When did firefox get so big?!

Amleto · 13 Mar 2006 at 01:06

My current flavour of firefox

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Always takes up a fair amount of memory, and is currently on 93 560K :eek:

Is it just me or is there a problem somewhere?

Dinomania · 13 Mar 2006 at 01:09

Yeah mine balloons occasionally like that too. Often have to restart it, big pain.

Beansprout · 13 Mar 2006 at 01:20

SessionSaver to the rescue!

Amleto · 13 Mar 2006 at 01:22

Restarted, opened 6 tabs and it's back to 50MB straight away :/

Roll-on the next release.

Amleto · 13 Mar 2006 at 01:23

Beansprout said:
SessionSaver to the rescue!

Not sure that that's what I need :confused:

Beansprout · 13 Mar 2006 at 01:27

To be fair, I opened 5 tabs in IE7 and it's at 62Mb....this setting may also be a useful thing to adjust

Sessionsaver will let you close FF then re-open it with all your tabs,etc intact. Very handy, especially if like mine your FF install decides it wants to eat RAM and CPU

DarkShadow · 13 Mar 2006 at 01:40

Beansprout said:
To be fair, I opened 5 tabs in IE7 and it's at 62Mb....this setting may also be a useful thing to adjust

Sessionsaver will let you close FF then re-open it with all your tabs,etc intact. Very handy, especially if like mine your FF install decides it wants to eat RAM and CPU

Sessionsaver can be very unhandy at the wrong times.

Scenario: A young boy is browsing something he shouldn't be, family member walks in room wanting to use computer, the young buy hits reboot and thinks to himself everything is all good till sessionsaver brings up the previous session

BoomAM · 13 Mar 2006 at 02:27

Have you tryed minimising firefox for a few mins?
Opera sometimes has a similar problem where mem/cpu usage goes sky high, minimising it for a few mins returns it to normal for some reason.

Greenlizard0 · 13 Mar 2006 at 08:07

BoomAM said:
Have you tryed minimising firefox for a few mins?
Opera sometimes has a similar problem where mem/cpu usage goes sky high, minimising it for a few mins returns it to normal for some reason.

That's right? Euck I uninstalled firefox for this very problem, looks like I may have been too hasty!

Clarkey · 13 Mar 2006 at 09:27

93MB? thats nothing, ive seen mine bloated all the way out to 500+MB before. Its not usually a problem though so I dont care.