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Memory issues with Firefox 3 by ryxdp on 07-20-2008 at 04:56 AM

Well, since I got Firefox 3, it's seemed to use up more memory than version 2. It's pushing about 100,000K browsing deviantART, and about 80,000K on bash.org (one of the simplest sites I know of). The odd thing is that right now, as I'm writing this, it's at about 55,000K. I use RAMBack on arrival to every other page now, which is obviously very inconvenient and it's started to annoy me more and more. Does anyone know why this is?

I have Windows XP Pro Service Pack 2, 512MB of RAM, 1.2GHz AMD Athlon processor. Thanks :)

RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3 by -dt- on 07-20-2008 at 04:58 AM

buy more ram and quit bitching


ram is cheap as chips atm, so you have no excuse : <

RE: RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3 by ryxdp on 07-20-2008 at 05:11 AM

quote:
Originally posted by -dt-
buy more ram and quit bitching


ram is cheap as chips atm, so you have no excuse : <

I do indeed have an excuse.

It's just too old. It uses PC133 RAM ffs :(. I've got a gig of Kingston DDR2 RAM waiting, along with an ASUS P5GC-MX which I hope to put to use sometime in the near future, when I get an actual computer.
RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3 by NanaFreak on 07-20-2008 at 06:32 AM

if 100k memory is too much, get a new computer or stop browsing the web...

RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3 by Th3rmal on 07-20-2008 at 06:50 AM

You could try going back to FF2 until you get a new computer =/

RE: RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3 by ryxdp on 07-20-2008 at 07:28 AM

quote:
Originally posted by NanaFreak
if 100k memory is too much, get a new computer or stop browsing the web...

I am in the process of getting a new computer, should be at least an E4600 with 1GB of DDR2 memory.

quote:
Originally posted by Th3rmal
You could try going back to FF2 until you get a new computer =/

Where would I get it from? Most of the sites have either updated it to 3, or are just generally dodgy.

EDIT: Thanks ddunk :P
RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3 by ddunk on 07-20-2008 at 07:37 AM

http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/

RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3 by mattisdada on 07-20-2008 at 09:57 AM

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.

RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3 by NanaFreak on 07-20-2008 at 10:45 AM

i have like 20 tabs open and i only get from 50k to 100k used =\

RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3 by Menthix on 07-20-2008 at 11:54 PM

quote:
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.
quote:
Originally posted by NanaFreak
i only get from 50k to 100k used
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.
RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3 by kotjze on 07-21-2008 at 01:26 AM

Use Linux! :D 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.

RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3 by MeEtc on 07-21-2008 at 02:01 AM

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.

RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3 by Voldemort on 07-21-2008 at 03:23 AM

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

RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3 by vaccination on 07-21-2008 at 06:38 AM

quote:
Originally posted by MenthiX
quote:
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.
quote:
Originally posted by NanaFreak
i only get from 50k to 100k used
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.
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 8-)
RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3 by Menthix on 07-21-2008 at 12:39 PM

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

RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3 by NanaFreak on 07-21-2008 at 12:48 PM

bah, shush menthi ]=

RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3 by CookieRevised on 07-21-2008 at 01:02 PM

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)

RE: RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3 by ryxdp on 07-22-2008 at 01:38 AM

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

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.

Yep, I know about that.

quote:
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.

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...

quote:
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)

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.
RE: RE: RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3 by CookieRevised on 07-22-2008 at 06:13 AM

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

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