Firefox and memory usage

Azagoth · 20 Jun 2007 at 17:53

Is anyone else experiencing major memory usage with the latest Firefox? At the moment, after 23 minutes and with two tabs open, it's using 105MB and is becoming very lethargic.

Ross1234 · 20 Jun 2007 at 17:54

firefox does use a lot

shine · 20 Jun 2007 at 17:55

Minimise it - firefox will release any memory it no longer needs.

Azagoth · 20 Jun 2007 at 17:56

Ah, never knew that. Thanks.

shaffaaf27 · 20 Jun 2007 at 21:44

shine said:
Minimise it - firefox will release any memory it no longer needs.

Didnt work for me...

i have about 20 tabs open, and its consuming about 150 MB, and when i close some, and minimise and maximise, its still at 150MB.

But me, i dont reall care, i have enough memory to combat it, and im only opening firefox, so its not being use on somthing else.

shine · 20 Jun 2007 at 21:58

shaffaaf27 said:
Didnt work for me...

i have about 20 tabs open, and its consuming about 150 MB, and when i close some, and minimise and maximise, its still at 150MB.

But me, i dont reall care, i have enough memory to combat it, and im only opening firefox, so its not being use on somthing else.

What version are you using? In some of the 1.5.x branch there was a bug and it didn't work. It is fixed in all the 2.x versions.

shaffaaf27 · 20 Jun 2007 at 23:13

shine said:
What version are you using? In some of the 1.5.x branch there was a bug and it didn't work. It is fixed in all the 2.x versions.

Ahh... im still running 1.5.0.12

Oh well no worries, im used to it, so i dont mind.

shine · 20 Jun 2007 at 23:18

shaffaaf27 said:
Ahh... im still running 1.5.0.12

Oh well no worries, im used to it, so i dont mind.

There is an add on which will fix it, you can download it here - search for FireFox 1.5 Memory Optimiser.

Craig321 · 20 Jun 2007 at 23:18

Firefox has always taken lots of memory for me. Doesn't both me though, I never have it open e.g. in game.

Azagoth · 21 Jun 2007 at 02:24

Same here, I have 2GB of decent RAM, Mushkin, but it's just weird how Firefox takes up so much. Perhaps it might also be down to what Extensions/themes are installed too.

Gamewise, I can easily run Guild Wars and Firefox but other, more intensive, games don't seem to like it.

Teaf · 21 Jun 2007 at 08:04

Still takes too much RAM in my opinion, even if it is a superb browser. Got it open at the moment with 2 tabs, one being OcUK and it's consuming 72MB of RAM, which is horrendous.

Steedie · 21 Jun 2007 at 08:59

People must know about this surely?

HERE

Use it on my FF installation, limits it to whatever amount you set

Craigius · 21 Jun 2007 at 12:22

Steedie said:
People must know about this surely?

HERE

Use it on my FF installation, limits it to whatever amount you set

Thanks will have a look at this one when i get home.

IAmATeaf · 21 Jun 2007 at 14:12

Craigius said:
Thanks will have a look at this one when i get home.

Don't bother the general consensus is it doesn't work unless you change another entry to false in which case it starts thrashing pages to the HD.

Steedie · 21 Jun 2007 at 14:47

IAmATeaf said:
Don't bother the general consensus is it doesn't work unless you change another entry to false in which case it starts thrashing pages to the HD.

Worked fine for me

MarcLister · 21 Jun 2007 at 15:03

Steedie said:
Worked fine for me

Same for me. Its the first thing I do to Firefox and Thunderbird when I install them.

Craigius · 21 Jun 2007 at 16:59

IAmATeaf said:
Don't bother the general consensus is it doesn't work unless you change another entry to false in which case it starts thrashing pages to the HD.

Really so is there a fix for this then or will i have to live with Firefox taking up a ram?