firefox on mac.... why so resource hungry?

[otispunkmeyer]

i dunno if this is just me or this is a global thing, but FF on my mac regularly saps 20% just to sit there an do nothing.

i had a regular forum page open on a forum i go to alot and its needing 20% to show a page that is comprised of just 3 colours. red, white n dark grey

by comparison safari needs oh about 0.5% if that

 

[ViRGE]

That's Firefox for you. It has always been a resource pig on all platforms, and you get double whammied if you are using Flash too.

Try the latest Firefox 3 beta, I find it's a bit easier on resource consumption.

 

[Megatomic]

Or you could try Camino. It's based on the Gecko rendering engine, produced by Mozilla, and looks like an app Apple might have written in terms of appearance. I like it alot.