Comments on: Firefox 3 Hogs Memory Like Crazy

By: anonymous

anonymous — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 21:29:00 +0000

Right. A year later, we got FF 3.6 and guess what – things got WORSE !

By: Peter Palfrei

Peter Palfrei — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 08:53:34 +0000

I've always had issues with firefox memory management. It could be that memory leakage depends on the system's hardware architecture. I'm running an AMD microprocessor and Firefox is quite slow. I've had the best speed results with Opera and Chrome but Google's browser lags a bit more yet not as much as Firefox.

By: AGH

AGH — Sun, 23 May 2010 08:16:40 +0000

Firefox 3.6.3

1)
Time open: 36 hours
Memory usage: 2.4 GB
CPU: 38%

2)
Time open: 3 hours
Memory usage: 418 MB
CPU: 10%

Switching tab, moving mouse, typing etc all slowed down to an unusable level (5 secs or more for anything to take effect). Goddamn.

By: bluesherpa

bluesherpa — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 18:50:47 +0000

OSX Snow Leopard, right now Firefox is using 1,011MB of ram, 39 threads, and 10% cpu… There’s one window and 4 tabs – how annoying is that. It always eventually happens and the solution is always to close all windows, restart firefox and give it another two or three days before it happens again.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:18:34 +0000

so maybe i’m a “power user” of firefox. I’ve got 36 tabs open. i’m at about 375MB of RAM used. That was cold booted out of the fire fox restore, because it was just recent at 1.5 GB. So how could the exact same browser windows now around 375 MB previous have taken up 1.5GB? it’s one thing i don’t like about it.. but i’d never dare 36 internet explorers open.. so it’s the best of the world we live in.

By: non

non — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:05:28 +0000

firefox has a poor memory management. the memory continues to grow when its idle? my one went upto 1Gb, computer was slow and firefox crashed.
Going to switch to chrome.

By: Rich Menga

Rich Menga — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:04:31 +0000

You win 2.1 ePoints, however I don’t know where you could redeem them.

By: Lonehwolf

Lonehwolf — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:35:08 +0000

I think I win the cake ( though didn’t read all entries) at 1.1Gig of memory, going as high as 1.3gig lol.

Continuous freezing of it, can’t do shit xD Well, I went ahead and removed half the extensions I had, some which I admit might have been memory hungry, but hot damn…

Screenie for the heck of it lol: http://yfrog.com/13memusagep

What do I win? What do I win?

By: Eli J

Eli J — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:06:31 +0000

Well, without Google Toolbar running FF has not exceeded 185K of memory, even after running continuously for 2 days. Outlook over three days is up to 286K and 4 Chrome Processes total about 130K. I expect modules to consume much memory since my box has 6GB and Vista/Win 7 tries to make use of it all, so nothing running now is unsatisfactory.

I have also run quite a few Youtube videos in FF and it doesn’t seem to be suffering from a memory leak now. I’ll try to add Google Toolbar back in tomorrow to confirm how the memory usage pattern differs but Google seems to be a major memory culprit.

By: Matt B

Matt B — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:58:58 +0000

@Andy M. I understand your intent you are conveying to me. This would make utmost sense due to the install of the ad blocker plus blocks almost ALL the flash banners and ads. I also have flashblock add on due to I did notice awhile back that a flash page will keep cycling forever. I thank you for your input. I have to tell you flash is used much too heavily on the web anymore, just as elife has too many darn exclamation points. Kudos to you and continue the threads with your input.