10MB? The only difference on my computer from version 1.5 (that stopped doing this after tab mix plus), and version 2 -- is Firefox!

I wonder if they'll ever get this strange thing fixed?

Birthdays

Today I'm 30... it's a nice big and round number that has wonderful side effects:
1) Health Insurance rates increase by $20/month
2) I'm more "prone" to health problems
3) Sexual things are decreased (well, they say at least)
4) Even fewer single women my age around, and people half my age are learning to drive.

Well... At least some things seem to be going well.

Letter to the Editor -- misspelled my name!

Well, I wasn't planning on my artical being in the letter to the editor, but I did expect one thing to happen -- them to get my name right! How hard is it to spell an entire letter properly with little-no editing, but screw up the person's name.

That just shocks me. Spell everything right, but mess up the name. You'd think an editor, the top/senior one at that, would get that right.

Letter to the Editor

Well if this isn't shocking. I wrote a little letter, more of an article actually, and sent it to the editor of the local paper. I figured it'd be dismissed about as quickly as any other inquiries to them about business related things. But to my surprise, he replied and is sticking it in the letters to the editor -- and he said it's there because more people read that then the articles that are in the paper.

Well, not sure if I believe him, or if it's just a thing of actual articles have to be paid, letters to the editor don't. But it is surprising that he decided to actually put it in the paper.

Now if it actually makes it is another story.

Teenage stupidity

Teenagers stupidity never ceases to amaze me.

Almost every day, there are a few teenage boys that wander the streets, having mock sex with each other. Their only goal is to get others to watch them kiss and fondle each other's bodies -- even if it involves screaming for "help!" or just running in front of people or cars and doing it in the road.

But then comes the shocking part... they yell as loud as they can any derogative term for "homosexual" to the people that look their direction! But the people really don't have a choice in the matter, look or you're run into them, or ignore the cries for help.

What's the point of this? Trying to re-create a modern day "cry wolf?"

Back when I was younger, it was the people having sexual relations with the same sex that were homosexual, not the ones that looked in their direction. I never realized that it changed. A woman with a child is gay, and so is her husband according to these teens; so are the elderly using walkers. I guess you could say, there's at least no discrimination of who's "gay" in their minds.

No matter what, there's just something about this trend that not only is stupid, but like the men are trying to explore their sexuality, or just trying to hide it from others by yelling their remarks to anyone who glances in the direction.

Yelling the crap they do is almost slander, their actions are most likely illegal in themselves -- yet it's so common, that no one seems to do anything or figures that there's no proof if they did press charges. And amazingly, they do seem to be afraid of the police, mock hump another guy, cop pulls onto the street, it stops. So they know it's wrong, or just illegal.

Perhaps the thing that bothers me most about this is a simple fact -- it's teens like this that will be running the world one day, or at least making the products that our lives depend on.