i am so hating firefox 3.0.11 right now! i seriously wish that i didn't update it anymore, i mean, after all, i barely see any improvements with every firefox update. but then again, i thought, i rather have it updated in case there are some security measures that have been added or improved. either way, i did and now my CPU and memory is dying! yes, the new firefox 3.0.11 is killing my CPU, sometimes consuming 100% of BOTH my processor's cores and takes up about 65,000 K of my memory. that's about 65 MB or 6.5 GB! my ghad! and i'm only running on 1GB of RAM!
i was thinking of upgrading my RAM to 2GB and finally defragmenting it but after the scare i had the last year, i'm a bit wary. yeah, remember, my computer was under repair for more than a month(!) because for some reason, my free space kept on getting larger and larger by 1gb for every hour. this was the day after i just defragmented it so i dunno if it's supposed to be a gradual process, or instant free-space. either way, nearly 6 hours after defragmentation, i still kept on gaining free space. from 114 GB, my free space shot up to 121GB so i panicked espeically since in safe mode, i only have 119 GB of free space available. in the end, i had the HD replaced. go figure.
ugh... i hope i can finally resolve this problem with firefox. worse comes to worst, i will be switching browsers, maybe to google chrome. but i'm not sure yet since i've been hearing reviews that it also consumes 100% of one's CPU. haaaay....