Tomi Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 Take a look in your Task Manager under the Processes tab, then click the Mem Usage title so it sorts by that. Scroll down to the bottom and you might find firefox.exe at the end using the most. For me its using 22,856 K [approx, always changing around there] and thats the highest? Is it just me or Firefox uses up your memory the most? [just so you know i am a firefox supporter and i'm not trying to say firefox sucks.] Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rablet Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 54176k here atm EDIT: Restarted FireFox and now it uses 24532k Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584595379 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 Firefox consistantly takes up 50meg+ here. Course this is with 6-10 tabs open, but still.... Right now it's at 90meg with 8 tabs. A bit much I think Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584595574 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wyntahchyld Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 That's odd i have 2 instances of firefox open right now and it's only at 15,230K but when i minimize both windows it drops to 2,543K :blink: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584595614 Share on other sites More sharing options...
beardedwonder Posted September 20, 2004 Share Posted September 20, 2004 Firefox = 27,084K with My start page, zeropaid and this thread in tabs IE = 15,220K, 11,920K and 2,724K TOTAL= 29,864 K 'nuff said! Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584595621 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyranthus Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 thats nothing compared to opera... ive noticed lately that it takes up around 80 megs.... (just lately did i figure that out) in the resource monitor... so just be happy that your firefox doesnt take up as much resources as opera... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584595654 Share on other sites More sharing options...
L3thal Veteran Posted September 21, 2004 Veteran Share Posted September 21, 2004 Firefox takes up at whopping 24,364K with one tab open. With two tabs, it goes up to the 30's. If I'm not mistaken, this is caused by memory leaks which they are suppose to fix for 1.0. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584595655 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnO Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 lmao I have 20 tabs open and it's only at 22k simmer down I've seen IE reach insane leaves Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584595674 Share on other sites More sharing options...
GNRambo Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 49K with 3 tabs Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584595680 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasteo Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 I believe Firefox automatic config its memory usage by looking at the amount of the available memory in each system. On my main system with 1GB ram, Firefox use around 68MB for 5 Tabs open, but on my old Laptop with 128MB, Firefox use only 10MB for the same 5 Tabs open. At first I'm also worry about the memory usage of Firefox, but then I think I have over 1GB of ram... why I need to worry about only 70MB. It's such a waste of resource if I don't use them.... don't you think so? Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584595685 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rablet Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 Well, it's worth those extra megabytes of ram it uses :D Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584597583 Share on other sites More sharing options...
insanekiwi Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 sometimes up to 60mb. makes itunes lag. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584597590 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jardragon901 Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 Dude if it makes itunes lag get more ram. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584597613 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshalus Veteran Posted September 21, 2004 Veteran Share Posted September 21, 2004 I really doubt FX is making your computer lag if you have decent specs. I've put it on computers running less than 128MB and it works perfectly. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584598153 Share on other sites More sharing options...
insanekiwi Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 Dude if it makes itunes lag get more ram. i have 512mb, thats why i was wondering :blink: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584598162 Share on other sites More sharing options...
krmathis Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 Firefox currently use 113MB here, but I dont care much. I have 644MB memory free anyway! :yes: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584598552 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koto Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 With five tabs open, Firefox 1.0 PR uses 30,552K at max for me. I have 1 GB of RAM... Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584598603 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyre Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 Try minimizing the browser window, then take a look at the memory usage. It seems to go down a lot. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584598619 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason S. Global Moderator Posted September 21, 2004 Global Moderator Share Posted September 21, 2004 using 30.5MBs here :o Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584598635 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason S. Global Moderator Posted September 21, 2004 Global Moderator Share Posted September 21, 2004 well if that isnt the weirdest thing... when you minimized (as stated above) mine went down to 1.5MBs Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584598642 Share on other sites More sharing options...
stezo2k Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 22meg open, 1meg minimized nice :) Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584598653 Share on other sites More sharing options...
D0401 Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 36 megs for me open. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584598873 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tagerd0g Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 i just checked mine and it was at 172MB with only 3 tabs open. I minimized it, went down to 5MB but usage still went up (got leakage?); maximized it and popped back up to 20MB (and still rising 4K every few seconds). I hit the restore (button between min and max) and RAM usage jumped up from 24 to 35, hit it again and it jumped to 45. it's crazy! I'm using version 0.9.3 actually, you know it's weird... I just closed winamp and the memory creep slowed down a bit. i had clicked on a shoutcast link a few hours ago to listen to some online music. i think it's odd how firefox RAM usage goes up if I use it to start winamp. :blink: Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584599186 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JimmyT Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 Minimize/Maximize memory effect is the same on IE. Don't worry about that, it's just the way it's supposed to be. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584599283 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozgeek Posted September 21, 2004 Share Posted September 21, 2004 Mine uses up to 40 meg, but normally around 30 meg with 4 tabs on start up. When minimized, less than 10 meg. Link to comment https://www.neowin.net/forum/topic/220431-firefox-using-most-memory/#findComment-584599308 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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