FireFox Memory Usage?

Hi Arup... I set it identified as Opera, but still its slower than Firefox.

Anyway, here are the memory usage of my three browsers... they are idle and not yet connected to dial-up net connection. Really, Firefox eats up a lot... its a "voracious" eater.

 

Yep... I checked mine and it was running at 68-69k normally and peak. [with 12 tabs open]

I minimised it, and watched in TM as it dropped to below 12k

Maximised it and it climbed back to 23k....

so that's good, can release memory via a minimise every once in a while.

edit: hmmm that is interesting... decided to try again and just watch in TM..

Minimised it, and it dropped this time to just over 4,000k

I left it minimised and watched TM... firefox steadily climbed back up and after only a couple of mins was up to 56k with me doing nothing, just sitting in TaskBar. Not one other app moved in that time at all, just FF.

 

Hi,
I noticed that certain sites cause FF to use 50-60 cpu and lots of memory. Not so if javascript is disabled though - not spyware sites.
Normal usage for 10-15 tabs is around 50-60K.
Mrk

 

Firefox with 4 tabs open, and active surfing in one tab( many extensions installed)
IE with one window and active surfing

 

IE minimum memory use with no active surfing( it was variable from 4.5 to 12 approx as far as I can remember). Surprisingly for firefox with 4 tabs open but no active surfing, memory usage was same as in above post.

 

And finally firefox in safe mode, one tab, no extensions.

 

Ridiculous memory usage.

 

Here is a thread that might help some of you.

Firefox Memory Usage Thread

 

Are most of you firefox users using 1.0 or 1.5?

 

1.5.0.1, which is taking 60 MB of memory and still climbing , but hey, why did I purchase one gig of RAM?

Alphalutra1

 

1.5.0.1
and see posts 32, 33, 34 !!!!!!