[l33txp]

This is just crazy... no extensions, nothing.. fresh install and open to the home page.. memory usage? CRAZY!! This is after I started FF.. I opened a new tab, it almost went as high as 200,000k of memory usage.. what the hell???



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[Eugene C]

Mine only goes up to 150,000KB, and that's with three tabs and with nine addons and a theme.

Than again, Firefox is known for sucking a lot of memory.

[Ryan Price]

Not much more than IE , then again i really hope they fix this with firefox 4 ...this thing has been around since at least version 2

[c0lin]

Chrome seems to be taking very little. Roughly 10-20k per tab.

[Justin]

Ouch. FF is using over twice as much memory as any other process. This with... 4 tabs open and 8 extensions enabled.


Ah well, I suppose it's not that much of an issue. 8GB of RAM, and I seldom ever use much of it.

Then again, even with Strata40, Firefox is beginning to bore me. I'm considering a return to Chrome...

[Sevan]

Almost 60MB for me, with 3 tabs open.

[Mitchell]

If you think that's bad, I've seen Firefox use over 500MB of RAM at times.

However, this seems to be a common theme for most browsers as they all seem to have some kind of memory leak after running for large amounts of time, especially on systems with larger amounts of RAM. It's just that some are worse than others, Firefox probably being number one.

[amon91]

121,364K here. It's not an issue for me as I have quite a lot of RAM but as many of you have said it's shocking they haven't fixed something that's been around for years.

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This reminded me of the Longhorn explorer.exe memory leak. Good job guys.

[Asad]

Firefox (and for that matter any other application) will use more RAM if you HAVE more RAM. On my netbook it rarely goes above 60-70MB, goes up to 300MB on occasion on my desktop with 6GB RAM occasionally - with similar usage levels.

[Steve]

Funny, I was expecting 3.6 to be a huge release but it wasn't that great to be honest. Not much different to 3.5. I'm now using Chrome at the moment and liking it a lot. Might make a permanent switch.

EDIT: Can't make a permanent switch because Essay's don't like submitting to Blackboard on Chrome.

[Justin]

Heh. Just now decided to make the switch back to Chrome.

Much more reasonable.

[Benjamin Hubbard]

amon91, on 22 January 2010 - 10:43 AM, said:

121,364K here. It's not an issue for me as I have quite a lot of RAM but as many of you have said it's shocking they haven't fixed something that's been around for years.

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This reminded me of the Longhorn explorer.exe memory leak. Good job guys.

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ugh. Craphorn.

I remember running into all those Longhorn Memory Leaks while playing with the betas. Longhorn Sucks. Always has, always will.

My Firefox 3.6 is using 103,852k. I have 4Gb ram so I don't really care even if it does hit 300Mb (which it only did back when I applied that horrible longhorn theme to it in '08. ugh.)

Though I do want to switch to Safari. I just am not sure if lastpass works with safari. something I still have to get around to checking.

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Then again, even with Strata40, Firefox is beginning to bore me. I'm considering a return to Chrome...

Don't switch browsers for looks. Switch for different usability.

I don't understand people who get really excited about something then drop it when they get "bored" after a few weeks. Browsers are tools to get you where you want to go. that would be like renting a car because you really like it, then trading it for another car just because you got used to the way the first one operated.

[l33txp]

I'm loving the replies.. I just don't see the point in any browser use that much ram.. more ram, the more it uses, while this is true it doesn't seem to be necessary ...

[Justin]

Benjamin Hubbard, on 23 January 2010 - 12:05 AM, said:

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ugh. Craphorn.

I remember running into all those Longhorn Memory Leaks while playing with the betas. Longhorn Sucks. Always has, always will.

My Firefox 3.6 is using 103,852k. I have 4Gb ram so I don't really care even if it does hit 300Mb (which it only did back when I applied that horrible longhorn theme to it in '08. ugh.)

Though I do want to switch to Safari. I just am not sure if lastpass works with safari. something I still have to get around to checking.


Don't switch browsers for looks. Switch for different usability.

I don't understand people who get really excited about something then drop it when they get "bored" after a few weeks. Browsers are tools to get you where you want to go. that would be like renting a car because you really like it, then trading it for another car just because you got used to the way the first one operated.

I don't really see a reason to use Safari on Windows over Chrome. Using it on OSX right now though.
And perhaps so, but nothing wrong with switching between a few equally qualified tools just to keep things interesting.
That'd be like keeping the exact same theme, wallpaper, desktop layout, and all for years at a time. You'd get bored with it too.
Humm... wonder how much memory Safari 4 on 10.6.2 is using...
Actually, I'll install a few browsers, open the same number of tabs in all of them, and post RAM usage here.

This is with JJ, GS, and TWC open in each of them.
Heh. Seems Safari is the worst for memory usage.
IE is awful for CPU, because it's an old PPC app, so Rosetta emulation it is.
Awful for using too. Have a look at this.

[Panda X]

It's called a cache.

I hate explaining this to every person who complains about it or calls it a memory leak.

[Patrick Laughner]

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Doesn't do anything different here on 6GB RAM. I guess I just don't have that big of a cache.

[l33txp]

Panda X, on 23 January 2010 - 06:47 AM, said:

It's called a cache.

I hate explaining this to every person who complains about it or calls it a memory leak.

Did I say anything about a memory leak? No.. not that I recall. Your $0.02 has been noted and processed.. move along troll.

[Asad]

l33txp, on 23 January 2010 - 03:31 PM, said:

Did I say anything about a memory leak? No.. not that I recall. Your $0.02 has been noted and processed.. move along troll.

Did you just call a well respected member of many forums a troll? Nice.

And the "issue" has often been called a "memory leak". Seems to me like you're complaining about it too, just that you didn't use the term Panda mentioned.

[l33txp]

Asad, on 23 January 2010 - 03:54 PM, said:

Did you just call a well respected member of many forums a troll? Nice.

And the "issue" has often been called a "memory leak". Seems to me like you're complaining about it too, just that you didn't use the term Panda mentioned.

"well respected member of many forums" .. Ok I'll buy that.. since it's a public forum I guess it's important to be respected. He has an opinion and so do I.. because of that simple fact why should I mince my opinion on something that was posted.. I did not call this a memory leak, I was merely making a comment on the fact that the amount of RAM used by FF was a ton for not having multiple tabs running.. it doesn't really matter .. move on.

[Chris123NT]

Guys, tone it down on the arguing and personal attacks please, thanks.

The OP's complaint is definitely a valid one, as I've personally seen Firefox's ram usage go into the stratosphere for seemingly no reason. I've seen it chomp down 500+MB on a regular basis and even found it using 1 GIG at one point a few weeks ago. Maybe it is caching, but that's a pretty damn big cache lol.