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Normally I'd suggest Flock as that's my main browser now. But since it isn't light, I'd have to agree that K-Meleon is the way to go (Y)

I'm posting this in it right now in fact. I can't wait for the CCF version to come out! K-Meleon is light, fast, looks pretty decent, and best of all, works with Ad-Muncher! :p

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I must add this:

I currently have 11 tabs open in K-Meleon...and it's using 6,838kb of memory. That's it. Minimized it's using 1,221kb. Yeah, beat that any other browser! :p

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I did a small test for my self but i went on farnborough.com (airshow site)

IE = 60MB used

Firefox = 150-170mb used :blush: and it nearly crashed my pc. :shiftyninja:

Okie did a picture of task manger. I had neowin open and the farnborough site.

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I did a small test for my self but i went on farnborough.com (airshow site)

IE = 60MB used

Firefox = 150-170mb used :blush: and it nearly crashed my pc. :shiftyninja:

memory management in firefox 2.0 will be a lot better than 1.5

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I did a small test for my self but i went on farnborough.com (airshow site)

IE = 60MB used

Firefox = 150-170mb used :blush: and it nearly crashed my pc. :shiftyninja:

Okie did a picture of task manger. I had neowin open and the farnborough site.

I did the same test as you (opened Neowin in one tab, opened that Farnborough site in another) in Firefox 1.5 and I got this:

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I guess I must be one of the lucky ones, as I never had any major memory problems with Firefox - despite that it's not my everyday browser.

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Orange, that could be caused by an extension. Since you two are reporting such a big difference in memory used, that's probably what it is.

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I have Firefox 1.5.0.4 on my mom's P3 notebook (I'm using it now). It runs on top of Windows XP and this box only has 128MB RAM. It seems fine. There are virtually no extensions installed.

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For a lightweight browser, I'd go with either K-Meleon, or K-Ninja (which is based on K-Meleon).

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Orange, that could be caused by an extension. Since you two are reporting such a big difference in memory used, that's probably what it is.

Just thought of that now. I have 6 extensions installed :blush:

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just opened 2 tabs in Firefox and Opera then minimized them and you can see the results

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Just thought of that now. I have 6 extensions installed :blush:

:huh:

I did another test. Firefox has just page open - my home page (www.netvibes.com), and right now it's taking up 26 MB of memory with nine extensions:

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This must clearly be a hardware related issue or some hidden setting is turned on in my profile.

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i'm using swiftfox on linux which has a very nice startup time compared to regular firefox although i think its only availible on linux, 10 extensions 10 tabs open with 2% cpu and 95mb ram usage, works for me

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This is ridiculous.

4 Tabs open on Firefox - 150,000 K

4 Tabs open on K-Meleon - 36,000 K

:|

With 5 Neowin tabs open in Maxthon I'm at 31k.

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You smoke crack right? :rofl:

My experience is that Opera uses the same memory as Firefox (or close enough not to matter).

This is because I compare Opera with no extensions to Firefox with few (or no) extensions. People that install Fasterfox and all of that other junk just bog down their installations of Firefox.

Even when you uninstall Fasterfox, I don't think your system goes back to normal.

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