HellBender Posted December 11, 2005 Share Posted December 11, 2005 Alyyseum for Windowblinds A google search gives zero results for that... Do you have a link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Jorge Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 Yea, Firefox has become a real resource hog. Even with 1GB of Ram, it still tends to slow down browsing for me. I'll load 1 tab, click 2 links to open in new tabs and load in the background, and Firefox will just freeze while at least the first one finishes loading. :dontgetit: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangbang023 Veteran Posted December 12, 2005 Veteran Share Posted December 12, 2005 A google search gives zero results for that... Do you have a link? http://www.wincustomize.com/ViewSkin.aspx?...ID=5267&LibID=1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kr0z Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 More of Mozilla's overrated coding at work. They never were very good at the basics. *ouch* :pinch: But I tend to agree with you there. For the time being I think I'll go back to IE sometimes I use Opera now too since I miss tabs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob2687 Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 Java in FF is horrible too. If you have a page with a java applet in it and close the tab it will use up a lot of memory until you close FF completely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fierce Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 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. Thank's , thats useful :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilcoopr Posted December 12, 2005 Share Posted December 12, 2005 I still have Firefox 1.0.7... I haven't upgraded yet because of all this negative stuff I'm hearing about 1.5. I find that my version of FF uses far too much memory as well. I always have about 4 tabs open though - so that might be the problem. Also, when we say FF uses too much memory, what are we saying is the average amount of memory we're expecting FF to use? (if that makes any sense). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primexx Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 1.5 has no problems. If you want to avoid problems, dont upgrade, wipe your current installation (might wana backup your profile if your REALY worried), then do a fresh install and install all the extensions again. Overkill IMO but I did it that way anyways. FF memory leakage has been a long history, it's supposed to be fixed in 2.0 AND, it does use extreamly large ammounts of memory as a browser. It's very true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGeorge Posted December 13, 2005 Author Share Posted December 13, 2005 They have this shiny new auto-update feature so you're saying they're gonna sit around till 2.0 to fix this? It seemed to take forever for them to get 1.5 out the door. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rvbfan Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 Wow, thats odd. I get 78,960 peak memory useage with 12 tabs open. And FireFox has been on for over 4hrs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGeorge Posted December 13, 2005 Author Share Posted December 13, 2005 I had been on that site for about an hour and the other tab was Gmail. Before Installing, I nuked everything and installed fresh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primexx Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 They have this shiny new auto-update feature so you're saying they're gonna sit around till 2.0 to fix this? It seemed to take forever for them to get 1.5 out the door. nono i never said anything. according to sources (sources consisting of about 100% of the web population, with +/- 1% margin of error) it's going to be released in 2.0 because 1) it's such a huge bug that they couldent fix it in 1.5, so they are fixing it in the next release, and 2) the next release IS 2.0. What does that have anything to do with the new autoupdate feature? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+virtorio MVC Posted December 13, 2005 MVC Share Posted December 13, 2005 FF memory leakage has been a long history, it's supposed to be fixed in 2.0 As an (ex)long-time Mozilla software user I can tell you, they've said they're going to be fixing their memory leak issues in "their next release" since about Netscape 6 PR-1 (in 2000). It's not going to happen. And for those know don't know what Netscape PR-1 is, here's a screnshot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGeorge Posted December 13, 2005 Author Share Posted December 13, 2005 nono i never said anything. according to sources (sources consisting of about 100% of the web population, with +/- 1% margin of error) it's going to be released in 2.0 because 1) it's such a huge bug that they couldent fix it in 1.5, so they are fixing it in the next release, and 2) the next release IS 2.0. What does that have anything to do with the new autoupdate feature? I was implying that they could patch the leaks and use the auto-update instead of waiting and releasing an entirely new exe/version for everyone to download like we used to have to do. Was under the impression thats what auto update was meant for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primexx Posted December 13, 2005 Share Posted December 13, 2005 I was implying that they could patch the leaks and use the auto-update instead of waiting and releasing an entirely new exe/version for everyone to download like we used to have to do. Was under the impression thats what auto update was meant for. yea they could if they had an update for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustGeorge Posted December 13, 2005 Author Share Posted December 13, 2005 I know as of now they have no remedy, but it seems they're taking the stance of security updates only from auto-update and actual browser fixes (like this issue) are being saved for version upgrades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
primexx Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 that much im not certain of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozgeek Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 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 It is not 60K. It is 60 MB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ark Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 I open 8 tabs and FF 1.5 eats me 145MB Ram i got problem when open/change/close tag CPU load 100% , my system freeze 0.5 second ( i think so ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Posted December 14, 2005 Share Posted December 14, 2005 As an (ex)long-time Mozilla software user I can tell you, they've said they're going to be fixing their memory leak issues in "their next release" since about Netscape 6 PR-1 (in 2000). It's not going to happen. And for those know don't know what Netscape PR-1 is, here's a screnshot: :rofl: Maybe Firefox 3.0 then... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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