Firefox is a monster resource hog. how can it not be?

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The only problem I have with Firefox these days is an occasional crash. Otherwise it works fine and I don't find it sluggish at all. I have many tabs open usually and am using:

All in-One Sidebar
ColorZilla
Firebug
RankChecker
RefControl
SEO for Firefox
SEO Toolbar
Web Developer

and a few more that are disabled like Sothink SWF Catcher.

Currently FF is using 175mb on my machine which has 4gb of ram in it (but is on XP pro so only uses 3mb).

I would suggest adding more RAM to your machine if you are running less than 2gb.

Defrag your HD.

Select "run" and type "msconfig" and disable any start up apps that you don't need that are also hogging resources.

etc.
 


Firefox 3.5, 14 tabs open, no big flash videos in any tab.. real memory used 577MB, virtual memory used 2,28GB.

This browser has some serious issues but until they make good addons to Safari 4, I'm stuck with this Firefox shit. Tried Safari 4 for a month but found out quickly that I just need Live HTTP Headers etc. so often that it doesn't make any sense to use it.
 
micfire said:
Firefox 3.5, 14 tabs open, no big flash videos in any tab.. real memory used 577MB, virtual memory used 2,28GB.
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If FF says it's using 577mb, then that is what it is using. As it is a total of system wide resources being used, if you are dipping into your virtual memory like that, then I would suspect you have other stuff open (like Photoshop perhaps?) or don't have enough RAM (1gb perhaps?).
 
aeisn said:
How does it do speed wise compared to chrome? I know it runs on chromium, but as I understand it Google's version is different.
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It pretty much IS chrome, just minus all the creepy shit.
Like I doubt you'll notice the difference. The only issues I've had from it is a few sites insisting it's incompatible since they didn't recognize it as FF/IE. And that's not a big deal.
On 2 out of 3 computers it's my default browser now (all have FF/IE/Chrome/Iron)
 
Swithched to Opera last week it's good so far, the thing that sucks the most is I cannot use Roboform with Opera :(
 
ontheconcord said:
If you're on mac, safari 4.
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I'm trying to like it, but there are a few issues that bug me. I try to quickly click the x's at the top to close out tabs, and if I do it to quickly it will minimize the application. In the old Safari you could grab any part of the tab to move it, but now if I don't grab the top right it will drag the entire application. And finally, I get a lot of random crashes.
 
XMCP, How can I trust that Iron isn't a German produced data mining web browser like Google Chrome.
 
amanda11 said:
XMCP, How can I trust that Iron isn't a German produced data mining web browser like Google Chrome.
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Here is their suggestion from the FAQ's
"Can i really check that Iron doesn't submit any private data, how you say?

Yes, you can. There are tools like Wireshark, which scan the whole network-traffic. We could not recognize any obvious activity. But you can proof this by yourself.
PS: We also disabled the DNS-Precaching by default, because this could perhaps used by spammers (see this Link)"
 
The new firefox update on Mac is very buggy...constantly crashing if you have a lot of tabs open.


I like Opera the best right now.
 
I second just buying more ram, at the end of the day it'll end up being easier and more effective for you.

Anyone else have serious issues ending up with 25+ tabs open? Either you guys can relate with me or I'm just a messy fuck. I tend to leave the tab open if it's something I wanna take another look at, but after a full day or two, my browsers loaded as all hell. Guess I've just gotta figure out a more methodical way of handling tabbed browsing and organizing my projects.
 
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