Firefox Woes: Memory Leaking, Hanging, Incorrect Rendering etc.

Firefox has its own share of troubles. If I happen to open few sites with Flash advertisements on them and leave it open for some time, Firefox gobbles up most of the memory and becomes dog-slow. And there are more.

Like Flash, Java applets also are not a performance star with Firefox; Internet Explorer fares much better.

Firefox also has rendering issues where certain Javascript inserted code gets incorrectly rendered occassionally (like Blogads).

With 1.5 Firefox has strangely removed Dictionary.com as one of its available search engines. It was very useful. I cannot think of any reason to remove it except monetary. And it is replaced by useless wikipedia-clone - Answers.com.

In all these pain, SessionSaver extension is a real savior. You can anytime close all your windows and restart Firefox. It will ensure all tabs are back with the pages loaded appropriately.

Firefox 1.5 allows tab reordering. I don’t have to use any extension for it anymore.

Overall I still like Firefox. It still is my favorite browser.