Mozilla Still Perplexed as to Why Firefox Takes So Much RAM

[WarEagleAU]

Firefox uses around 136,788 kbs of memory on my system everytime. Thats a bit ridiculous if you ask me as IE7.0 doesnt user near that much.

 

[jurrasstoil]

Hmm, I'd be happy about FF using less memory - it would be a plus.
But with at least 2gb of ram in my PC(s), I don't give a sh*t about 50-200mb of ram used by FF.

 

[Ketxxx]

I've seen FF use 100MB here... IMO thats a HUGE chunk of memory just for a browser.

 

[Woah Mama!]

Right now I'm at 61.8MB after 90minutes, single tab, 5 add-ons and the Nasa night launch theme.

 

[Steevo]

If anyone here actually understands what a memory leak is, go jump in a pool.



A memory leak is a pool of resources that will never be released, or have control transfered back to the kernel of the OS.


For example, after awhile of playing one of the CIV games, a older one, under Windows 98 and after quitting the application memory that should have been free for other applications was marked as in use, due to files and cache still being loaded.


But Cache that is still in use, such as recently visited webpages or downloads is not a memory leak, it is just bad programming, or a bad interface between what the program marks as active set and what the OS keeps in page for physical RAM.

 

[OnBoard]

Probably don't even need that much. Default is 64MB. I set mine to 32MB.

Isn't default unlimited? That's why you need to add the integer value there. I've added 64MB once and now altered it to your 32MB, maybe it helps a bit

 

[Wile E]

Isn't default unlimited? That's why you need to add the integer value there. I've added 64MB once and now altered it to your 32MB, maybe it helps a bit

Nope, default is 64MB. That value should've been in yours, I don't know why it wasn't. Unless I'm mistaken, and it's added by one of my extensions. Never checked on a clean install. I'll have to do that next time.