none_needed Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Hey guys... whts the memory usage like for yer Firefox 2. Im like 100+ with 5 tabs open. At times by just loading MTV.com alone i get like 70+ and thts without any open tab. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kushan Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 I'm at about 100Mb as well, just with neowin open. But I never close firefox completely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primexx Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakkyl Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 I'm running Firefox 2.0 on Mac OS X (10.4.8) and it tends to use about 65-70mb of RAM at any given time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nighthawk-F117 Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Memory usage of FF2 is way too much in my opinion. When I open more than 4 tabs it slows to a crawl. 1.5 never did this to me. IE7 memory usage appears to be much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThePitt Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 50MB with two tabs... I hate firefox. With opera, the same pages uses only 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ViperAFK Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 (edited) It never goes above 80 for me even with 20 + tabs open. usually stabilizes around 60-70, 40 with few tabs open (3-4). Extentions: Adblock Plus, Downthemall, IEtab, Mouse gestures, undo closed tabs button, Videodownloader. Edited November 4, 2006 by ViperAFK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salgoth Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 FF2, 11 tabs, 10 extensions IE7, same 11 tabs, clean install I've got no complaints since I absolutely hate IEs tab handling and GUI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Gibs Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 well here are my statistics with FF2, Opera, IE7 [no extentions, no themes, and all clean installs]. Number of tabs open on each: 1 [www.neowin.net] Firefox 2 memory usage: 54mb Opera 9 memory usage: 18mb Internet Explorer 7 memory usage: 26mb Number of tabs open on each: 2 [www.neowin.net, www.shoutwire.com] Firefox 2 memory usage: 67mb Opera 9 memory usage: 25mb Internet Explorer 7 memory usage: 35mb Number of tabs open on each: 5 [www.neowin.net, www.shoutwire.com, www.winbeta.org, www.msn.com, www.microsoft.com] Firefox 2 memory usage: 89mb Opera 9 memory usage: 44mb Internet Explorer 7 memory usage: 61mb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoochieMamma Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 It never goes above 80 for me even with 20 + tabs open. usually stabilizes around 60-70, 40 with few tabs open (3-4). Extentions: Adblock Plus, Downthemall, IEtab, Mouse gestures, undo closed tabs button, Videodownloader. Yeah, same. Why do so many people have issues with huge amounts of RAM usage with so little tabs open? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckerfan Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 ^probably because of leaky extensions. my average is around 50 -70. never crosses 80, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kola Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 ^probably because of leaky extensions. my average is around 50 -70. never crosses 80, though. Note the post where he did a test with no extensions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amano Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 It's using 45 MB here, 4 tabs running for neowin + different websites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPressland Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 WTF???? What is the problem with a little memory usage? do you think your ram is going to die because it's being used for what it was designed? BAH Fools all of you if it's that much of an issue get 2GB of RAM! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarzan Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 Some still live in w9x age probably - or like looking at numbers, either minimum or maximum got to be best logic. If whatever is considered high memory usage is tied to slower browser more ram wont help. Remember Firefox scale some variables according to physical memory so numbers cant be compared directly. I doubt usage will ever get lower and also that any healthy computer, unless ancient, will have problems with that. Problem is not Firefox but Task Manager! - close it and problem goes away. Not meaning it does not matter but why not just uninstall and go for whatever give lowest numbers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Gibs Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 WTF???? What is the problem with a little memory usage? do you think your ram is going to die because it's being used for what it was designed? BAH Fools all of you if it's that much of an issue get 2GB of RAM! my desktop has 256mb ram only cuz its RDRAM and i cant be bothered to buy anymore. My laptop, on the other hand, has 2gb ddr2. I wasn't complaining, just showing that on my computer firefox takes up much more memory than opera or ie7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sundayx Veteran Posted November 4, 2006 Veteran Share Posted November 4, 2006 8tabs, ~100mb... terrible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyko_x Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 web browsers have become the biggest memory hogs ever. just opened firefox with 2 tabs and it's at 43 megs. opera is just as bad. what the hell??? when i'm using visual studio and some other things my system is already tight on memory. a web browser taking 100+megs of my memory, if i keep it on, is nuts and makes me want to punch the developers. i have 1GB of ram btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webeagle12 Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 WTF???? What is the problem with a little memory usage? do you think your ram is going to die because it's being used for what it was designed? BAH Fools all of you if it's that much of an issue get 2GB of RAM! not anybody rich as u fool :huh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The2 Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 10 extensions... 2 themes installed a few tabs with video TOTAL = 54mb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nashy Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 65mb around about. Its stupid, I'm not happy with it using so much. Its really starting to hurt having: Firefox Thunderbird Fireworks Dreamweaver Winamp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
temur Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 83mb with 6 tabs open... All either displaying mess forums + neowin forums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyko_x Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 WTF???? What is the problem with a little memory usage? do you think your ram is going to die because it's being used for what it was designed? BAH Fools all of you if it's that much of an issue get 2GB of RAM! Ummm, I'm not sure if you've noticed but this isn't a 3d modeling program. It's a web browser. You use it to download information (mostly text and some images) from a remote computer. Go back to modding your case with neon lights. I like to actually use my PC for something useful and having to use a program that uses a big chunk of my RAM just to display text (mostly) naturally ****es me off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Huleboeren Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 65mb at 5 tabs Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
instant.human Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 omg, just neowin open, 111mb! :( 5 tabs: 114. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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