Icedrake Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 On my computer, FF takes up almost 100mb memory! Is it a mem hog? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony A Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 On my computer, FF takes up almost 100mb memory! Is it a mem hog? FireFox uses the most memory of the 7 browsers I have installed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators rridgely Posted April 27, 2008 Moderators Share Posted April 27, 2008 Yes, it always has been. firefox 3 is supposed to fix the memory leaks but they've been saying that since 1.0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icedrake Posted April 27, 2008 Author Share Posted April 27, 2008 I wonder when they're going to fix this problem. It's really annoying for low-mem computers because just FF itself takes up almost 100mb of memory. So if you had around 512 mem, that's about 1/5 of the total memory. Also, there's other programs running... EDIT: OMG, Look at this picture: Check out the amount of mem FF is taking up on this guy's PC! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfenech Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 On my PC, with 12 or more tabs open all the time, Firefox 3 uses half the memory of Firefox 2. It's much faster too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anthony A Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 EDIT: OMG, Look at this picture: Check out the amount of mem FF is taking up on this guy's PC! I can assure you that isn't normal. FF is a hog but not like that. That guy probably hasn't shut down FF in a month or he has 500 hundred extensions installed but that isn't normal even for FF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icedrake Posted April 27, 2008 Author Share Posted April 27, 2008 I heard that reducing the amount of extensions in FF reduces the amount of mem FF takes; is this true? Also, is there something called "prefetching" in FF? Because I haven't noticed anything like that. Also, could someone take a look in my Opera problem topic and see what the problem is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotdoge3 Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 now on 42 MB but run from 22 to 55 MB Firefox have help with this, addons can go bad & leak memory, try in tools > Options Pick disable now see how it go if ok add one at a time till you find the bad one, then Pick uninstal & fit new & it fixed. 88,448 K = 86 MB CPU 2% [ on 1 May 2008 ] explorer 8,996 K Ad-Aware 44,440 K = 43 MB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators Andavari Posted April 28, 2008 Moderators Share Posted April 28, 2008 Yes, it always has been. firefox 3 is supposed to fix the memory leaks but they've been saying that since 1.0. I can vouch for that too, as I'm sitting here typing this and it's using 71,312 k and slowly but surely feeding on some more k each second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfenech Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Y'all quit complaining and get the beta. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CTskifreak Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 I've been using Firetune for Firefox, found here. Follow the directions - it seems to help with Firefox 2. Then again, I don't have a many extensions (about 6), and I never have a lot of tabs open at once. AJ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icedrake Posted April 28, 2008 Author Share Posted April 28, 2008 Y'all quit complaining and get the beta. The new beta actually doesn't do anything about the memory leaks. It does improve Firefox overall but it doesn't deal with the memory leak issue. I hope they fix it before the final release of FF3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfenech Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 Ummmmm..... I believe it does, actually. I see proof of it as I type. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom AZ Posted April 28, 2008 Share Posted April 28, 2008 I'm using FF2 right now -- about 54MB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom AZ Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 Oops. May have spoken too soon. Have been online using FF2 for a while -- now at 100MB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icedrake Posted April 29, 2008 Author Share Posted April 29, 2008 Ummmmm..... I believe it does, actually. I see proof of it as I type. How much mem is Firefox using right now? Do you have more than 1 tab open? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeoff Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 7 tabs open here.. 100 mb with ff3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfenech Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 How much mem is Firefox using right now? Do you have more than 1 tab open? I just restarted FF - used CCleaner while it was closed - and have 15 tabs open currently. I always have at least 12 open. Mem is 95mb. I'll post the number again within the next few hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfenech Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 115mb now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icedrake Posted April 29, 2008 Author Share Posted April 29, 2008 Thats still almost 2 times the memory Opera uses with 16 tabs open. Opera used only about 50 mb memory while my FF used 100mb+. I use Firefox and Opera though, Firefox for the addons and Opera for the speed, reliability, and others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mfenech Posted April 29, 2008 Share Posted April 29, 2008 That's fine, but what I quoted half of what I'd get with Firefox 2, which was my point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icedrake Posted April 30, 2008 Author Share Posted April 30, 2008 Oh, ok. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forte Lambardi Posted May 1, 2008 Share Posted May 1, 2008 I wonder when they're going to fix this problem. It's really annoying for low-mem computers because just FF itself takes up almost 100mb of memory. So if you had around 512 mem, that's about 1/5 of the total memory. Also, there's other programs running... EDIT: OMG, Look at this picture: Check out the amount of mem FF is taking up on this guy's PC! I run a 256 MB of RAM PC so you can imagine how badly FF would impact my own system . The odd thing is I never noticed how much of a memory hog it could be until people started saying it was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icedrake Posted May 1, 2008 Author Share Posted May 1, 2008 I have McAfee on my computer and its 448 MB of RAM. Now I've switched to Opera and I'm probably going to dump McAfee too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotdoge3 Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 On my computer, FF takes up almost 100mb memory! Is it a mem hog? http://internetducttape.com/2006/12/02/how...k-firefox-hack/ How to fix the Firefox memory leak # Known Leaky Extensions * Fixed * Not Fixed Things That are Not Leaks Firefox Memory Usage Doesn't Always Go Down This is generally not an issue, and does not represent a memory leak. Why? When Firefox is finished with memory, it releases it to its heap. However, operating system reports this memory as being in use, even though Firefox is not using it for anything. A common symptom of this is the amount of memory used by Firefox going up, but not coming down - instead staying constant. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/26/firefox_update/ http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/faqs/memusage.html http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows/fix...eak-on-windows/ http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox/dea...sues-171301.php http://www.firefoxfacts.com/2007/12/10/fix...emory-problems/ http://www.zolved.com/synapse/view_content...sage_on_Firefox http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/009749.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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