Status of the Firefox memory leak?

[Derek Broughton]

Lee Revell wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 22:27 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> If you disable the flash plugin, does it leak at the same rate?
>> 
> 
> No, I've been running for days and have yet to trigger the massive leak.
> 
> But, the Web is *unusable* these days without the damn thing! 

Not _quite_ unusable yet, but I hear you.  

> Every 
> other site I go to has Flash ads, which I really don't miss, but it
> seems to be the de facto standard for Web video these days.  (I've even
> heard Windows users complain about a site that "uses some proprietary
> video format, and why don't they just use Flash!" - ugh)

Double ugh! :-)
-- 
derek