Well, I don’t know if it’s only me but FF keeps freezing on my MacBook Pro all the time, as soon as I have more than 3 tabs open it just freezes and does not respond at all, only force-quitting it solves the problem. The issue usually comes up when I load a page with embedded video and it’s really weird.
It’s certainly not a requirements issue as my Mac runs an Intel Core Duo at 2.2 Ghz and 2 GB or RAM, and that should easily be able to handle a couple of tabs open at the same time. I’ve worked with Photoshop, Flash, Dreamweaver, iTunes and a couple documents at the same time and no problems at all, except that it get so hot you could easy fry an egg on it.
Another thing I hate about FF is the amount of resources it takes, on a regular run with about 4 tabs open loaded with mostly plain text it already uses a few hundred MB of RAM, this just ain’t normal and some Windows FF users may have noticed the same issue. It’s killing the resources. By the way, I already tried reinstalling it a couple of times. No luck!
I can’t wait on version 3 of FF, I hear they have several major fixed and even more improvements, well, I guess we’ll see when it’s around.
Here’s some extra reading:
- Frequent freezes on Mac
- Is FF on Mac unusable?
- Mozilla Gran Paradiso Alpha 3
- FireFox 3 schedule