Amazing Firefox Add On

Memory Fox Keeps memory down. Read more at the makers blog.

 

Hey fix your link, when I click on it, it takes me to some wildlife site. So, I have to manually copy and paste the link in my browser to make it work.

 

Link fixed.

 

Interesting.

Has anyone had any gain when using it yet?

I'm trying it out now, will have to keep an eye on FF for a bit to see if it works.

 

Thanks for this.

I tried this one and here are some preliminary 'results' I saw.

According to Task manager (working set memory), without memory fox, FF with 33 tabs took around 300,508 k.

Then I installed memory fox, and task manager showed FF using 229,805 k, with the same 33 tabs.

Does it make any sense or give good vibes?

PS., If it is of any use, among those 33 tabs, 3 were youtube, 4 reader, 1 bbc, 1 cnn and the rest general websites.

 

It reduced my memory usage by 75%(About 250MB to 5x MB).Thanks for this one!

 

If this works, praises be upon you. But what is it reducing to make it work? *shifty eyes*

 

It works, but i noticed if i played a game at the same time while running firefox, it gave a little stutter ones in a while :\

 

I'd be willing to bet it pages a few tabs to the HDD. When flipping through the tabs pretty quickly, does each webpage just snap into view and is instantly scrollable/interactive or is there kind of a lag? I use Chrome exclusively so I can't try this one... but I'm interested none the less.

 

Thanks for Sharing this Awesome and Marvelous FF Add-On.
+ REP!

 

Note: Same tab's where open. I let FF set for about 30 seconds - 1 minute before checking.


Firefox without Add-On

- Working Set (Memory): 110k
- Memory (Private Working Set): 77k


Firefox with Add-On

- Working Set (Memory): 68K
- Memory (Private Working Set): 43k

 

Wow, I see a major decrease.

 

I too see a major decrease in used memory even though FF 3.6 was a great improvement in and of itself over previous versions.

For instance, I typically have 10 windows and ~40 tabs open at one time and I was using ~250,000K of memory prior to MemoryFox and that is now effectively educed by half to ~125,000K while running MemoryFox!

Looks like MemoryFox is on to something...nice work!!!

 

And... saving memory does absolutely nothing unless you were running out of memory in the first place.

Kinda reminds me of all those "OMG Vista uses up XXXX amount of memory XP only uses 1/5th of that!" it took a long time to make people understand un-used RAM is wasted RAM and if FF was doing something with that RAM your now not using to make it run faster/better I would consider this a counter productive add-on.

At best if there is no loss of functionality its not helping you or your system one bit unless again you only had like a single 512mb stick of RAM installed and were hitting a page file.

 

Not unless you are a heavy multi-tasker like myself.

More often than not, I am running FF while using MSN, Itunes, and sometimes run Diablo 2 while I watch a Youtube video or two *not the same time as Itunes *, while having my other task bar applications running (I only close them to do heavy gaming anyways).

I see it as, the less RAM you use isn't a waste, but better accommodates your system to use that RAM for other applications you may be using.

I haven't noticed any performance loss either, so for me this add-on is good. Not necessary of course, but good if you like to know you are using less resources on your system.

 

But when you have memory gadgets and/or taskbar apps that are in plain site all the time, you tend to get a little anal about stuff.