firefox memory consumption


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i was looking at task manager when i noticed firefox 1.0.3 was using 115mb of memory! its not a huge issue, but why does it use so much? i just have neowin on one tab and gooogle on another.

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I think I heard someone on neowin saying that firefox has a memory leak that hasn't been fixed for ages.

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i was looking at task manager when i noticed firefox 1.0.3 was using 115mb of memory! its not a huge issue, but why does it use so much? i just have neowin on one tab and gooogle on another.

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Minimize the browser and see the memory consumption drop down drastically.

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Minimize the browser and see the memory consumption drop down drastically.

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yeah....but why??? why does firefox use so much memory? mine uses around 33mb..

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From what I can gather, Googling around, it does this by design; ie. it maintains a memory cache but will release memory if required by other applications. In other words, don't worry about it, it won't hog the memory if its needed by something else.

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unless your memory is super low, it wouldnt be much of a problem.

eg, a guy who has 1 gb of ram and complains of the FFx memory.

now thats a little too much now wouldnt it.. :yes:

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Minimize the browser and see the memory consumption drop down drastically.

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Yeah I had 80MB just with two Windows, I've minized (3MB) and restored them both and I've ended with 20MB taken.

I don't care anyway, I'm always happy to find something that can help me fill my 2GB of ram. ;)

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Minimize the browser and see the memory consumption drop down drastically.

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No! Minimizing an application just forces Windows to flush a bunch of pages to disk, which will require it to read those pages from disk to memory when require. This will cause a slow-down.

From what I can gather, Googling around, it does this by design; ie. it maintains a memory cache but will release memory if required by other applications.  In other words, don't worry about it, it won't hog the memory if its needed by something else.

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No, it's not really by design. As supernova said, it's a well known memory leak that will not be fixed until 1.1.

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I upgraded to 1.0.4 and i'm seeing some major slowdown compared to 1.0.3

is anyone else seeing that?

I've also had FF crash a bunch of times.

just wondering

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Yeah I had 80MB just with two Windows, I've minized (3MB) and restored them both and I've ended with 20MB taken.

I don't care anyway, I'm always happy to find something that can help me fill my 2GB of  ram. ;)

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Yeah, to you it's not an issue, but for me it is. At home I only have 128 of RAM, and Firefox tends to crash whenever I opne too many tabs. However, I don't conplain that much. It's a great browser with great features. The ideal would be for it to use less memory.

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I upgraded to 1.0.4 and i'm seeing some major slowdown compared to 1.0.3

is anyone else seeing that?

I've also had FF crash a bunch of times.

just wondering

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nope, things should have sped up because a dhtml regression was fixed...you probably have some extensions slowing it down like TBE or some other tab extension

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nope, things should have sped up because a dhtml regression was fixed...you probably have some extensions slowing it down like TBE or some other tab extension

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yeah i do have a bunch of extensions

maybe thats it

i'll uninstall them

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