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General => Akihabara => Geek Guides => Topic started by: ziggurat on October 17, 2006, 10:20:35 AM

Title: Firefox is consuming too much memory? here is a solution..
Post by: ziggurat on October 17, 2006, 10:20:35 AM

Even after at least hundreds of posts on digg.com, even after a Slashdot article there’s thousands of people out there complaining about the Firefox Memory Bug.  Lets get it straight.  It’s not a bug.  It’s part of the cache feature.  This ‘feature’ is how the pages are cached in a tabbed environment.  To improve performance when navigating (studies show that 39% of all page navigations are renavigations to pages visited less than 10 pages ago, usually using the back button), Firefox 1.5 implements a Back-Forward cache that retains the rendered document for the last five session history entries for each tab. This is a lot of data. If you have a lot of tabs, Firefox’s memory usage can climb dramatically. It’s a trade-off. What you get out of it is faster performance as you navigate the web. (http://element14.wordpress.com/2006/07/11/firefox-does-not-have-a-memory-bug-but-heres-how-you-improve-mem-usage/)

ok, i only copy paste this so firefox users can rejoice.. i'm having this too and this solution really help.. give it a try..

Title: Firefox is consuming too much memory? here is a solution..
Post by: A1 on October 17, 2006, 10:25:05 AM

Thanks for this great find. I already knew about how to load the pages faster but not about the RAM.

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Post by: chera on October 17, 2006, 01:00:07 PM

Hope this works.... Firefox consumes 700MB of RAM on my 1.5GB machine

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Post by: dorobo on February 12, 2007, 06:04:16 AM

firefox lags up my com even though its dual core

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Post by: d148lo on February 12, 2007, 09:28:54 AM

that really helps, thanks a lot

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Post by: fullyinsane on February 17, 2007, 11:22:46 AM

hm....compare to other browser engine...i prefer firefox when do the tabbing...firefox never consumes a lot of memory...never exceed 100mb of memory when i open more than 10 tabs...but when i use netscape...damn my pc can hang....use internet explorer i got errors all the time...a close box will appear to choose whether to "end now" or cancel

Title: Firefox is consuming too much memory? here is a solution..
Post by: LaJon on February 17, 2007, 01:19:06 PM

Givin' it a shot.  I've always noticed that firefox, more than anything I typically run, takes up the most memory.  Thanks for the post.

Title: Firefox is consuming too much memory? here is a solution..
Post by: `CL´™©® on March 11, 2007, 09:28:44 PM

Nice find!
I'll give this a try.
I really hope this works.
Thanks.

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Post by: LASVEGAS on March 12, 2007, 02:56:06 PM

Nice find indeed.
Trying...

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Post by: frblckstr1 on March 12, 2007, 06:30:36 PM

:ROTFLMAO: ^ Replace Firefox with IE, memory problem solved

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Post by: Masabi on March 12, 2007, 06:44:00 PM

^ or any other browser?

people forget that not only firefox and ie exist D: ?

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Post by: lopkiu on March 13, 2007, 09:21:54 PM

firefox is still ok but IE7 is even worst than firefox took alot n i mean alot of memory.

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Post by: Dronak on March 14, 2007, 01:03:02 AM

I already use the config.trim_on_minimize = true setting which makes Firefox free up some of the memory it was holding on to when you minimize it.  I'm not sure if I've done the others, but I'll check them out.  Thanks for the tip.

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Post by: StreakInTheSky on March 14, 2007, 02:28:16 AM

I looked at the memory usage of both firefox and IE(6.0 and 7.0) and there really isn't much difference that it would affect using other programs(besides some games). I find using the fasterfox extension greatly increases memory usage though.

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Post by: akito925 on March 15, 2007, 02:54:38 AM

thanks for the heads up, goes and configures firefox on all puters

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Post by: BoAayu on March 19, 2007, 08:06:08 PM

Thanks. Good find. I'll try it later tonight see how it pans out.

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Post by: makeme on April 17, 2007, 05:14:21 PM

Thanks for the tips. Much appreciated.

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Post by: kukine on August 08, 2007, 04:35:51 AM

great info, browsing experience just got better for me :D

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Post by: chokkan 2 on August 08, 2007, 05:20:30 AM

yeah, it ate up all my memories ..... even I upgraded it ... it still ate them all .......

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Post by: Reanimation on August 08, 2007, 06:09:46 AM

it actually works. thanks dude.  :w00t: :D :yep:

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Post by: shadowstar on November 19, 2007, 02:04:12 PM

I'll try this out then!

Thanks  :grin:

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Post by: grenadier on June 19, 2010, 05:43:46 PM

thx for the info :pimp:

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Post by: Dronak on October 27, 2010, 02:48:32 AM

Anyone try the Memory Fox add-on?  I have it, and from what I've seen so far, it seems to work pretty well (and automatically).  You just have to remember to disable it before updating it.

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Post by: paijokece on November 11, 2012, 04:45:59 PM

thanks bro  :cow:

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Post by: dToTb on November 16, 2022, 01:29:57 PM

Great thanks. Checking for my firefox now...