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O.P. Memory issues with Firefox 3
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 :)
07-20-2008 04:56 AM
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RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3
buy more ram and quit bitching


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O.P. RE: RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3
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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.

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RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3
if 100k memory is too much, get a new computer or stop browsing the web...
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RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3
You could try going back to FF2 until you get a new computer =/
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O.P. RE: RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3
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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.

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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

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RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/
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RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3
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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i have like 20 tabs open and i only get from 50k to 100k used =\
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RE: Memory issues with Firefox 3
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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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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.
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