Firefox

[Rushnak]

Hello,

I've noticed when I save alot of pictures from the web, (anywhere from 10 - 30 pictures). Firefox's memory usage goes up quite a bit, this has been going on for quite some time. I just haven't been bothered to post a thread about it, if this has been addressed before, I apoligise.

That's what It's at after I've saved around 20 pictures, doesn't it seem oddly ridiculous that it should use that much memory? I'm having to use IE recently when saving alot of pictures, purely because Firefox is bloody slow while doing so. And it just chews my memory, and my CPU for that matter. Is this happening to anyone else, I'm using the latest Firefox (1.0 Official). Don't get me wrong, I love firefox. I've been using it for ages, just this little nick-nack it's just really annoying.

[Harsh!]

Firefox's memory usage sux!!!

Ive got 2GB of ram, and Fx uses a hundreds of MBs(200-400) with 6-8 tabs open

[insanekiwi]

it doest use hundreds of MB. it uses around 60mb at max. wh ocares if you have 512mb+ ? just minimize firefox so it drops downto 3mb and open it again. jeez :rolleyes:

[Daninku]

Yup, sometimes it uses that much yes, infact recently I am using Maxthon more than Firefox just because Maxthon uses much less resources than FF. Still like it though ;)

[drgrudge]

When one window (one tab for opera, maxthon and no tab for FF):

[shuangyefei]

about 50M here.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

I got 160 something MB while browsing deviantart.

The problem is that firefox doesnt write out it's cache it stores in memory often enough, so it's sort of like a memory leak. You can fix it by doing what insanekiwi said, or by doing this.

open about:config

create a new value (or edit it if it exists) called browser.cache.memory.capacity of type integer

Set it to 16000

restart the browser

now, as soon as firefoxes internal cache hits 16MB, it writes it out to disk.

Edit: after doing that, with 3 tabs open, my memory usage is 50MB

[digitalfaze]

it doest use hundreds of MB. it uses around 60mb at max. wh ocares if you have 512mb+ ? just minimize firefox so it drops downto 3mb and open it again. jeez :rolleyes:

585377701[/snapback]

Yeah mine is the same. Max i have seen it is 64mb. And yeah if you just minimize it it goes away. To easy

[Harsh!]

it doest use hundreds of MB. it uses around 60mb at max. wh ocares if you have 512mb+ ? just minimize firefox so it drops downto 3mb and open it again. jeez :rolleyes:

585377701[/snapback]

It does use hundreds of Megs.....And I seriously advise people to treat your advice\comments as of someone who doesnt "know it all" as much as youd like them to think so

And if it was as stable as everyone would like to think, I shouldnt have to minimise it to free up the memory usage.. :rofl:

@ The_Decryptor

Gonna try your advice and see what happens...

[Y2Stu]

just because it has a memory leak dosn't mean its not stable

[gaurav]

128 MB Ram, uses 25MB, and i'm sick of that.... :(

[Harsh!]

After following The_Decryptors advice i got a bit of a drop in memory usage,nothing significant though.

Gone back to Maxthon....6 Tabs open browsing ThemeXP, deviantart,Wincustomise,GFXOasis, ShareLive! just to name a few and my memory usage is between 15MB & 22MB tops...

Go figure!!!

[huggybear102]

I did that abou:config fix about two weeks ago, now it freezes up for like 10 seconds if I have two or more windows open. Still will deal with that over IE though.