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Use Linux! Right now, Firefox 3 is only using 71.2 MB. Everything on Linux seems to use a lot less ram, according to the task manager

Edit: On Windows I'm pretty sure it usually used at least 200 MB. That's why I could never leave it running in the background.

Try clearing out data in your profile. Tools > Clear Private Data
or just create a whole new profile / delete files for the current profile. I'm having issues with it too; after using firefox for a while it will stop loading new pages until I restart. BUT, it works fine under a different user on Windows.

I don't have that problem... then again I have a nice 2gb so I won't feel much.

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Originally posted by MenthiX

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Originally posted by mattisdada
Web browsers should not use more then 100k of memory while fewing a few websites at a time.
I know in Linux FF3 uses 300k of memory when viewing 3 websites at one time.

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Originally posted by NanaFreak
i only get from 50k to 100k used

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The dot in Window's task manager on the memory size doesn't indicate decimals. Instead of 50, 100 and 300k you mean 50000, 100000 and 300000k. As in ~50, ~100 and ~300megabyte.

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All the cool kids have commas not periods. Also 30k = 30,000, a k usually stands for a thousand(which you probably know) but that's probably the sense he was using it in, if not then, newb

Still... 300k != 300000k. And 300k of ks is just a very silly way of saying it .

bah, shush menthi ]=

A browser shouldn't use more than 100Kb when viewing a page????????????

What kind of extremely slow browser would that be? An average image on the web is already over 100K...

Anyways, memory usage mostly depends on what page you're viewing. If it contains a lot of images, dynamic stuff, etc it uses more memory.

Be happy that your browser uses more memory than before. It means it can keep more stuff in memory and that means it will be faster.

Also, the Windows Task Manager is the last place you should look at to see how much memory a program actually uses.

(not taking in account memory leaks of course)

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
A browser shouldn't use more than 100Kb when viewing a page????????????

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It uses 100,000K according to the Task Manager, which is about 100 megabytes.

[qoute]Anyways, memory usage mostly depends on what page you're viewing. If it contains a lot of images, dynamic stuff, etc it uses more memory.

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Yep, I know about that.

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Be happy that your browser uses more memory than before. It means it can keep more stuff in memory and that means it will be faster.

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I'm not so sure there's anything to be happy about when I'm trying to browse deviantART or something, and WMP suddenly freaks out because there's not enough memory left...

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Also, the Windows Task Manager is the last place you should look at to see how much memory a program actually uses.

(not taking in account memory leaks of course)

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Yes, I've thought about that. What would you suggest then?

Anyway, I'm back on Firefox 2 until I can get a decent amount of RAM.

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Originally posted by ryxdp

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Originally posted by CookieRevised
A browser shouldn't use more than 100Kb when viewing a page????????????

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It uses 100,000K according to the Task Manager, which is about 100 megabytes.

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Was replying to:

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Originally posted by mattisdada
Web browsers should not use more then 100k of memory while fewing a few websites at a time.
I know in Linux FF3 uses 300k of memory when viewing 3 websites at one time. This is abnormally LARGE, i hope the Windows Version isnt so memory hungry.

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