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On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Chris Keegan <nospam at theisolationist.com> wrote:
>  Just wondering if anyone's experiencing instabilities running gmail with
>  firefox? I'm getting it crash literally every 30 minutes, which is becoming
>  tiresome. It locks up Firefox, then grabs a ton of memory (which it does
>  eventually release) but doesn't ever seem to unfreeze poor old firefox.
>  Killing the process is the only remedy that i've found. Not just on windows
>  either, I'm getting it on Ubuntu (gutsy).
>
>  I'm using some HTML signature greasemonkey scripts as well as Better GMail2.

Late to the party (holidays, holidays) but I run GMail (and other
apps) inside instances of Prism [1] (formerly XULRunner) now, mainly
in order to protect Firefox from memory-hungry apps, but I've also
come to prefer it to "regular" browser-based running of these apps.
Links still open in your default browser, which is great.

Yes, it could be more configurable, but I find it perfectly usable.
Note that on the Mac, it seems to only want to run one Prism "app" at
a time, whereas there's no such restriction on Windows. Haven't tried
it on Linux.

Mac users could use Fluid [2] instead, but it's Leopardware.

Tim

[1] http://wiki.mozilla.org/Prism
[2] http://fluidapp.com/