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- tempusrob, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Seems to me that this would just limit the amount of RAM FF can use, rather than actually forcing it to flush its cache. More of a workaround than a fix. But I suppose it's useful for those who want to leave their browser open all day and/or days at a time.
I'm pretty sure the "real" fix will be in FF 1.5, though. - clubgus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Safari, Firefox and Camino on my iBook G4 with 768mb Physical Ram, tends to want to eat up all my RAM taking >34mb chucks of physical memory (this is bad) as i cannot afford to loose too much physical memory, as 1Gb of notebook memory costs $200+ which I can't afford to spend, so the remedy I now use Opera 8 which uses less memory chunks, but many websites 'hate' Opera users so I'm pretty peeved off on this.
- jefflundberg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think I figured out why minimizing the window works. Windows automatically "trims the working set for the process" that is minimized. Makes sense.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;293215 - wzzrd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Lucky you! This is a FIX :)
- BaKeDbEaN, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Seems to help, time will tell.
- teacherG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i dugg it just to keep the awareness up too... I haven't applied the "fix". I'm just going to keep a closer eye on system resources and restart when needed. It is a bummer about FF but I'm sure that it will get addressed. 15 mins of the browser open got me from 20MB to 50MB and its still climbing.
I'd rather drop a gig of mem in before going back to IE.
does anyone know if the Mozilla Suite browser has this issue? - PlayWithFire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1doesn't work, i did this a very long time ago
wanna test it?
close all instances of firefox
go to digg's front page, and open up the task manager (CTRL+SHIFT+ESC is the shortcut for that) and note how much memory firefox is taking up (31MBs for me)
now go thogh the entire page, and middle-click or CTRL-click on all the headlines to open them all up in tabs. Note how much memory gets taken up now (92MBs) in my case. Now, close all the tabs you just opened up. My memory usage only went down to 87MBs.
I normally only keep 1 browswer window open with anywhere from 3 to 10 tabs in it, that i always open and close. I open all the external links from any website in a new tab. In my case, firefox sucks down 100s of MBs in just the first hour of active surfing.
I am keeping my fingers crossed that 1.5 will fix the bug. - datigz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Doesn't work for me - I have over 1GB RAM and Firefox has eaten up 300MB of it in the 10 minutes that it has been open.
- SwiftJ, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I hope it works, Firefox.exe process was using about 350 Megs yesterday!
- redsrule2500, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Okay this crap doesn't work does it?
- WarBicycle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Mine was already set at 65,536.
- ziffel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Sadly, this fix didn't work. I can still easily get FF up to 100+ mb ram used. I only tried the new integer method, and haven't tried uninstalling Flash yet. On another PC in the house, FF will get to over 200 mb used, and bog the PC down (it only has 256 mb to start with) and so FF isn't usable on that one.
- fighto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0PlayWithFire, I did the fix and your test. I had 20 tabs of headlines open with a memmory cosumption of 45mb
- FaNtAsMa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I set my limit to 50k and almost instantly it started using more than that; this fix doesn't work.
- TheChance, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2Mensch, you, Sir, are a tool.
- shakin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0DP Alpha 2 is buggier than Alpha 1, but some of the recent nightly builds are excellent. Just watch out for incompatible extensions, though most are ok if you're willing to extract them and edit the install.rdf file to change the maxversion.
And, yes, the problem is fixed in Deer Park. - digiital, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Nope. My FF is already up to 150Megs.
- sandpaperback, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0datigz said:
"Doesn't work for me - I have over 1GB RAM and Firefox has eaten up 300MB of it in the 10 minutes that it has been open."
Holy crap. I've never had such crazy problems with FF. Admittedly, it's not conservative when it comes to RAM usage, but I've got a gig of RAM installed as well and I don't think I've ever seen FF go over 100MB. I usually keep it open for hours at a time with multiple tabs. - spyres, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0AFAIK, memory lead is fixed with 1.5.
This procedure is old and doesn't really work.
Didn't digg it. - ziffel, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0seand, can you tell me how you removed Flash from Firefox?
- samoscratch, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0hmm was hoping for a fix, I stopped using Firefox due to its habitual memory devouring.
- seand, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Fresh start of FF for me is around 35megs. With 3 tabs open it his 88megs. I toss a flash tab in the mix, I am soaring to about 250megs. I close FF and re-open it, I drop only to about 175.
I removed the flash plugin and amazingly enough, the issue went away. I dont know if this is FF's fault or macromedia's...either way, it needs to be addressed.
is there a bug filed on this yet? - -ColD-, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Doesn't work... =[
- lickmygiggle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0If you have Deer Park Alpha 2, this is aleady in about:config.
- antiwmac, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this was fixed in 1.0.4 right????
- comrade693, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It doesn't work! It can help, but it doesn't solve the problem! 1.5 is supposed to fix it.
- shadearg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Deer Park Alpha 2 is a lot better with memory. Normally Firefox would exceed 150MB in an hour or so, but DP hasn't gone over 50MB and generally stays around 32MB. I even see it dip down to 26 MB often...
- kidlinux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0For those of you who havn't experienced problems - leave Firefox open for a few days and see what happens. I had Firefox open for a week or so, and not only did it consume about 85% of my 512MB of physical ram, it took nearly 900MB of swap!
- dhoefler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0How has this received 250 some diggs? It doesn't work. 1 gig of ram here as well... same thing happened to me that happened to PlayWithFire.
- GiggleStick, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow Jeff Lundberg. That minimize trick really works. I have about 35 - 40 tabs open, and I'm using up 117 MB. So I minimize, and it goes down to like 12 MB instantly. The weird thing is that the total memory usage doesn't seem to reflect any change. In fact, I've noticed that if you add up all the process memory usages, it is much less than total memory usage. I know there's more to it than I understand (commit charge and all that), but I wish I knew more about all this crap, and why my computer needs so much RAM, when my 386 did ok with like 16MB total RAM. Insane!
- blockcipher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Didn't work I'm moving to Opera!
http://my.opera.com/community/party/reg.dml - bacon_skoda, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0this is my number one complain on firefox.
it goes up on every tab opened. after a while it will have 180MB with one or two tabs.
but of course, firefox already have a built in fix.
it'll crash at about 200mb of ram.
Firefox also need to handle flash better, it crash in flash ad heavy sites. - ultimate_ed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm on 1.0.5 right now and I run into this problem all the time. I hadn't seen any chatter on this before this DIGG, so I'm glad to know that it's not just me.
It's unfortunate that this "fix" doesn't work, but I'll digg it anyway to get the awareness up.
Pretty much everything I read about Firefox is all positive, and that's generally been my experience. But, after a few days, it will bring my system to a crawl and often lock up altogether with all the memory that it eats up. - ozziem, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'd switch to opera for sure if only it only had something that worked as well as the Adblock extension does for FF ...
- MikeCampo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Some of you must have some huge problems running Firefox because I'm only using about 20 to 30 MB of memory, before the fix above was applied.
- redsrule2500, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I might just switch to Opera.
- Sublimefly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Uhh is it just me or is this link dead now?
- lickmygiggle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I read somewhere online that the more extensions you have, the more memory Firefox uses. Anyone know if that’s true?? It sortof makes sense...but then again the extensions aren’t that big themselves.
- hypnotiq, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"this is my number one complain on firefox.
it goes up on every tab opened. after a while it will have 180MB with one or two tabs"
I don't use any other tabbed browser except for IE7, and IE7 does the same thing.
Idle, IE7 takes more memory. Not idle, same story. FF is still better, but I hear Opera is better in this area.
You ppl with the memory spikes need to look at other things and stop blaming FF right out of the shoot. Mine never peaks over 50MB and that's like 10 tabs ;-) So obviously something is wrong with _YOUR_ install - motionblur, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I don't know what you guys are doing but I run Firefox with 15 extensions and it rarely goes over 60mb. Even with several tabs open.
I'm running a year old Centrino 1.7 with 1gb ram and xp pro. - hariharan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0When I click it, I get a random page with a stupid poem. SPAM!
- jefflundberg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Firefox definitely has a memory problem with the way it displays pages. The temporary solution (until they fix it) is to minimize the window, and then restore it. Simple. Does this work for anyone else?
- JalenJade, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This "fix" doesn't work... testing the browser.cache.memory.enable - false right now... 36mb and I haven't done a thing right now.. Though it goes up with every character I type. Nada up to 80mb again.. make that 92.. I really hope they fix this with the next release.
- maggoty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I've got about 23 tabs open and its at 108megs and running like a dog. It shouldn't be doing this at all. With opera it doesn't have a spaz attack, or with Maxthon, which does use the IE engine but still, it doesn't crack it either. Firefox's memory usage is shocking to say the least, although I can't do without all these nifty extensions which I dearly love, so I just want them to fix that over anything else.
- Sublimefly, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0opps was just me.
- techguy420, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0how do you remove this once you place it in the about:config ?
- sikosis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Errr ... whats with the crap random page that shows poetry that opens when I click on the link. This should be buried.
- duntuk, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0don't work... i can't believe people digging this...
listen... try going to any myspace page... open 3 tabs, and it'll be over 100mb... - stonebear, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Using Firefox 1.0.6 (moox m3) on W98SE here.
Firefox's memory cache limit is set to 65 megs or so, and memory use only seems to exceed that when the disk cache is full. When I clear the full disk cache, there is an immediate 20 meg drop in memory use. On restart with an empty disk cache, my Firefox adheres to it's memory cache limit.
My guess is that Firefox will use the memory cache to compensate for a full disk cache. Seems like a leak, but perhaps it's not. - JoeTheTech, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0A little test of my own shows that changing "browser.cache.memory.enable" to "False" helps keep the memory problem down. Not the best work around but hey neither was this one.
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