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    My Firefox is using 2.1GiB of RAM.

    It's been a bad day.

    The pub beckons in a couple of hours.
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    Re: My Firefox is using 2.1GiB of RAM.

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve View Post
    It's been a bad day.

    The pub beckons in a couple of hours.
    If you want to live dangerously, try 3.6a1 - it's somewhat faster than 3.5. Can't say I've noticed a huge memory load, either. That's on a 2GHz P4. On my main system, it's got 8GB to play with so I'm less likely to notice.

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    Re: My Firefox is using 2.1GiB of RAM.

    I'm on 3.0
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    Re: My Firefox is using 2.1GiB of RAM.

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve View Post
    I'm on 3.0
    I think 3.5 is a bit lighter on memory, but not a lot less bloated. Complaints of scripts taking too long persist on certain sites.

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    Re: My Firefox is using 2.1GiB of RAM.

    How many extensions? Or are you really trying to kill it?

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    Re: My Firefox is using 2.1GiB of RAM.

    I should clarify. I accidentally spat out about 100MB of HTML into it... it didn't like that so much.
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    Re: My Firefox is using 2.1GiB of RAM.

    although it's concerning that people consider 2gb to be within normal expectations for firefox 3.0
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    Re: My Firefox is using 2.1GiB of RAM.

    Quote Originally Posted by Steve View Post
    I should clarify. I accidentally spat out about 100MB of HTML into it... it didn't like that so much.
    The latter then.

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    Re: My Firefox is using 2.1GiB of RAM.

    Quote Originally Posted by IBM View Post
    although it's concerning that people consider 2gb to be within normal expectations for firefox 3.0
    Hasn't Firefox always had a memory leak problem? As far as I care to remember, there were always grumblings about it's memory usage.

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    Re: My Firefox is using 2.1GiB of RAM.

    /wonders how quickly firefox would run under valgrind.
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    Re: My Firefox is using 2.1GiB of RAM.

    I had a problem with a version of Firefox too, but I can't remember which one it was unfortunately

    When I checked, I found that even when you closed Firefox, it would still leave processes running in the background so if you closed, then opened it again, you would have 2 instances appearing in Task Manager, and so on and it would grab all the CPU time as well making the machine run very slow

    At home I am now running 3.5 (not sure of exact build number) and here at work I am running 3.0.13 and don't suffer from this problem

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