Firefox being a hog.

[Luke Beale]

Hi,

Firefox is taking up 256,660 K Memory & keeps jumping up and down for CPU.

Any reason for its high memory usage?

Any way to decrease it?

[StarLab]

I came across this myself. It's a pain as it bogs down my old FrankenPuter something awful.

Some things that will help:

• Keep the number of open tabs to a minimum. Each open tab uses a certain amount of memory.
• Keep the number of addons (Firebug, Developer plugins, 3rd party toolbars, etc) to a minimum.
• Restart FF periodically

As I understand it, FF3 addresses the memory problems.

Speed: Major architectural changes (such as the move to Cairo and a rewrite to how reflowing a page layout works) put foundations in place for major performance tuning which have resulted in speed increases in Beta 1, and will show further gains in future Beta releases.

[Luke Beale]

I changed theme back to default and removed a few add ons and its much faster

[TechSup]

Been running into this issue myself and most of it comes from the addons you have. Also by how many sites you may have loaded that require a lot of memory to load.

Good write up SL

[C.Whyte]

I also feel when you go past 14 tabs, it slows down significantly

[Jacob34]

Originally Posted by StarLab

I came across this myself. It's a pain as it bogs down my old FrankenPuter something awful.

Some things that will help:

• Keep the number of open tabs to a minimum. Each open tab uses a certain amount of memory.
• Keep the number of addons (Firebug, Developer plugins, 3rd party toolbars, etc) to a minimum.
• Restart FF periodically

As I understand it, FF3 addresses the memory problems.

Ah how is old FrankenPuter

[StarLab]

Originally Posted by Jacob34

Ah how is old FrankenPuter

It depends on which part you look at... lol

During a computer disaster about 1.5 years ago, I managed to rebuild my system from the dead bodies of 4 other computers. Nothing fits properly, so it's just a bunch of parts and cables sitting in the corner.

The only parts in it I purchased new were the hard drives. One is 4 years old (80Gb) and the other is about 2 years old (160Gb). Everything else came from dead machines that over the years had been given to me. So no idea on how old that stuff was.

It's a 2.0Ghz MoBo, so most stuff I need runs fairly well.

[sar420]

When firefox runs for a longtime, it always hogs my system memory!!

[D3n!ss3_gÜrL]

Originally Posted by sar420

When firefox runs for a longtime, it always hogs my system memory!!

Noticed the same in my case. And when I've open more than ten tabs at a time.

[TechSup]

Hate to say this, but I migrated to Opera 9.27 until FF gets their stuff fixed, I am going to miss the fox

[sar420]

Originally Posted by D3n!ss3_gÜrL

Noticed the same in my case. And when I've open more than ten tabs at a time.

Decided to look up a solution. Here's a good hack I found

[Costin Trifan]

LOL...Decided better not to use FF

[D3n!ss3_gÜrL]

Originally Posted by sar420

Decided to look up a solution. Here's a good hack I found

Thanks sar! Hoping for faster FF!

Originally Posted by Costin Trifan

LOL...Decided better not to use FF

hey, welcome back Costin! *wave*

[sar420]

Originally Posted by D3n!ss3_gÜrL

Thanks sar! Hoping for faster FF!

Well firefox 3 promises to be much better, and definitely so in terms of browsing speeds!

[Thanol]

Originally Posted by sar420

Well firefox 3 promises to be much better, and definitely so in terms of browsing speeds!

It is so much better, but it crashes all the time. It was still in beta then so I suppose it deserves some slack.

[Jacob34]

Originally Posted by StarLab

It depends on which part you look at... lol

During a computer disaster about 1.5 years ago, I managed to rebuild my system from the dead bodies of 4 other computers. Nothing fits properly, so it's just a bunch of parts and cables sitting in the corner.

The only parts in it I purchased new were the hard drives. One is 4 years old (80Gb) and the other is about 2 years old (160Gb). Everything else came from dead machines that over the years had been given to me. So no idea on how old that stuff was.

It's a 2.0Ghz MoBo, so most stuff I need runs fairly well.

lol I have to try that some time. I have made many but not with out shell

[Nemisisx]

You should find that with a black theme, like redshift v2 (the one I use), that you will get a better cpu usage. Black doesnt require a lot of bright lights and so forth, this also works for your standard desktop. I would turn some add-ons off if it is running too slow, or even unistall them. I suggest keeping these ones though:
Fasterfox - Must have
Adblock Plus - Must have
Firebug
All-in-One Sidebar - Makes life easier
And the good old Web Developer
Be aware if you have more than about 7-8 add-ons turned on it will start to run slow. I also find having a higher number of tabs open slows it down quite a bit. Once I get somewhere between 7-10 tabs open I start a new window. Make sure you orgaise your toolbars so you have the least amount on the screen, this is why I love the All-in-One Sidebar. Hopefully Firefox 3 will solve some issues. Hope this helps some of you!

[so.ray2000]

Originally Posted by D3n!ss3_gÜrL

Noticed the same in my case. And when I've open more than ten tabs at a time.

same happen to me, what i did was just close the browser and restore the pre-session. ...