[DUG] Offtopic - but....

[Jeremy Coulter]

Yes I thought aboutt eh flash stuff, but even when I have pages open with no
flash it uses a lot of ram too.......I have already got rid of chrome for
the same reasons. Figured it was not worth having 2 memory hungry browsers
installed :-)

Jeremy


On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:23 PM, John Bird <johnkbird at paradise.net.nz>wrote:

>  Firefox does use more ram over time - restart it and you will find the
> memory use dives.   Its not all Firefox's fault - some is memory leaks, but
> most is from Flash and other plugins, so other browsers will do the same.
>
> Hint later versions are usually better at using less memory! So check your
> version
>
> Each version gets tighter on memory usage, for instance I have had 67 tabs
> open for about a day and Firefox is using 380MB memory.  I am running the
> 3.7 nightly alpha build too (ie the latest bleeding edge) - I have been
> following issues like this on the Firefox development newsgroup.
>
> Chrome also can have similar issues, largely as it uses separate processes
> for each tab and this increases memory usage too.
>
> John
>
> I know thi sis offtopic, but does anyone know WHY FireFox consumse SO MUCH
> RAM ??
>
> I have 8 tabs open and its usign over 400MB !!  Its complete madness !  I
> have started going off Firefox lately. On ym Vista 64bit install at home, I
> cant do an F5 to refresh, I have to do a CTRL+F5 .....  grrr
>
>
> Jeremy
>
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