Firefox 3 = BLOATWARE?

I recently upgraded Firefox 2 to version 3, and guess what..
It takes a whopping 100k+ mem usage!!

Mozilla claims that the more you use the browser, the less mem usage it uses.
But I've been using it for about 2 weeks now, and so far, nothing's changed.
Still a resource hogger as usual.
It was a good thing that I recently added more RAM on my 'dummy' PC.

I've compared it to other leading browsers out there.
Even Flock 2 (a browser w/c uses the same source code as FF 3) is less bloated than FF3, despite the fact that it uses additional coding for it's built-in plugins.

I recommend everyone to use K-Meleon instead. It might not have any FF extensions, but it's WAY slimmer and faster than FF3 (even FF2 for that matter).

What's your take on this issue?


PS:
Is there a way to somehow downgrade it back to FF 2?

 

Did you remove FF2 completely, including profile and everything, before you installed 3? Just curious if installing 3 over 2 could have any unwanted effects.

Many criticize FF as being bloated, I suppose it is when compared to Opera and K-Meleon.

Some have reported much improved memory usage in v3 though, so I am a little surprised at your report.

Personally, I don't much care how much ram a browser uses, as long as there is no obvious or horrendous mushrooming memory leak or something. 100K, 150K, 80K, 50K, if you have ram, it's all pretty much the same. I look more for performance. If it's fast, then I use it. I pretty much judge them by speed.

 

FF3's memory usage seems to vary from user to user. Currently, I running here (with one tab and 8 extensions) at around 57.3 M. A little more than FF2 was for me... (But IMO, it's a nicer browser.)

 

Installed FF3 over FF2.
No problems were encountered.
Unfortunately, some extensions don't work in FF3.

Startup is a bit faster than FF2, but not noticeable.
Uses about 150k minimum, but spikes up when surfing with multiple tabs open.

Still looks like bloatware to me.
I can only recommend it to users with 1GB RAM or more.

 

That seems high, and I don't think that's typical either......

 

Installed FF3 on a new hard drive.
12 add ons.
1 tab open.
75,000 K.

Opera - 28,000.
But no Roboform for Opera.
I'm not noticing a slowdown.
Regards.
Hugger

 

Actually I never thought about it. FF does more than IE7 for instance. IE is like watching black and white TV next to FF. It seems as though there's no end to the things you can add to its performance.

 

My take is that it is not an issue, or more correctly, a non-issue.

If my math is correct, 100K is .004768% of my available memory of 2GB.

 

Firefox 3 for me seems much better. Faster, less memory (over time) compared to FF2.

Right now FF3 is pulling 150M RAM, 150VM. I've seen FF2 go as high as 300-400M RAM, 600M VM. Part of it for me was I didn't like restarting FF since the tabs were lost.

 

Yes, it's very strange indeed..
And the weird thing is, I'm currently only using 1 tab now, right here in WSF, still using 150k+.

Yesterday, I was watching in Youtube and Dailymotion, it spiked up to about 200k+!!!

Seriously, what the heck is going on?
My Win XP SP3 is fully patched and nLite'd.

 

Well, that's because you have a huge RAM capacity.

 

It's a metaphor?

 

I saw a lot of people with the same issue.
They also call FF a bloatware.

 

Btw, TaskMgr on my PC right now shows Firefox V3 using 43,328K.

And it is still a non-issue.

As for downgrading back to Firefox V2 ... Yes, you can. However, Firefox V2 is only going to be supported through mid-December 2008.

 

I am using Firefox 3 right now, and it uses about 83 MB of RAM (with 4 tabs open).

So, most likely it's your configuration that is causing Firefox to use lots of memory.

 

Hello,

I have noticed the following:

For me, the memory usage, while never high nor having encountered memory leaks since I think 1.5, was cut down in half by FF 3 upgrade.

Usage of certain anti-virus products can bring the memory up and down significantly.

Usage of extensions can achieve the same.

Check that you did not tweak something, install, remove, kill, destroy, which might be causing FF to misbehave.

I have never encountered FF problems of any great significance, small bugs here and there. The greatest is two context menu open-with icons on Windows, a legacy of FF 2 over-install, probably some naughty registry leftover.

Mrk

 

@nomarjr3: You should seriously check your profile using this info.

 

Firefox 3 isn't bloatware, at least here. K-Meleon runs way slower here, too.

 

High memory usage could be due to some obscure means such as theurlclassifier3.sqlite and urlclassifier2.sqlite files that relate to FF's "Tell me if a site is a suspected forgery" setting and or logging by an extension.
CCleaner Forum Discussion

 

Hi,

Right now my ( IE7) iexplore.exe (with ToolbarCop link ...) :

# Without WEB-site : RAM use :20644 KB ; VM : 14756 KB .

With site ( 1 Page of Wilders - Firefox3= ...) :RAM use : 28420 KB ; VM : 20420 KB

Thanks

 

I've finally found the root cause of all this.

I disabled numerous active plugins and deleted all themes.

FF3 now uses about 70k minimum, but I think my 1GB RAM can take it.

 

Hi, nomarjr3 ,

YES , it is a way of wisdom.
Now : exchange FF for IE7 ,without bar of Google ...

 

That is an extreme oddity......