Firefox 2 Memory Usage

[none_needed]

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.

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[Kushan]

I'm at about 100Mb as well, just with neowin open. But I never close firefox completely.

[primexx]

[jakkyl]

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.

[Nighthawk-F117]

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.

[ThePitt]

50MB with two tabs... I hate firefox. With opera, the same pages uses only 9

[ViperAFK]

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

[Salgoth]

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.

[Mr. Gibs]

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

[HoochieMamma]

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?

[canuckerfan]

^probably because of leaky extensions.

my average is around 50 -70. never crosses 80, though.

[Kola]

^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.

[Amano]

It's using 45 MB here, 4 tabs running for neowin + different websites.

[CPressland]

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!

[Tarzan]

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?

[Mr. Gibs]

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.

[sundayx Veteran]

8tabs, ~100mb... terrible

[psyko_x]

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.

[webeagle12]

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:

[The2]

10 extensions...

2 themes installed

a few tabs with video

TOTAL = 54mb

[Nashy]

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

[temur]

83mb with 6 tabs open... All either displaying mess forums + neowin forums.

[psyko_x]

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.

[Huleboeren]

65mb at 5 tabs

[instant.human]

omg, just neowin open, 111mb! :(

5 tabs: 114.