firefox is using 1.18gb of my 4gb

I only have two windows/tabs open, one is a streaming radio and the other is the window i am browsing in.

John.

 

Seems normal... for Firefox.

 

Yep. If you leave it open for weeks, like I do, it can get all the way up to 3GB+ before it crashes. I'm on a crappy connection, so if I find a tab to be interesting, or just to read it later, I'm leaving it open. BTW Chrome is just as memory hog, the real deal-breaker is good luck browsing with more than 40 tabs, 60?! and you can barely select them. To sum it up - every browser is memory hog, just give it some time. It's probably just me, but I kept v3,16 for quite some time and updated when they hit v20, and 3,16 was less prone to this, my all time high was 1,8GB+.

 

Is the streaming website serving you flash content?
Is the amount of RAM increasing as time passes?

If the answer to the above is yes then it's because flash holds the data in memory while downloading, and so the longer the connection is open, the more data is downloaded and thus, more RAM consumed.
You may consider restarting your browser every, say, ~30min if you want to conserve memory. The sound object is destroyed once the connection is closed and the memory is released.

 

Disagree, see attachment (ff23 with a few tabs open incl youtube video stream).

 

No flash, it`s steaming radio, also i have addblock which disables most flash adds

I am now using an free app called minimem that was designed to reduce firefox memory usage, and now the memory usage jumps anyware between 15mb and 750mb.

john.

 

Hi.

I found an Firefox add-on called "memory fox", and it make a night and day difference in the Firefox memory usage showing in taskmanger

EDIT: Firefox seems to be running smoother.

John.

 

My chrome have 50+ tab everyday and works fine, just not as snappy.

Load page take almost a sec instead of a blink

For w.e reason flash block'd content still hold ram iirc.

 

Am i the only one here who never has more than 8 tabs open at any given moment? And who shuts off their PC instead of Sleep mode?

1990s

 

No, no you're not.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/off...you-currently-have-open-your-web-browser.html

Me, and my laptop, never sleep. We always "shut down" at the end of the day. :yes:

 

Just wanted to say that using Adblock Plus and NoScript can reduce FF memory usage and page load time on account of less crap being loaded. Also, if hardware acceleration is disabled for some reason, enable it...

 

Could be that the radio streaming website is leaking memory. Especially in more complex web applications, it's not that difficult to accidentally create a memory leak, so I could see a radio application with a memory leak adding up to quite a bit of memory over time. Perhaps Memory Fox was able to detect that the memory wasn't needed better than Firefox without it. Or perhaps it was just a one-time thing where you hit the memory leak and the next time you didn't run into it.

My record for Firefox was about 2.3 GB with one tab open earlier this week. I was loading a lot of data into that one web page. Trying to load it with other tabs open had caused Firefox to crash, but with just that tab on 64-bit Windows it managed.

I guess not, but I'm not in that group. I do usually turn off my computer, at least at home. There I'm usually using my desktop, and with an SSD and an HDD whose sequential access almost beats the SSD, it starts fast. Occasionally I use Standby, but rarely. At work, I usually hibernate, but sometimes shut down. That computer is really slow to start with all the proggies running at startup. And since it has an encrypted HDD, Sleep isn't even an option. Which means that technically, I don't have a single computer that has a Sleep mode - Hibernate or Standby depending on the computer, but never Sleep.

Tabs, though? I've got 33 right now, spread across 2 windows of 2 different versions of Opera (12.16 and 11.64). Opera 12 actually does really well with high amounts of tabs. I've occasionally reached triple digits, and the responsiveness is usually fine - the problem then is that I've usually long ago lost track of what all is open. And the last time I had 99 tabs open (of which NBR was not one), the memory usage per tab was pretty good. Then again, in a 32-bit program with one process, it would have to be decent with 99 tabs. Opera's modus operandi seems to be to be freewheeling with the RAM while there's lots available, but more conservative as the scales start tipping. Which works for me - 1.35 GB of my 2.24 GB in use being Opera is fine when I have 8 GB available.