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Firefox uses the most memory out of IE, Opera and Firefox but it has more extensions than other web browsers.

Opera: fastest and uses least memory, most features from plain install, customisable

Firefox: highest memory usage, has most extensions, customisable

IE: cannot customise and has only basic features

I dont wanna customise my IE - Even if i wanted to id just add BHO like IEPlus which adds session recovery, ad filtering and stuff..

I also dont want my browser full of millions of daft features or features ill never use, i just want it to load fast, browse the internet fast and work..

IE fulfils all these requirements for me.

I dont even know why i use Opera on occasion... I gotta admit its fast as lightning though... think its a throwback to when i used to use it on linux

I still use firefox, even though it caches a lot (an awful lot) and sucks up my free RAM. I just close/restart it when it does (every few days, if I have left it open without ever closing it). It would be nice if you could set an upper limit on its usage.

I have 3GB of ram so FF dont bother me much in that respect. If you dont have the ram then look elsewhere but if you do then FF is THE way to go!

I have 512MB. That's why I do my periodic purges. If I had 2G+, I don't think I would care much.

At the moment in FF, I have 8 add-ons: Get Mail Plus, Hide Menubar, Paste and Go 2, Print/Print Preview, Secure Login, TinyURL Creator, toolbarmode, and Yahoo Mail Notifier.

I use Firetune with the 'Enable performance tweaks common to all configurations' checked......I also have checked 'Optimize Firefox memory usage'. Even with 1g of memory this set-up seems to make Firefox run smoother for longer periods of time. Firefox seems a bit faster (with the add-ons). I haven't noticed any far out memory usage. At the moment I have 8 tabs open to mostly news pages and the 'My Yahoo' beta page. They've been open for about 75 mins. According to the task manager (xp pro), Firefox is at 85,730k.........then it dropped to 83,332k when I clicked the Yahoo Mail Notifier to check for new mail.

When I clicked to 'close other tabs', leaving Neowin open, usage dropped to 75,120k. Then I minimized Firefox and usage dropped to 4,176k. I haven't had any problems on my machine running firefox with this set up............. *crosses fingers*

Opera's taking up ~180MB of memory in Vista right now, which is somewhat on par for me as with Firefox. This is under 'typical' usage for me - 2 hours of browsing where i visited several graphics-heavy sites, checked gmail, forums, work-related stuff, etc. with a max of 10 tabs open.

I closed half of them and it's still using the same amount.

I do have the ram. It's just im very.. how do I say this? Picky on how much space something takes up.

What's the point?

Is there something wrong with applications using the RAM you've provided for them? What applications are allowed to use memory?

The thing about modern browsers is that they are optimized for performance, not for resource savings. Opera and Firefox both tend to keep the pages in memory in case you want to bring back the tab or window that you closed. If something else needs the memory, they will give it up. Being a resource nazi nowadays is a failing battle...

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What's the point?

Is there something wrong with applications using the RAM you've provided for them? What applications are allowed to use memory?

I don't understand why people put 1-2GB of memory in their systems, then complain when programs go and use it.

What did you buy it for, decoration?

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