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Posted by Gauss on May-26-2007 14:41:

Question regarding Firefox

Is it normal for Firefox to have memory usage of approximately 100 MB?

Posted by noikeee on May-26-2007 14:43:

Re: Question regarding Firefox

quote:
Originally posted by Gauss
Is it normal for Firefox to have memory usage of approximately 100 MB?

If you're running a plugin that runs in the background analysing space galaxy images from NASA in order to find aliens, yeah.

Posted by noikeee on May-26-2007 14:44:

Actually mine now is at 115 MB and I have no fucking clue why.

Posted by DJ Mikey Mike on May-26-2007 14:48:

100 MB seems a bit excessive. Depending on plugins, it should be around about the 60 MB mark.

Posted by Ian on May-26-2007 15:11:

quote:
Originally posted by noikeee
Actually mine now is at 115 MB and I have no fucking clue why.

They're tracking us

Posted by noikeee on May-26-2007 15:15:

quote:
Originally posted by Ian
They're tracking us

The aliens?

Posted by Domesticated on May-26-2007 15:20:

34

no plugins going though.

Posted by nchs09 on May-26-2007 15:25:

mine is @ 45 right now....

Posted by Gauss on May-26-2007 15:29:

It's alright now, currently @ 57 MB with 3 tabs open. After restarting it completely it goes to ~30 MB. Really have no idea why it went over 100 MB about 2 hours ago, though...

Posted by Domesticated on May-26-2007 15:33:

I love Firefox, could never go back to IE, but does anyone else get that annoying glitch where windows just disappear from the taskbar, desktop and everywhere, then re-appear at a random time, maybe five minutes or five hours afterwards?

It's doing my head in, especially when I've been looking at "sensitive" information at work, which always reappears just as my manager walks past.

Posted by nchs09 on May-26-2007 15:36:

quote:
Originally posted by Beat Blog
I love Firefox, could never go back to IE, but does anyone else get that annoying glitch where windows just disappear from the taskbar, desktop and everywhere, then re-appear at a random time, maybe five minutes or five hours afterwards?

It's doing my head in, especially when I've been looking at "sensitive" information at work, which always reappears just as my manager walks past.
never had that problem. reinstall it?

Posted by Boomer187 on May-26-2007 15:58:

mine will get up to 100 a lot of the time. Usually after its been open a long time. right now its sittin at 50k.

Posted by Omega_M on May-26-2007 16:22:

Whenever I close firefox, I usually have 2 or 3 tabs open and I close all of them at once. So the next time I open the browser, firefox asks whether I want to start a new session or restart an old one. It seems to think that closing all tabs at once is an exception. I want to disable this popup. Anybody know how to do it ?

Posted by AnomalyConcept on May-26-2007 16:24:

Firefox caches recently view pages so if you decide to hit 'back', it won't have to fetch it again.

Across multiple tabs, it means that a lot of pages are being stored, leading to large amounts of memory being consumed. There is a way to turn it off, or at least to use less memory, but it's not easily accessible.

Here are a few tips that you can use to reduce Firefox memory usage:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Reducing_...usage_-_Firefox
http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/20...in-firefox.html
http://www.liewcf.com/blog/archives...x-memory-usage/

Personally, I don't/haven't used any of the above settings, and I've seen Firefox use 200+ MB.

If you're using an older version <2.0, you should upgrade, as a few of the more common memory leaks have been fixed.

Hope this helps.

Posted by Lira on May-26-2007 16:27:

Re: Question regarding Firefox

quote:
Originally posted by Gauss
Is it normal for Firefox to have memory usage of approximately 100 MB?

It is, to me.

Posted by gehzumteufel on May-26-2007 17:02:

i hate firefox. IE7 is great. clean simple interface but not too simple. also it doesnt have some crazy memory leak that pushes it way over 100mb! ive never had it run over 50mb with multiple tabs open and leaving it open for days at a time. also connections are faster.

Posted by shaw on May-26-2007 17:47:

65

that seems excessive.

Posted by _Nut_ on May-26-2007 19:38:

quote:
Originally posted by gehzumteufel
i hate firefox. IE7 is great. clean simple interface but not too simple. also it doesnt have some crazy memory leak that pushes it way over 100mb! ive never had it run over 50mb with multiple tabs open and leaving it open for days at a time. also connections are faster.

It is not a memory leak. FF caches history so pages load very fast. If you have 5 tabs open with a ton of browsing done in each of them... there is a LOT that is cached.

Posted by superglo on May-26-2007 20:39:

88mb for me .

Posted by Arbiter on May-26-2007 22:13:

My IE6 is using 12mb right now. Thanks for reminding me why I don't use Firesloth.

Posted by Ian on May-26-2007 22:23:

quote:
Originally posted by Arbiter
My IE6 is using 12mb right now. Thanks for reminding me why I don't use Firesloth.

but IE6 is about as secure as Jennie's back alleyway.

Posted by Lira on May-26-2007 22:25:

Opera || Firefox > Netscape > IE

Posted by Gauss on May-27-2007 01:15:

quote:
Originally posted by Arbiter
My IE6 is using 12mb right now. Thanks for reminding me why I don't use Firesloth.

IE6? Oh...

Posted by bas on May-27-2007 01:18:

quote:
Originally posted by Ian
but IE6 is about as secure as Jennie's back alleyway.

Posted by Zoso on May-27-2007 01:45:

It's actually a well known bug. Firefox (I love it) leaks like a damned seive. They keep trying to fix the issue, but I see little progress being made. It's not uncommon for it to go well over 100MB if you leave it open long enough.

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