I am done with Firefox

1 session, 6 tabs, 62MB mem usage. FF 3.6.13.

The most I've seen FF chow is 163MB.
 
I must admit, i am a big fan of ff, but last week i tried the latest version of chrome and have been pretty impressed. Light and fast.
 
I use minimem to control memory usage with firefox. Runs silently in the background and makes sure firefox plays nicely. To configure select firefox as the process to optimise and make sure you untick "do not optimise the foreground process" and "Do not optimise if overall ram ..."
 
I will never change from ff, firebug is the best ever I would rather just buy more ram its better
 
The_Other said:
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)
Click to expand...

I think the point of this thread is that changing to a different browser is CHEAPER than buying RAM. If that is the reasoning Mozilla is taking ["just buy more ram people, we're not going to optimize our app"] then i don't see why everyone should just accept that stance and all upgrade their hardware everytime FF updates..

PS: I got IE9 beta , also uses less resources and looks very similar to Chrome. So while Chrome is the best on resources, IE9 is flying right past FF here in that department too.
 
Slip said:
I use minimem to control memory usage with firefox. Runs silently in the background and makes sure firefox plays nicely. To configure select firefox as the process to optimise and make sure you untick "do not optimise the foreground process" and "Do not optimise if overall ram ..."
Click to expand...

Cool tool, thanks. Usage hasn't gone beyond 60MB today.
 
I must admit I never thought I'd see the day IE would 1UP Firefox. Mine is currently using 163MB with 8 tabs open. Really not a big deal so I'll stay with FF.

wayfarer said:
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.
Click to expand...

I still remember the racket those things made :D
 
Knyro said:
I must admit I never thought I'd see the day IE would 1UP Firefox. Mine is currently using 163MB with 8 tabs open. Really not a big deal so I'll stay with FF.



I still remember the racket those things made :D
Click to expand...

It will be a sound that will live with you for the rest of your days! :D

Come to think of it, I am going to look for an audio file of that sound, and make it the startup sound for FF! :D:D

4 Tabs open in FF, only MyBB, 106MB, not an issue for me.

B
 
McT said:
Does anyone ever tell Mozilla about how resource hungry FF is and your gripes?
Click to expand...
They know about the claims and have for years. Some people's firefox does go haywire, but for the most part Firefox is very memory efficient.

FF beat chrome, opera, safari etc on memory usage here by a large margin. Yesterday I ran a similar test FF vs Chrome here, again FF winning by a large (2x) margin. I should mention though that my FF isn't stock config.

People also don't realize how dynamic memory usage is. i.e. Memory usage depends on a bunch of stuff including what else is running on the PC at the time.

If you're really stressed about FF using a lot of memory then compact the sql DBs, disable history and disable the checking for attack sites.

Slip said:
I use minimem to control memory usage with firefox. Runs silently in the background and makes sure firefox plays nicely
Click to expand...
That is a bad idea for a number of reasons. Firstly its entirely redundant: When the PC runs out of RAM, it does exactly the same thing as your app i.e. sends API calls to force apps to clear memory or page it to hdd. Secondly you don't want to limit application memory print anyway. If there is free mem then its better to use it rather than paging to hdd, if not then the OS memory management will sort it out better than any API calling app can.
 
7 tabs, 210MB RAM with a bunch of add-ons. Not much if you've got 4 gigs of ram. Still cant shake ff for chrome.
 
viven said:
18??
That's a lot of pr0n...

Me:
8 tabs | 150MB | Chrome

Agree though, I can't uninstall FF just yet due to the plugins.. (DownThemAll)
Click to expand...
Hahaha... nah, I am sending off attacks in tribalwars :)
Easiest way is to multi-tab ;)
 
It all depends on garbage collection. Some types of garbage collection allows the app to use as much RAM as it wants then frees and compresses it when the OS detects that other apps need to use it. This is fine because if the RAM isn't in use why not use it? It potentially speeds the app up.

This is what is happening.

To test it run FF until it gets huge and then run a few more memory intensive apps. As available physical RAM becomes tight the garbage collection should kick in.
 
Last edited:
Opera
108MB, 1 tab.
229MB, 14 tabs

Firefox sucks sometimes! And Opera is the best browser for using HTTP/1.0 proxies - the others just don't work properly! Opera FTW!

BTW does chrome spy on you at all? Cause I definitely don't want my browser to know everything about me!
 
Last edited:
xera said:
BTW does chrome spy on you at all? Cause I definitely don't want my browser to know everything about me!
Click to expand...

I installed the beta of chrome and looking at the feedback they were sending back scared me enough not to install it again and stick with FF.

I used Fiddler2 to monitor what they were sending back, would be interesting to see if it still sends back as much.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X