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March 12th, 2008
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Godlike!
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Firefox 3 memory usage write up
Putting it here even though it's a cross platform browser as windows is it's largest userbase  Enjoy! |
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March 12th, 2008
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F@H - Is it in you?
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Re: Firefox 3 memory usage write up
Sweet
I will be keen to see if this trend continues once extensions are updated for FF3 or if they will tighten restrictions on what extensions can use wrt resources. My biggest gripe about FF has always been memory usage. |
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March 13th, 2008
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Re: Firefox 3 memory usage write up
Great find, cookies inbound. I love that they have put energy into this... I always got the impression nobody besides users cared. :-\
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March 13th, 2008
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Glaanies script monkey
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Re: Firefox 3 memory usage write up
Originally Posted by Sazar
I constantly here this yet I've used Firefox for years since the Phoenix days on numerous platforms and have never noticed a memory issue. I don't care what task manager syas, but have you ever actually noticed a performance hit? Do you load tons of extensions? 
I am currently on FreeBSD, I've had firefox open for about 3 hours and it is reported as using 120MB of memory. Code:
last pid: 64523; load averages: 0.13, 0.09, 0.12 up 1+06:50:18 19:23:41 83 processes: 1 running, 82 sleeping CPU states: % user, % nice, % system, % interrupt, % idle Mem: 328M Active, 1082M Inact, 204M Wired, 11M Cache, 112M Buf, 367M Free Swap: 2047M Total, 2047M Free PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND 24586 root 1 96 0 85940K 68552K select 0 7:28 0.05% Xorg 25108 joe 1 96 0 31816K 16364K select 0 8:06 0.00% gkrellm 56702 joe 7 96 0 120M 83848K ucond 0 1:31 0.00% firefox-bin 942 root 1 96 0 4520K 1348K select 0 0:40 0.00% hald-addon- 940 root 1 96 0 4520K 1348K select 1 0:37 0.00% hald-addon- 24652 joe 1 96 0 17376K 11056K select 0 0:26 0.00% metacity 24703 joe 1 96 0 44984K 16196K select 1 0:24 0.00% mixer_apple 56827 joe 2 -8 0 60440K 21296K piperd 0 0:21 0.00% gnome-termi 24662 joe 1 96 0 75156K 35636K select 1 0:15 0.00% nautilus 921 haldaemon 1 96 0 6392K 3728K select 1 0:14 0.00% hald 24691 joe 1 96 0 44572K 16608K select 0 0:10 0.00% wnck-applet 24657 joe 1 96 0 5028K 2460K select 1 0:10 0.00% gam_server 24655 joe 1 96 0 59584K 25048K select 1 0:06 0.00% gnome-panel 810 messagebus 1 96 0 3260K 1564K select 1 0:03 0.00% dbus-daemon 24681 joe 1 96 0 6004K 3264K select 0 0:03 0.00% xscreensave 24673 joe 1 96 0 20620K 10552K select 0 0:03 0.00% gnome-volum |
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March 13th, 2008
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Re: Firefox 3 memory usage write up
Originally Posted by j79zlr
well j79, you make a great point, what task manager reports as being used is just memory that's claimed, much of that is just claimed, released as needed
I've never been a firefox fan but one thing, I really never noticed a computer slow down with it how many windows can you open with firefox? I can usually open between 32 and 40 in internet explorer |
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March 13th, 2008
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Glaanies script monkey
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Re: Firefox 3 memory usage write up
Maybe thats the thing, I usually have between 5 & 10 tabs open, a couple forums and a stock ticker just to make sure that I am losing the requisite amount of money on the day.
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March 13th, 2008
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Godlike!
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Re: Firefox 3 memory usage write up
I frequently and up with nothing but tab icons when at work. WHile XP's task manager is inaccurate, it reports firefox as being close to 900MB, the system is sluggish and firefox hangs for 5-10 seconds when scrolling or changing tab.
Maybe those that don't see issues aren't using it very heavily. |
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March 13th, 2008
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Re: Firefox 3 memory usage write up
Could this also be a case of using AJAX as these some heavy AJAX sites will use a lot of bandwidth for modules especially if they don't load quite right? This could be a problem especially if a lot of tabs are used in the browser itself. I have noticed that this does seem to affect other browsers as well, namely Opera which is my preferred browser.
This seems to happen with the increased usage of tabs and the amount of tabs that are open. Strangely enough I have a pretty good record with an IE shell Maxthon. just something to consider. |
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March 13th, 2008
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I may actually be insane.
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Re: Firefox 3 memory usage write up
Always good to see, I don't think I've personally ever had FireFox be so bogged down that it's been unresponsive in any way and I've pretty much always god a fair few tabs open.
I'll be interested in seeing if the OS X build turns out anywhere near as fast as it's Windows and Linux counterparts though. |
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