Comment Who Cares About the Engine if the Clutch Burns Out (Score 1) 435
Before another feature is added, before another UI pixel is tweaked, before so much as a single clock cycle of normal performance is optimized, I want FireFox to stop leaking memory and most especially to stop running up the CPU from 10% to 95% (as reported by top) several times a day even in safe-mode.
Yeah, I've tried about a dozen different fixes. I'm not here begging for help; that's what the tech support forums are for.
I'm just declaring: today I'm going to waste my afternoon uninstalling FF, wiping my profile, and re-installing FF from scratch, and I am not happy about that.
If that doesn't fix it, FF goes poof and doesn't come back until I read that this problem has been clearly identified and stomped flat. This is the kind of crap I left IE (and indeed, Windows itself -- I'm on Ubuntu) to get away from -- and no, I don't mean the CPU hogging.
I mean the attitude that feature creep and marginal tweaking is more important than fixing severe usability problems.