Pox Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoochieMamma Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 I think I heard someone on neowin saying that firefox has a memory leak that hasn't been fixed for ages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger_my_passion Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 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. 585908003[/snapback] Minimize the browser and see the memory consumption drop down drastically. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ultimate99 Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 Minimize the browser and see the memory consumption drop down drastically. 585908157[/snapback] yeah....but why??? why does firefox use so much memory? mine uses around 33mb.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyberfrem Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lan88 Posted May 12, 2005 Share Posted May 12, 2005 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: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JMA_PN Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 Minimize the browser and see the memory consumption drop down drastically. 585908157[/snapback] 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. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernova_00 Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 there have been many memory leak bugs fixed on the trunk that will be in 1.1. you guys will notice a considerable difference Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vcv Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 Minimize the browser and see the memory consumption drop down drastically. 585908157[/snapback] 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. 585908177[/snapback] 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 ^^ when can we get this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernova_00 Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 september probably...dev release will be out in a few days but shouldnt be used by the general public Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jase Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 thanks for the info :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalslacker Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nav1 Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 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. ;) 585924846[/snapback] 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernova_00 Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 I upgraded to 1.0.4 and i'm seeing some major slowdown compared to 1.0.3is anyone else seeing that? I've also had FF crash a bunch of times. just wondering 585927085[/snapback] 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digitalslacker Posted May 16, 2005 Share Posted May 16, 2005 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 585927105[/snapback] yeah i do have a bunch of extensions maybe thats it i'll uninstall them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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