FIREFIX, WHY DO YOU NEED A QUARTER OF A GIG!

something_totally_different · 10 Oct 2008 at 16:52

ok, so i use FF, and i love it. but its memory handling is frankly crappy. when i use a dozen or so tabs, i understand it gobbling ram... LOTS of ram. but WHY WHY WHY WONT IT GIVE IT ME BACK WHEN I CLOSE THE TABS :mad:

i mean its down to one window, no tabs, and a quarter of a gig of ram used. they should have sorted this crap by now.

tolien · 10 Oct 2008 at 16:53

You're doing something wrong somewhere if it's using that much...

Noel Gallagher · 10 Oct 2008 at 16:53

Maybe your cache needs to be cleaned? :S

Try CCLeaner!

something_totally_different · 10 Oct 2008 at 16:58

New install of VISTA. only two weeks old. its always done it, XP, vista, seems once you open a certain number of tabs (i work in admin and finance, use twenty to thirty at a time) it doesnt give you the memory back upon close.

barnettgs · 10 Oct 2008 at 17:03

Maybe some firefox extensions or add-on such as Java could have caused this? Worth disabling all extensions and see if it is improved.

tolien · 10 Oct 2008 at 17:21

Fresh install of Firefox, no extensions, no cruft from an old profile? Latest stable version? Tried safe mode?

Greenlizard0 · 10 Oct 2008 at 17:35

I find that Opera does this as well. I've let it run upto an entire GB before and still nothing happened when I closed the tabs down.

mrbios · 10 Oct 2008 at 17:42

firefox for me is currently using 33mb ram with 4 tabs open, definately something wrong with yours somewhere

check what addons your using
what additonal programs like flash, shockwave, java etc have you installed?
what version of firefox is it?

something_totally_different · 10 Oct 2008 at 18:31

tolien said:
Fresh install of Firefox, no extensions, no cruft from an old profile? Latest stable version? Tried safe mode?

FFv 3.03 no addons. havent had chance. no old profiles used.

mrbios said:
firefox for me is currently using 33mb ram with 4 tabs open, definately something wrong with yours somewhere

check what addons your using
what additonal programs like flash, shockwave, java etc have you installed?
what version of firefox is it?

i have java and what ever player it is that lets me use youtube occasionally but thats it. FF v 3.03

mrbios · 10 Oct 2008 at 18:35

try removing java (think its flash player that youtube uses) i sometimes find botched java installs where it uses 100s of mb of ram

Other than that....i have no idea

Amnesia · 10 Oct 2008 at 18:48

it does it for me aswell when i got tonnes of porn links open

madman045 · 10 Oct 2008 at 18:56

FF 3.0.3 - 17 tabs open, 105mb
Addons:
British English Dictionary
Exif Viewer
Flashgot
IE Tab

So I dont know if that's normal or what, but FF runs smooth

Bry · 10 Oct 2008 at 19:02

FF 3.0.3 - 38 tabs 273mb and 15 addons