Date   : Sat, 19 Dec 2009 13:22:18 +0000
From   : tim.fardell@... (Tim Fardell)
Subject: New Retro Auction Website

Pete Turnbull wrote:
> On 18/12/2009 23:39, Rick Murray wrote:
> 
>> Well... yes. I _like_ Firefox and my collection of add-ons, but I have 
>> to admit there's a hell of a memory leak somewhere. On an eeePC with 1Gb 
>> RAM and SSDs, there is NO swapfile (save burning out the SSD!), so 
>> eventually Windows will choke on running out of memory
> 
> I doubt if that's Firefox, more likely one of your add-ons.  We run 
> Firefox on machines that run 24/7, and I haven't ever seen that behaviour.

I have to use an old 2.x.x.x release of Firefox on my 901. The newer 
versions freeze for about 3 seconds while they access the SSD every 
time I navigate to a new page. I think it's caused by the "dodgy 
phishing site" detection system, but even with this turned off, it 
still seems to check and update the databases.