JustGeorge Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 I was browsing this astronomy site, looking at pics and noticed FF was getting real slow. Checked the taskmanager and bloody hell! A personal best for me! :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H3lix Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 wow, how the hell did that happen? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGeorge Posted December 11, 2005 Author Share Posted December 11, 2005 Had Gmail open in one tab and this site in another. This is by no means gonna stop me from using FF, but thats pretty bad stuff there. Closed/re-opened and got most of the RAM back, but sheesh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H3lix Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 i've had like 10 tabs open at once before and never gotten anywhere near that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWahbinator Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 I use Opera whenever I view a site with 100 pics of about 400x400 or more. Maybe you should since Firefox isn't suitable for that type of browsing? (not trolling since I use Firefox everyday) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phend-one Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 Yeah, I hate that. System actually started lurching after a week of not closing FF. Took me a while to figure out it was leaking memory. I hope this gets fixed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangbang023 Veteran Posted December 11, 2005 Veteran Share Posted December 11, 2005 Firefox is known for terrible memory management. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EZRecovery Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 What version are you running? I'm running 1.5 and have about 8 tabs open right now. Only using about 60k. I'm pretty sure bangbang answer is right, since he works on those nightly builds. /EZ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nav1 Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 It happens to me all the time, whenever I have either too many tabs open, or too many images loaded. Since I have only 128 MB RAM, it can be an issue, so I just learn to deal with it and change the way I browse sites with many images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangbang023 Veteran Posted December 11, 2005 Veteran Share Posted December 11, 2005 heres two neowin tabs open and nothing more: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DELTA75329 Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 I think it's an issue with FireFox not releasing memory when you close a tab. After a while, it all adds up. I've experienced this starting with version 1.0.5 and it continues with 1.5. Indeed, I've seen FFX allocate 300+Mb in memory. I don't know what causes it, but I have an extension with a restart command included in it's suite of tools. (MR Tech's Local Install 4.0) I assigned an icon on one of my toolbars and I use it whenever FireFox gets to be a unruly RAM pig. Great browser, and definitely my top choice over IE, but the memory management could stand some considerable improvement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGeorge Posted December 11, 2005 Author Share Posted December 11, 2005 Hopefully, they'll deal wih this in the next release. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draconian Guppy Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 Firefox is known for terrible memory management. :yes: It's a memory hog at it's best :D one of the reasons why I switched to opera ! Victor Rambo 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDog Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 Yeah, I view a lot of art online and Firefox just keeps building up memory useage to rediculous levels... I still love it (although I use IE for certain sites) but I do find myself closing it and reloading it to free up those resources. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gone Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 heres two neowin tabs open and nothing more: Off topic: What theme is that? On topic: I've had 11 tabs open and only used about 100mb of ram (I have 1 gig) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exobot Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 Sure you didn't use that Long Title History DoS PoC? That would do it nicely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DKAngel Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 seen firefox also hit a large amount of ram, tis kinda wierd guess it depends on what it is rendering or doing in the background Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slimy Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 lol I think I'll stick with ie :rofl: that's absolutely crazy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greedyjimbo Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 just relised how much it uses - now wonder my pc runs so slow just cheaked 1 tab open = 33000 k :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernova_00 Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 (edited) If you are using Firefox 1.5 it is because of the new Fast-back browsing. Everything is kept in cache so that if you hit back button everything is loaded instantly and does not have to be re downloaded. If you want to disable this change this in about:config 'browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers' to 0, if at 5 that will saved everything that was loaded in last 5 pages in that tab. SO if you have a few tabs open that could be 25 tabs worth of pictures causing all that ram useage. Edited December 11, 2005 by supernova_00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangbang023 Veteran Posted December 11, 2005 Veteran Share Posted December 11, 2005 Off topic: What theme is that? Alyyseum for Windowblinds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGeorge Posted December 11, 2005 Author Share Posted December 11, 2005 If you are using Firefox 1.5 it is because of the new Fast-back browsing. Everything is kept in cache so that if you hit back button everything is loaded instantly and does not have to be re downloaded. If you want to disable this change this in about:config 'browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers' to 0, if at 5 that will saved everything that was loaded in last 5 pages in that tab. SO if you have a few tabs open that could be 25 tabs worth of pictures causing all that ram useage. Thats a very good point. Didn't think of that :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixated Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 If you are using Firefox 1.5 it is because of the new Fast-back browsing. Everything is kept in cache so that if you hit back button everything is loaded instantly and does not have to be re downloaded. If you want to disable this change this in about:config 'browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers' to 0, if at 5 that will saved everything that was loaded in last 5 pages in that tab. SO if you have a few tabs open that could be 25 tabs worth of pictures causing all that ram useage. This has been happening long before 1.5, so it's not that. Even with that.. do you think there's 500 mb of pages in his cache..? :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+virtorio MVC Posted December 11, 2005 MVC Share Posted December 11, 2005 More of Mozilla's overrated coding at work. They never were very good at the basics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGeorge Posted December 11, 2005 Author Share Posted December 11, 2005 Does anyone think I should post this on bugzilla given that its a known issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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