WTF is wrong with Firefox eating up memory!?

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nigel07

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Firefox with only 5 tabs open is eating up 108MB RAM of my laptop!?
Has anyone been experiencing similar problems? Im running version 1.5.0.6

:mad: N7
 
the more memory you have, the more it uses.... if you open up other programs that need ram than firefox will 'let go' of the ram, nothing to be worried about
 
Works for me...its stable, don't use memory like mad, it has tabs and it blocks pop-ups, web ads and stuff that make you go CRAZY!
 
vampirotoothus said:
Works for me...its stable, don't use memory like mad, it has tabs and it blocks pop-ups, web ads and stuff that make you go CRAZY!
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It doesn't handle FoxyTunes extension. So it doesn't do it for me.
Based on IE therefore shares all the vulnerabilities IE has.

:cool: N7
 
On my laptop (512M mem, 188M avaiable), firefox is currenty using 80M mem and I have 21 tabs open
 
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1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press Enter.
4. Now select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.

Now when you click the minimize button, Firefox should instantly reduce to just under 10 megs. When you restore the window again, it will be considerably less than before. It works pretty well.
 
Calico182 said:
1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press Enter.
4. Now select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.

Now when you click the minimize button, Firefox should instantly reduce to just under 10 megs. When you restore the window again, it will be considerably less than before. It works pretty well.
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I nominate this as myadsl "tip of the week"!!

thanks... my ff mem usage went from 85MB to 11MB!
 
Onepostwonder said:
What extensions are you using?

Nice 1 Calico BTW...
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Download Accelerator Plus Integration
Fetch Text URL
FoxyTunes
IE Tab
Mouse Gestures
SwitchProxy Tool
Tab Mix Plus
Wellrounded

Calico182 said:
1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press Enter.
4. Now select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.

Now when you click the minimize button, Firefox should instantly reduce to just under 10 megs. When you restore the window again, it will be considerably less than before. It works pretty well.
Click to expand...

Nice tweak!


:rolleyes: N7.1 (version upgrade)
 
Calico182 said:
1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press Enter.
4. Now select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.

Now when you click the minimize button, Firefox should instantly reduce to just under 10 megs. When you restore the window again, it will be considerably less than before. It works pretty well.
Click to expand...

Brilliant !!! Thanks Calico182.
 
IE also uses a lot of memory. The only difference is that a big part of IE is already loaded as part of the OS.
 
yay thanks for the tip :) Finally it will be smaller
 
Opera? I have 5 tabs open and it uses 56mb now out of 512.

but the thing is that as than increases, Opera uses almost nothing extra whereas FF will often get to 100mb+. Ive seen lots of reviews on this thing, opera obviously doesit better than FF, they were the first to invent tabbed browsing.

About IE being load into the system already. that is why it alwasy starts up so quick, it is a pretty nice feature. No other browser can start as fast as IE... too bad. But then again no other browser can be as bad as IE, no problem.
Okay saying that, IE7 beta 3 looks pretty nice and it is fast and alot better than IE 6.
 
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