I am done with Firefox

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Okay there, I said it. I have been running FF for years, always kept recent with updates and so on but it continues to eat my RAM. Just before I posted this from IE, it was eating 600MB on my laptop with just two tabs open. I have closed them, rebooted them, removed the addons, shyte man, done it all. Still it kills my RAM. I have used Opera and Chrome plenty but found them to be irritating and cumborsum.

I am now posting this with IE 8 and my memory usage has barely moved, even with 10 tabs open. Being an OS nutjob, I hate this post, I really do, but ya know its time when one has tried to optimize so much and it just feels a waste.

Bye bye FF, you do rock, but I wish you didn't eat my RAM so much. :(

oh, this is not a rant, this is hoping there is someone's suggestion what else I can try to oblitirate the memory leak.
 
Ya, I'm not doing much (4 tabs open) and mine is using 200MB which is pretty ridiculous....

But I like ff and my addons too much to change, tried Chrome for a while but pretty bland and the addons don't do it for me. Opera is a bit much as well.
 
FF its still the best browser for me. I found it an issue on my previous machine. But now I have plenty of ram to go round, so like copa said, happily it's no longer an issue :D

Even when it was an issue, I never thought of moving from FF.

That would be heresy!
 
14 tabs running at 330mb. Adblock is so worth it. I frankly don't know how anybody surfs without it.
 
I like FF and desperately want to move away from it for exactly the same reason, it is a total resource hog the moment you got a few tabs open. Unfortunately i have a few plugins i enjoy and not getting the same experience in other browsers [yet] , but i'll probably look into IE9 because of this.
 
I've been using FireFox for more than 7yrs (still remember a BBC writeup that go me converted) and must say that until this year, never a problem. I find it has too many issue of late on both Windows and LINUX. Have to disable most of my plugins and since I'm a PHP developer, I find it rather a pain to have to restart FF everytime I want to activate/deactivate Firebug - damn that pluging causes too many sites to hang.
 
I started out with IE and Netscape back when I was still doing tech support for MWEB in '98 (who still remembers how to configure a 28.8 modem in WIN 3.1?). Anyway, I moved to Opera briefly and then to FF for nearly a decade.

But enough was enough, and I found myself going between IE8 and FF for the first half of 2010. I eventually found myself a new home at Chrome. Somehow, I just cannot get myself to uninstall FF. I'll give FF a go again when FF4 is released next year.
 
4 tabs open and it's using 180MB. Doesn't phase me though as I have 4GB of RAM.
 
Mike Hoxbig said:
4 tabs open and it's using 180MB. Doesn't phase me though as I have 4GB of RAM.
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It becomes a problem if you're doing multiple things and want to "quickly look up something" . Typically, i would either be watching a movie/series or playing a game [like world of warcraft] . Starting up and browsing in FF while in that scenario is not pleasant, especially once you notice it chowing 200MB memory and your game is stuttering because of it.

The good thing about Chrome is, it isolates each tab into a separate process , you will literally see in task manager multiple chrome.exe processes . This makes it's a ton easier to manage and figure out which website is killing your memory. That said, Chrome can use alot of memory too, but because it is smaller multiple processes you don't notice it [i.e. 6 x 20MB processes] , but admittedly it's a ton less than Firefox.
 
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Why choose? I use Chrome as my every day browser, and Firefox as my pickup truck. There are things one can only do in Firefox due to the awesome range of plug-ins, but I use them once in a blue moon these days. I am very happy with Chrome. It's just the basics that I need, and no clutter. Awesome with multimedia, and the new PDF capabilities makes it even more awesome. We have a client where they use software that requires them to use Adobe Reader 4, and NOTHING else will work, and newer versions just screw it up. Chrome became my solution last week:-)
 
FF, 3 tabs - 223MB
plugin container - 22MB

Sometimes, I've spotted FF with 600MB being chowed with only 2 tabs...

It has gotten slower and more resource hungry in the last year and a bit.
Still... malware hasn't been an issue, password manager works better, flashgot is irreplaceable... I just wish they'd stick with the "lean and mean" approach that made FF better to begin with... maybe have a "bare bones" option???

wouldn't move back to IE... still 3 or 4 steps behind with the plugins IMO. (FTP, flashgot etc)
 
why make it so difficult? Save up for a new laptop and you don't have to worry again for the next few years?
Grep said:
Okay there, I said it. I have been running FF for years, always kept recent with updates and so on but it continues to eat my RAM. Just before I posted this from IE, it was eating 600MB on my laptop with just two tabs open. I have closed them, rebooted them, removed the addons, shyte man, done it all. Still it kills my RAM. I have used Opera and Chrome plenty but found them to be irritating and cumborsum.

I am now posting this with IE 8 and my memory usage has barely moved, even with 10 tabs open. Being an OS nutjob, I hate this post, I really do, but ya know its time when one has tried to optimize so much and it just feels a waste.

Bye bye FF, you do rock, but I wish you didn't eat my RAM so much. :(

oh, this is not a rant, this is hoping there is someone's suggestion what else I can try to oblitirate the memory leak.
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224MB with two FF windows open, with 14 tabs open altogether. I really wonder why it would be so different on various machines?
 
Does anyone ever tell Mozilla about how resource hungry FF is and your gripes? Surely that would be material to it's development. Just wondering.
 
230 MB with 5 tabs of witch 4 is MyBB tabs.

Get more RAM.. RAM is Cheap! and get a 7200RPM HDD for your notebook, it makes a HUGE difference. I'm still a bit hesitant towards SSD(reliability)
 
I'm sick and tired of finding firefox using 1.5gb of ram on my pc. Chrome and IE are fine...
 
francoislr said:
Why choose? I use Chrome as my every day browser, and Firefox as my pickup truck. There are things one can only do in Firefox due to the awesome range of plug-ins, but I use them once in a blue moon these days. I am very happy with Chrome. It's just the basics that I need, and no clutter. Awesome with multimedia, and the new PDF capabilities makes it even more awesome. We have a client where they use software that requires them to use Adobe Reader 4, and NOTHING else will work, and newer versions just screw it up. Chrome became my solution last week:-)
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Same here. Chrome is great. I usually have ~8tabs open. Every time I see something interesting, it's right click-open in new window. Or ctrl-t and google from address bar.

FF gets opened a few times a week. Some sites are unfortunately only IE compatible (WTF people, it's 2010!) so that gets occasional use too. Chrome accounts for 90% of my internet experience. You just can't beat the speed/responsiveness.

I like Google's minimalist approach to things.
 
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