Acreo Aeneas

A screenshot of FF 3.x eating well over 600 MB of RAM on my system. Thereby moving my RAM usage from 33% to over 60% at the moment.

I discretely remember reading several tech sites reviewing FF3 and saying that it eats only 200 MB of RAM. Bogus. I call it a lie!

So there ya go. Firefox eating over 3 times the advertised amount.


P.S. I do have 26 open tabs right now. That number usually jumps between 14 and 48.

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Apophis

Naturally they can't calculate your particular usage based on having an excessive number of tabs open and unknown plugins running. Those benchmarks are usually made based on basic use.

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Long Bow

Uhm yeah, maybe close a tab or two!

That is a boat load of memory usage though, just need to run X64 and more ram - problem solved

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ScratchMonkey

Only 26 tabs? You amateur!

I routinely go to the TG "New Posts" page and open every thread that looks interesting to me in a separate tab. Then I mark everything read. Then I go across the tabs, reading and responding. Rinse, repeat.

That's not counting tabs for other forum sites, for games, and the ones I open to follow links on those pages without closing the linking page (so I can get back again to comment).

Oh, and "discreetly"? (I think you meant "distinctly".)

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msdz

What on Earth does anybody need more than a few tabs open at a time for??
I usually at most have 4 tabs open and then it is only so I can double check what I may be reading from a different page.
No wonder your RAM is getting used up.

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Bamboo

While reading this thread, I have 7 tabs open and am using 201,332 K of memory. I did have like 20 tabs open a few moments ago when I was replying to the DVR webcam thread while I was looking through my bookmarks.

I closed out my Netvibes homepage and memory dropped to 185,143 K.
Just for fun I opened up the same tabs in IE and it is using 195,700k.

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ScratchMonkey

"640K ought to be enough for anybody." (often wrongly attributed to Bill Gates)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Bill_Gates

Of course, having multiple Windows is equally foolish. Let's just go back to one application at a time, taking up the full screen. And instead of having thousands of files on a disk, let's just have a few.

Tabs are a way to organize windows, and windows are a way to do more than one thing at a time. I typically have at least 4 tasks going at a time (often much more) and each task requires rapid switching among many documents.

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Reaperassault

I have 7 tabs right now at 81,000K and 2GB of extra ram right now.

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msdz

Just for the heck of it I opened IE7 and then continued to open tabs at that moment I have 37 tabs open an viewing different pages of all sorts and only using 429,848 K. As I browse and do muiltiple resfreshes on different pages and open sifferent sites as quickly as I can I seen it go from 429,848 K down to 407,300 but the CPU usage jumped from 0 to 14% briefly.
Seems like FF3 is still more demanding than IE7 on my computer and still opens pages more slowly than IE7. Don't get me wrong, I have been using FF3 quite a bit since my experience with IE8b2 and like it a lot but still it seems like it is far slower at opening a lot of sites as quickly as IE7 and definitely slower when more tabs are opened compared to IE7.

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Bamboo

Funny you should post this today. Look what just came up in my RSS feed:

How Much Memory Does a WebPage in a Tab Take Up in Web Browser?

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Spulat

I know, it doesn't take into account how much larger webpages are these days. I wonder if the x64 "Minefield" build handles things any differently. Maybe not? Don't know I installed it but haven't had the time to use it yet due to my desktop crashing unexpectedly.

I think it's maybe more cause for alarm and "ah-ha!" if the memry usage just kept creeping up up up showing that they didn't fix the memory leaks after all.

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Trooper

maybe you need to be more concerned with the fact you have 70+ process running...get that down to like 30 then worry about fire fox

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that sounds like a good idea trooper.
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kevlarorc

I just opened 27 tabs and tried loading stuff in each one as fast as I could and could only get it to 131mb.

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kittykatnub

I just opened 83 tabs in xp home 32 and got it up to 243 801
Maybe it isn't very good with vista?
When I closed all those tabs though it only went down to 181 452 so I guess if you do a lot of tab opening and closing it can stack up like that. It seems FF doesn't get rid of unneeded memory very well.

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Tonk

i usually have 20 tabs open at startup, and gain another 10 more or so during my browsing. and i run about 1.5-2.5 GB because i dont use a swap file and i have 8gb ram

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