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- ranon78, on 08/28/2009, -6/+208starts faster.
- spookyttws, on 08/28/2009, -7/+173Is there an option to stop Firefox from using 400,000K of memory just statically looking at Google's homepage, because that would fix the only issue I have with Firefox.
- Ajajadude, on 08/28/2009, -4/+121How in the hell do you manage to take the memory footprint into the gigabyte range?
- itisme1760, on 08/28/2009, -12/+129A feature to destroy IE 6 users!
- sisco510, on 08/28/2009, -6/+107Firefox's built in memory leak feature. /s
I have been using Firefox since 1.0.5 and it still happens. - mrpunman, on 08/28/2009, -2/+74I vote for better memory management
That is all - Sneezyx, on 08/28/2009, -2/+54This might seem trivial, but it's been buggin' me since I started using da Fox: Since this is such a tab-based browser, why, when you right-click a link, is Open Link in New Window _above_ Open Link in New Tab. Shouldn't it be the other way around?
- Gizza, on 08/28/2009, -1/+52Doesn't everyone just middle-click to open in a new tab though? I know I would go bat-***** insane right-clicking every time I wanted to open a link in a new tab.
- Bigbro69, on 08/28/2009, -5/+55Looking at a 1:1 scale picture of your mom.
- winry, on 08/28/2009, -1/+31Just make a better right click menu.
For example:
Search with...[ search engines list]
Also creating search engines should be easier too, like in Opera, I know, there are extensions for that.
Translate to...[babelfish or google translate language menu]
Select text + Goto Web adress ala Opera and Chrome
Right click on image -> reload image
There are a lot of extension for most of this but I think its time to make it part of the default browser - sisco510, on 08/28/2009, -1/+30I've reached as high as 570k with a few tabs open, never knew what caused it. Basic extensions, adblock, no script, and flashblock but still leaked.
- robruiz, on 08/28/2009, -0/+29Just make it run fast like it used to and we can call it a day.
- inactive, on 08/28/2009, -0/+25I wonder if Mozilla's dev team ever browses through comments like these?
- inactive, on 08/28/2009, -2/+27Seriously. Chrome can't even field a hundredth of the features that Firefox offers (albeit mostly through plugins) and yet I only ever use Chrome to browse with any more - the only use Firefox sees is for using Firebug as a development tool. It's worth ignoring a couple of banner ads and flash plugin crashes to be able to browse NOW, not in 8 seconds when FF3 finally gets around to loading.
- DaviDTC, on 08/28/2009, -0/+23a 3 year old account that just decided to start spamming?
- praisethelard, on 08/28/2009, -3/+24How? I have 2 tabs open with Digg.com on both and ABP and Web Developer, and I'm only at 115MB of memory usage.
- sisco510, on 08/28/2009, -1/+22Agreed.
- sisco510, on 08/28/2009, -0/+21Some kind of sleeper account?
Blend in for 3 years then begin the spamming. - rpieszak, on 08/28/2009, -0/+20Trivial? Yes
Genius? Quite possibly
If they ever make this change, I know it'll take me forever to break the habit and I'll be opening links in a new window for a while. - inactive, on 08/28/2009, -0/+19addons - just a vanilla install will use very little resources, but once you start adding on a bunch of crap addons it gets out of control. I don't understand why you got buried and no one answered your question - digg can be a bunch of ***** dicks.
- inactive, on 08/28/2009, -1/+16I don't think it hits everyone - but the fact that it effects some people should be incentive enough to fix it for everyone.
- bcronos, on 08/28/2009, -0/+14Using less than a gig of RAM and 100% CPU load...
- Gizza, on 08/28/2009, -0/+14Put your PC to sleep at the end of each day and never close Firefox. It will very quickly get up to the gigabyte range. May be a bug relating to sleep, or just something to do with it being open for so long. I do think I notice it more when I've put my computer to sleep compared to leaving it on over night though.
- topcat5, on 08/28/2009, -2/+15It's the crappy Adobe Flash that gets stated on almost every webpage now and which doesn't do a good job of going away when it is done. Oh and it leave a bunch of cookies on your machine that you don't even know about.
- VulgusPecum, on 08/28/2009, -2/+146) Make it so that people will use it not only because it has extensions when they really want to use Chrome.
BAM!
7) As for memory consumption, stop installing 200+ ***** extensions, it's a browser, not a Pimp My Ride West Coast Custom car and they usually leak like *****.
BOOM! - anaesthetica, on 08/28/2009, -0/+12Yes they do. For instance, Asa Dotzler is a user on Digg. http://digg.com/users/asadotzler
If you friend him, you'll see all the Digg stories about Firefox that he diggs up, and all the comments in those stories that he diggs up. - rif42, on 08/28/2009, -4/+15I really want Mozilla to get Thunderbird 3 ready. It has taken very long time. Until that is done I really do not need any new features in Firefox.
- j035u5, on 08/28/2009, -0/+11not on a laptop
- ultrafez, on 08/28/2009, -1/+12^ unless you have Synaptics touchpad drivers, which lets you program it so when pressing both buttons at once it middle clicks.
- electronicdream, on 08/28/2009, -1/+11And there I was, thinking my computer was slow...
- inactive, on 08/28/2009, -1/+11Actually, I'm going to disagree with you there - Firefox doesn't need more features. It needs better performance - it needs to be faster and more stable. Extensions can add virtually (ha ha) any feature you could ever conceive of, but to make something like that a default option, you just start adding bloat. the power-user market doesn't generally appreciate the addition of features that they don't see themselves using.
- MrJagil, on 08/28/2009, -0/+10Tab isolation
Faster Boot/shutdown time
Tabs on top
Fix memory leaks
Dandy stop/refresh/go-all-in-one-button
As for Digg:
FIX ***** JUMP BOX - HeavyWave, on 08/28/2009, -1/+11I once reached 2 GB with a few weeks of using Chrome and about 100 tabs opened.
- colto, on 08/28/2009, -2/+12I reach into 800k+ every few days. Adblock+, Weave, Foxytunes, Firebug, GreaseMonkey, IETab, Stylish, YASS, Download Statusbar, FastDial, Colorfultabs, and a few others. I have quite a few extensions but most of them are pretty lightweight and are normally not in use. At 223k right now after a day's use.
In my experience it is mainly the content being viewed/loaded. PDFs, streaming video, flash, etc. seem to jack up the memory count very quickly across multiple systems. It seems to me that the inherent solution is to rebuild Firefox from the ground up. Yes it will cause some problems and break a few things, but the old bloated code is just not efficient at all. I think a more Chrome like infrastructure with Firefox's extensibility would go a long way. - withoutasol, on 08/28/2009, -0/+9opera seems to have all those features without the bloat
- svivian, on 08/28/2009, -0/+9The stupid thing is, Opera manages to store full pages in memory, including all your closed tabs, and NEVER reaches that level of memory usage.
- adasha, on 08/28/2009, -1/+10or the users (oh snap)
- Ugotownedo, on 08/28/2009, -3/+12I've got a tab of Facebook and a tab of this thread open and I'm only at 98MB. I've been browsing for a while now. I've never really had any issues with Firefox's memory management. Though if others do, then of course they should fix it.
- bkraj, on 08/28/2009, -0/+8Memory usage and crash isolation would be phenomenal(especially with the random freeze issues I've been getting opening pdfs with fox-it).
- inactive, on 08/28/2009, -0/+8ever heard of a torrent?
- Walwyn, on 08/28/2009, -0/+8Just CTRL+Left Click it or Click it with the Scroll Button
- serif69, on 08/28/2009, -2/+9Or looking at a 1:2 scale picture of yours.
- ralphlindberg79, on 08/28/2009, -0/+7Want an easy access to the temporary download folder (like Temporary Internet Files folder in case of IE) so that the streaming video and audio files (.mp4, .flv etc.)could be picked from there easily.
- Ajajadude, on 08/28/2009, -3/+9Yeah, but, I've never managed to break the 200K mark. Other than having dozens of tabs open, I don't see how anyone could go that far.
- Sacrifice, on 08/28/2009, -0/+5I customize my context menu and get rid of the "Open in New Window" altogether using this add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/710 - Myztry, on 08/28/2009, -1/+6Agreed. Ads actually don't bother me. I don't even really notice them anymore. If I do, then it's because they are obnoxious and tends to make me blacklist the site rather than the browser.
- antdude, on 08/28/2009, -0/+5Waiting for SeaMonkey v2 to be finally released from betas. ;)
- AngryDeuce, on 08/28/2009, -1/+6Yeah I think we can all agree that the obscene amounts of memory being used needs to be fixed pronto...
- MrJagil, on 08/28/2009, -3/+8dugg for lolz
- svivian, on 08/28/2009, -0/+5I gave up on Thunderbird and am now using Gmail for my POP3 account. With Chrome's "application shortcut" feature it just works fantastically. And of course it's accessible from virtually any other computer.
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