Firefox

[abaddonxi]

Had to change back to Opera, Firefox is turning into the worst kind of memory hog. Even with only one page open Firefox is eating 150Mb of memory.

Any thoughts?

Cheers
Simon

[Omaroo]

Mine takes a pretty constant 90Mb, but then again i run 2Gb of memory and a 64-bit processor - so there may be some differences in the way mapping is handled.

[abaddonxi]

Wouldn't mind 90Mb, it's the 250-380Mb that it runs as standard when I've got the small https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ number of pages I usually have running, and the way it kills everything else. I only run 512Mb RAM, and 150Mb isn't much overhead for XP.

Opera, on the other hand, is running a slim 80MB, just that it's a bit ugly.

Cheers
Simon

[disco_ute]

mine only hogs about 40mb ram with 2 or 3 tabs going.... but i only have 512mb here at work and most of that is taken up by word, outlook etc and I am running windows xp fully serviced packed.

are u running the latest version of firefox? Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

when in doubt power out https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ works for TD5’s as well


Mick

[Captain_Rightfoot]

Are we talking Mac or PC? Are we talking virtual or real memory? On the Mac here I did notice that firefow uses more memory than safari... the default browser.

As I sit here safari is using around 50mb of real memory and 270mb of virtual memory. I opened 3 tabs in firefox and it was about the same. Like I said, I have noticed firefox chewing memory before though.

Anyway... if you don't like what is happening just close the application down and all the memory will be freed up... or if you have PC re-booting will achive the same. https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

[Pedro_The_Swift]

firefox, 35mg
thunderbird, 23mg

the older versions had this problem.

[abaddonxi]

Latest version of Firefox - and only started happening with this version.

Usually run 20-30 open windows....

PC PIII, 512Mb RAM.

"What d'you mean, 'she can't take it anymore Captain?'"

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/


Opera, running about 40 windows 102Mb.

Cheers
Simon

[loanrangie]

Originally posted by abaddonxi
Latest version of Firefox - and only started happening with this version.

Usually run 20-30 open windows....

PC PIII, 512Mb RAM.

"What d'you mean, 'she can't take it anymore Captain?'"

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/


Opera, running about 40 windows 102Mb.

Cheers
Simon

20 - 30 windows open ! no wonder its hogging your ram !

[Captain_Rightfoot]

Originally posted by loanrangie+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(loanrangie)</div><div class='quotemain'><!--QuoteBegin-abaddonxi
Latest version of Firefox - and only started happening with this version.

Usually run 20-30 open windows....

PC PIII, 512Mb RAM.

"What d'you mean, 'she can't take it anymore Captain?'"

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/


Opera, running about 40 windows 102Mb.

Cheers
Simon

20 - 30 windows open ! no wonder its hogging your ram ![/b][/quote]
Haha https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Running 40 windows you're going to need a di-lithium crystal!

[disco_ute]

Originally posted by abaddonxi
Latest version of Firefox - and only started happening with this version.

Usually run 20-30 open windows....

PC PIII, 512Mb RAM.

"What d'you mean, 'she can't take it anymore Captain?'"

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/


Opera, running about 40 windows 102Mb.

Cheers
Simon

my pc at work had similar specs and she can't handle that kind of load, she start to freeze and carry on if i open more then bout 20 windows mind u my brain starts to have virtual memory faults if i open more then 2 https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

[abaddonxi]

Originally posted by Captain_Rightfoot+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Captain_Rightfoot)</div><div class='quotemain'>
Originally posted by loanrangie@
<!--QuoteBegin-abaddonxi
Latest version of Firefox - and only started happening with this version.

Usually run 20-30 open windows....

PC PIII, 512Mb RAM.

"What d'you mean, 'she can't take it anymore Captain?'"

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/


Opera, running about 40 windows 102Mb.

Cheers
Simon

20 - 30 windows open ! no wonder its hogging your ram !
Haha https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Running 40 windows you're going to need a di-lithium crystal![/b][/quote]

wait till I get my receipt. I'm sure the guy who sold it to me swore that he put one of them in when he built it.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/ https://www.aulro.com/afvb/

Cheers
Simon

[abaddonxi]

Well, finally worked that problem out.


63Mb history file.





I get around.


Cheers
Simon

[rick130]

btw, there's an update of Firefox available, if it hasn't already told you.
4bee had problems with it and his firewall, (previous updates/versions ok) though I think he's sorted it by now.