[DUG] Offtopic - but....

[Jeremy Coulter]

Actually IE is working the best of all of them !  Restarting the FF session
did sort the memory our obivously, but it started increasing straight away.
Ah well

On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:40 PM, John Bird <johnkbird at paradise.net.nz>wrote:

>  Whatever you do don't use IE at the moment!
>
> (Some people in Google are feeling this acutely!)
>
> Did restarting Firefox drastically reduce memory use?
>
> John
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> *From:* Jeremy Coulter <jscoulter at gmail.com>
> *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List <delphi at delphi.org.nz>
> *Sent:* Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:52 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [DUG] Offtopic - but....
>
> 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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