deerhunter Posted March 23, 2007 Share Posted March 23, 2007 I compared the memory usage of Firefox with Opera by opening the same websites for both. Interestingly Firefox memory usage is at least 50% more than that of Opera. Is there a memory manager for Firefox? -------------------- Free Software Downloads Email Notifier with auto-login for Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quillz Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 The "memory leak" of Firefox is a feature. It's the way that Firefox caches pages. Opera is able to do the same caching as Firefox with much less memory. I don't know why this is, but yeah... Firefox is a bit of a hog when it comes to resource usage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted March 24, 2007 Veteran Share Posted March 24, 2007 Firefox retains memory it's not using as kinda a cache, which isn't a bad thing (speeds it up) can enable the trim_on_minimize so you can have a slower firefox and less memory usage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primexx Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 people keep using the "it's a feature" excuse. Yes the instant fwd back does use mem, but not THAT much. Firefox has many memory leak problems and they're being fixed bit by bit in each successive version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j.r.l. Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 I think it's fairly good at what it does... doesn't slow my PC down one tad bit, and I do a lot of multitasking. Most of the time I have around 20 tabs open. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linx05 Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 The "memory leak" of Firefox is a feature. It's the way that Firefox caches pages. Opera is able to do the same caching as Firefox with much less memory. I don't know why this is, but yeah... Firefox is a bit of a hog when it comes to resource usage. Hahaha. Ever thought of becoming a politician? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NienorGT Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 Yes it's resources hungry, no it's not "faster" than Opera.... Theres no memory leak but some extensions may have memory leaks, the cache feature use lot of RAM sure, you can disable it but it may slow down browsing speeds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin- Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 I just close Firefox from time to time. I've had Firefox jump up above 200MB's before. Right now it's sitting at just under 90MBs. Firefox is more unstable than any Internet Explorer version I've ever used though. The good thing is it can restore your session if you've written a nice long post right before it crashes. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tao muon Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 "The 'memory leak' of Firefox is a feature." "Yes it's resources hungry...." "Firefox retains memory it's not using as kinda a cache, which isn't a bad thing (speeds it up)" At what point does someone realize the hypocracy of what one says? Vista uses memory and it's a bad thing. How can one promote the excess memory usage of a program yet condemn memory usage of an OS? I agree with linx05. Firefox promoters may do well as politicians. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted March 24, 2007 Veteran Share Posted March 24, 2007 I'd rather the OS use all the memory, i want it 100% used all the time, no hypocrisy on my part. And the large memory usage isn't a leak, if it was a leak Firefox wouldn't be able to free it (i can get Firefox down to 6MB of memory usage, if the 150MB or so of memory usage was a leak that wouldn't be possible) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoochieMamma Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 I'd rather the OS use all the memory, i want it 100% used all the time, no hypocrisy on my part. I want mine to use a little as possible so that very resource intensive applications can start up and run faster/better without having to put all the contents from the RAM to the HDD (taking up time in the process). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Decryptor Veteran Posted March 24, 2007 Veteran Share Posted March 24, 2007 Well, i didn't exactly mean that, although it sure sounds like it in hindsight. At the moment i have around 500MB of my ram not being used, but it's also showing a bit of pagefile usage, why is it even using the pagefile at all if i have half my physical memory unused? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m1x4h Posted March 24, 2007 Share Posted March 24, 2007 i want everything to use as little as possible, and save my memory usage for my apps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tes1234 Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Well i am using opera and FF and have opened this page and opera is using like 19 MB with 0% CPU and FF is using 2 - 5% CPU + 88 MB memory.. I just opened IE and it is using 18 MB with 1 - 2% CPU.. Now if i can jut file google toolbar and informenter for Opera FF is history.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matty13 Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Yes it does use up resources it even makes my UI lag if i move a window "OVER" firefox then it like lags behind the window if you know what i mean like i move it it lags behind a little bit. but not over firefox then it doesn't and i multitask ALOT! I got 1.00GB Ram, 3.06Ghz HT P4, 5200 GFX Card. April 9th im ordering a Dual Core 2 Duo 3.0ghz, 7900 GFX Nvidia Card, 2.00GB Ram, its time i upgraded seen as my pc graphics, the processor is getting on abit now and i had my pc for quite a while now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duntkno Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 firefox is perfect. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoXY Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Firefox is a bit heavy, it usually runs up to around 50MB on my system. But its speedy and doesn't really slow my system down. So no complaints from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nXqd Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 firefox is perfect. Nothing is perfect guy :) nXqd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Digital.K Posted March 31, 2007 Share Posted March 31, 2007 Unused memory is basically wasted memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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