Firefox is a Memory Hog (150+mb)

I'd give up gigabytes of ram to be free of google chrome!

Dave

paddywanpeep wrote:


Your SSD is basically memory modules just like RAM, how is that saving wear and tear on something that has no moving parts???

Not at all- the flash memory used in SSD drives have a finite number of read/write cycles. They are fast, but they do wear out.

Nowadays RAM is cheap.
Running things in RAM saves wear and tear from your hard drives, especially SSD.
I put caches, temporary files in RAM and my PC run much faster. Once I opened 20+ tabs in both Firefox, Chrome and never managed to hit 4G RAM.

Your SSD is basically memory modules just like RAM, how is that saving wear and tear on something that has no moving parts???

It can depend on which and how many extensions you have installed, all of which use memory. Or if you're running any media in your browser, such as flash content or movies. Your memory usage can jump.

My Firefox is currently using 340M of memory.

Windows 7 had a complete re-engineer of its memory management. And more tweaks were done with Windows 8. Inactive programs not being used get pushed to the background and while they are allocated the memory shown in Task Manager, they aren't actually using it until they are brought back to the front.

How is your PC running? Is it sluggish? Are mouse movements jerky? If its running fine, I wouldn't "task watch". Just use it and enjoy it.

433 meg for my FF. So what. It's my "daily driver" and I have lots of ram.

All I know is i used to use MS IE and it would lock up on me two or three times a day. Went to FIREFOX and it just keeps running smooth for me. I tried to use CHROME which I really like but it was always having some issues so finally just went back to FIREFOX...

I'm running DUAL SCREENs here so have to say I probably made a WIN 8 machine out of my XP PRO as I have several TABS opened all the time haha...

Roy Ken

Yes, Firefox is a memory hog, but it isn't as bad as it used to be. Mine is sitting at 300 meg. but I do have 7 tabs open. They have fixed the worst of the memory leaks so at least it doesn't lock up like it used to.

Seems I read once that memory leaks are caused by poorly, or sloppily, written code. Dunno, I've never coded any to speak of.

GordonThree wrote:
I don't find 150mb to be a "hog" given the level of bloat in todays apps.

I agree 150mb is "CHUMP CHANGE" now days.

Larry

Nowadays RAM is cheap.
Running things in RAM saves wear and tear from your hard drives, especially SSD.
I put caches, temporary files in RAM and my PC run much faster. Once I opened 20+ tabs in both Firefox, Chrome and never managed to hit 4G RAM.