Firefox

[Petah]

Today I noticed that Firefox was using 2.5GB of RAM. I think that's a new record for me.

Whats does your Firefox get up to?

[Jazcash]

My Firefox doesn't get up to a lot because my Chrome keeps him pinned all day.

[Forboding Angel]

Usually about 200 mb or so. Firefox is resource heavy, but no other browser is as flexible with the available extensions, etc so imo there is no replacement.

[Gota]

I like Firefox and it wroks so why should i switch...
The only thing i want is for my firefox to remember another firefox window i closed and not just closed tabs...
Its annoying when i have 2 windows of firefox and i accidentally close one and cant unclose it like i can with a closed tab.

[LameFox]

The highest I've seen mine is about 200mb. Normally it's barely above 100.

2.5gb is impressive. That's even worse than windows.

[Petah]

It becoming a regular occurrence for me lately.

I opened Firefox, 3 minutes later its using 1GB.

I like Firefox and it wroks so why should i switch...
The only thing i want is for my firefox to remember another firefox window i closed and not just closed tabs...
Its annoying when i have 2 windows of firefox and i accidentally close one and cant unclose it like i can with a closed tab.

There already is this. [History] -> [Recently Closed Windows]

[Das Bruce]

I like Firefox and it wroks so why should i switch...
The only thing i want is for my firefox to remember another firefox window i closed and not just closed tabs...
Its annoying when i have 2 windows of firefox and i accidentally close one and cant unclose it like i can with a closed tab.

Ctrl+Shift+N reopens your last closed window, alternatively you can go History->Recently Closed Windows-> WindowNameHere

[Gota]

Oh,right.cool.

[Das Bruce]

Amateurs, amateurs everywhere.

[BaNa]

I've had firefox using 1.5 gigs recently, but i distinctly recall an occasion when it bogged down my 4 gig pc, must have gone up to like 3 gigs then. I usually have hundreds of tabs open on multiple windows.

[Jazcash]

Chrome has loads of extensions, I even prefer its built in page inspector over firebug. Seriously, check out the chrome extensions sometime, there's more than you think.

[Petah]

I normally have < 30 tabs open.

But yea Firebug, web dev toolbar, google toolbar, download status bar, download them all, page speed, ad block+, and aging tabs slow me down. Even though I have 8GB of RAM.

I have to say, Ive use both Firebug and Chrome's inspector, and I much prefer Firebug. Its nice to see a growing collection of Chrome extensions though.

[Petah]

An I just read that Chrome can't run effective ad blocking extensions.

'Do no evil' yea right.

[LameFox]

I'm not sure about chrome itself but I had adblock on chromium at one point. Couldn't find an equivalent to NoScript though, sadly.

[Jazcash]

Both posts above fail, my chrome blocks every ad, even some popups, it even blocks some YouTube ads on the videos. There's flash/JavaScript blockers too. Again, go check extensions store out, there's thousands. Also, extensions in chrome don't slow it down like addons in firefox.

[LameFox]

I know you can block those things, I just never found an equivalent to that specific add-on. It wasn't exactly yesterday, so there might be more by now, but either way I don't have any problems with ff like others seem to.

[SirMaverick]

Today I noticed that Firefox was using 2.5GB of RAM.
Whats does your Firefox get up to?

Normally 200-300MB. Can be up to 1+Gb (depending on how many pages visited and how long firefox was running (e.g. several days))
It's known that firefox has some memory leaks. Just restart it.

[Peet]

Code: Select all

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
31393 peet      20   0 1414m 1.0g  34m S    0 27.1  76:51.82 opera
 2996 peet      20   0  790m 234m  17m S    1  6.2 133:36.12 firefox

Opera has 31+36+34=101 tabs open.

Firefox has seven.

[Forboding Angel]

Chrome has loads of extensions, I even prefer it's built in page inspector over firebug. Seriously, check out the chrome extensions sometime, there's more than you think.

No greasemonkey, lolgg.

[zerver]

Firefox resource leaks have increased with recent versions. Most annoying is that it also leaks GDI objects, and when you hit the limit on those the whole OS acts weird.

This max GDI object limit is a real strange thing, apparently some relic from Windows 3.11. I cannot understand why M$ didn't try to fix it.