I've noticed that even sitting around doing nothing (just a couple forum pages open) my firefox program will start to hog resources, up to 400MB of RAM easily. If I watch movies or anything that has a lot of media, even when finished, I can push 800-900MB after a little while.
Anyone have a similar problem?
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Yeah, I noticed that too with my PC; nothing you can do till they fix the bug. If you don't have FreeRam XP Pro I suggest you get it in case it gets worse.
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Reduce RAM usage to 10MB when Firefox is minimized:
This little hack will drop Firefox’s RAM usage down to 10 Mb when minimized:
1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter “config.trim_on_minimizeâ€. Press Enter.
4. Now select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.
Reduce the amount of RAM Firefox uses for its cache feature
1. Type “about:config†(no quotes) in the adress bar in the browser.
2. Find “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewerâ€
3. Set it’s value to “0“;(Zero)
www.dagorret.net/2009/03/25/a-handful-of-firefox-tweaks-that-will-double-your-browser-speed
This little hack will drop Firefox’s RAM usage down to 10 Mb when minimized:
1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter “config.trim_on_minimizeâ€. Press Enter.
4. Now select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.
Reduce the amount of RAM Firefox uses for its cache feature
1. Type “about:config†(no quotes) in the adress bar in the browser.
2. Find “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewerâ€
3. Set it’s value to “0“;(Zero)
www.dagorret.net/2009/03/25/a-handful-of-firefox-tweaks-that-will-double-your-browser-speed
MYteddy wrote:
Reduce RAM usage to 10MB when Firefox is minimized:
This little hack will drop Firefox’s RAM usage down to 10 Mb when minimized:
1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter “config.trim_on_minimizeâ€. Press Enter.
4. Now select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.
Reduce the amount of RAM Firefox uses for its cache feature
1. Type “about:config†(no quotes) in the adress bar in the browser.
2. Find “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewerâ€
3. Set it’s value to “0“;(Zero)
www.dagorret.net/2009/03/25/a-handful-of-firefox-tweaks-that-will-double-your-browser-speed
This little hack will drop Firefox’s RAM usage down to 10 Mb when minimized:
1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter “config.trim_on_minimizeâ€. Press Enter.
4. Now select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.
Reduce the amount of RAM Firefox uses for its cache feature
1. Type “about:config†(no quotes) in the adress bar in the browser.
2. Find “browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewerâ€
3. Set it’s value to “0“;(Zero)
www.dagorret.net/2009/03/25/a-handful-of-firefox-tweaks-that-will-double-your-browser-speed
Nice find MYteddy, but you link seems to be a bit broken. I fixed it in the quote.
Edited, Aug 3rd 2009 9:38pm by Shaowstrike
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"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
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The "10MB ram while minimized" is slightly broken.
Sure, it sets it to 10MB when you minimize, initially, but then it will slowly start to climb, and then jump up a bit more. 50-60MB after a few seconds.
Sure, it sets it to 10MB when you minimize, initially, but then it will slowly start to climb, and then jump up a bit more. 50-60MB after a few seconds.
Can't sleep, clown will eat me.
TirithRR wrote:
The "10MB ram while minimized" is slightly broken.
Sure, it sets it to 10MB when you minimize, initially, but then it will slowly start to climb, and then jump up a bit more. 50-60MB after a few seconds.
Sure, it sets it to 10MB when you minimize, initially, but then it will slowly start to climb, and then jump up a bit more. 50-60MB after a few seconds.
60MB is still better then the 600MB mine had a choke hold on.
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"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
— James D. Nicoll
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Cooking/Fishing 100
"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
— James D. Nicoll
Mine is sitting at about 80MB right now. I had thought it had more to do with the W7RC, but if other people are having the issue too I guess it's FF.
To be fair, I have seen IE climb up there in RAM usage as well, but never in the hundreds of MB.
To be fair, I have seen IE climb up there in RAM usage as well, but never in the hundreds of MB.
Yeah its...flawed. However, the new 3.6 alpha is very nice. A lot of addons dont work with it yet, as well as some java sites (it IS in alpha stage after all).
You might want to give it a try though.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Browsers/Mozilla-Firefox-Final.shtml
You might want to give it a try though.
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Browsers/Mozilla-Firefox-Final.shtml
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MYteddy wrote:
1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter “config.trim_on_minimizeâ€. Press Enter.
4. Now select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.
2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean.
3. In the box that pops up enter “config.trim_on_minimizeâ€. Press Enter.
4. Now select True and then press Enter.
5. Restart Firefox.
In fact, I've had several problems with firefox lately. Pages getting bogged down, plugins lagging/failing, right mouse button being "stuck" down.
Frustrating.
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bsphil wrote:
In fact, I've had several problems with firefox lately. Pages getting bogged down, plugins lagging/failing, right mouse button being "stuck" down.
Frustrating.
Frustrating.
I don't know about the first couple of problems, but the last one seems to me to be caused not by Firefox but what you watch on it.
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"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
— James D. Nicoll
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Cooking/Fishing 100
"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."
— James D. Nicoll
Huh.. maybe that has something to do with it.
Recently, as in the last month or so, Firefox has been just randomly crashing, at which point if I boot it up again, it will crash more. I was just system restoring each time it happened (maybe like once a week) and it seemed to fix it for a while. Maybe it's totally unrelated, but I just checked its ram and it was at 400MB, and I only have a gig in this computer.
Recently, as in the last month or so, Firefox has been just randomly crashing, at which point if I boot it up again, it will crash more. I was just system restoring each time it happened (maybe like once a week) and it seemed to fix it for a while. Maybe it's totally unrelated, but I just checked its ram and it was at 400MB, and I only have a gig in this computer.
Shaowstrike wrote:
bsphil wrote:
In fact, I've had several problems with firefox lately. Pages getting bogged down, plugins lagging/failing, right mouse button being "stuck" down.
Frustrating.
Frustrating.
I don't know about the first couple of problems, but the last one seems to me to be caused not by Firefox but what you watch on it.
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Almalieque wrote:
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