AndrewNP Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 i open a 2nd tab and it freaks out...it spiked to that and i set to low priority so i had a chance to restart...has happened like 3 or 4 times before..but usually not this bad. anyone know what is wrong?...or can anyone recommend a new browser</3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruciz Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 do you have the latest update of firefox? I would check for a nightly build or final update. Thats eating a lot of ram too. I got 4 tabs and using 53MB ram. A lot of people like opera, and 8.5 is free appearently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewNP Posted September 21, 2005 Author Share Posted September 21, 2005 do you have the latest update of firefox? I would check for a nightly build or final update. Thats eating a lot of ram too. I got 4 tabs and using 53MB ram. A lot of people like opera, and 8.5 is free appearently. 586555523[/snapback] i am not into the deep firefox stuff, more just download, customize a bit and use. care to link me to the things you talked about?..and i have used opera..it is nice...not sure to set it in as my permanent browser yet though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pox Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 apparently some versions of firefox have memory leaks... thought that was only mac tho. 0_o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambience Posted September 21, 2005 Share Posted September 21, 2005 Yea, I have uncountable tabs open right now (they extend beyond the screen) and it's sitting at 75mb. They should really fix this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDog Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 My firefox seems to have always done this - as I browse the memory useage slowly creeps up. I wasn't sure if this was a memory leak or if it had anything to do with the fast connection, fast machine settings I put into my user.js settings file... user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true); user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true); user_pref("network.http.pipelining.maxrequests", 8); user_pref("content.notify.backoffcount", 5); user_pref("plugin.expose_full_path", true); user_pref("ui.submenuDelay", 0); user_pref("content.interrupt.parsing", true); user_pref("content.max.tokenizing.time", 2250000); user_pref("content.notify.interval", 750000); user_pref("content.notify.ontimer", true); user_pref("content.switch.threshold", 750000); user_pref("nglayout.initialpaint.delay", 0); user_pref("network.http.max-connections", 48); user_pref("network.http.max-connections-per-server", 16); user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-proxy", 16); user_pref("network.http.max-persistent-connections-per-server", 8); user_pref("browser.cache.memory.capacity", 65536); right now it's using 123megs but I've had it hit over 250megs - obviously, closing firefox and loading it up again sorts that out and to be honest, I've not noticed any performance loss on my machine for it. It just looks bad in the process list is all :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimReeper Posted September 22, 2005 Share Posted September 22, 2005 Mine usually only uses max 5Mb of memory except for this one time I had in excess of 30+ tabs open and it completley ****ted itself and it was using 120Mb of memory. I was like :o Damn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trigger_my_passion Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 am using Deer Park Alpha2 w/ about 20 extensions. But I am not bothered about the high memory usage as this comp has 2 GB RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangbang023 Veteran Posted September 24, 2005 Veteran Share Posted September 24, 2005 It's a known problem with Firefox. It's a hog and a half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts