I have had intermittant

NickD — Fri, 29 May 2009 23:47:01 +0000

I have had intermittant problems where firefox has chewed up my two gigs of DDR
but only very seldomly, I think firefox is still by far the best browser on the planet. When you look at the wealth of addons and its customisability, master password feature (godsend) and the fact you can back up all your bookmarks, passwords, cookies and everything with mozbackup, and then import them with one click after doing a fresh O/S install, I can forgive it for chewing a bit of ram from time to time.

Yes me also facing the same

articlemaster — Sat, 23 May 2009 15:36:38 +0000

Yes me also facing the same problem.
Firefox is using a lots of memory of my PC. But its the best browser for me so i just cant think of not using it..
Try to include less addon.. and thats what i do..

I think as any product gets

Xtron — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:33:23 +0000

I think as any product gets older, it gets bigger and usually loses it's key feature that makes it so popular. FF will one day be like IE, but we'll have a new browser by then. It's how things work =P

I have 4gb of ram in my system (overkill, I know) so it runs fine for me.

My FF eat 88 RAM... not bad

Brutal — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 01:10:04 +0000

My FF eat 88 RAM... not bad i think, and Opera take 80 RAM.

I use Firefox because it is

gainza34 — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:54:00 +0000

I use Firefox because it is customizable - I use themes, extensions, bookmarks toolbar. When I open more than 20 tabs it gets slow but I don't usually open more than five. I also have problems with opening URLs containing cyrillic letters. For URLs like that I use IE. I use both IE and FF when designing websites.

haha my firefox uses around

ngsupb — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:50:51 +0000

haha my firefox uses around 250 mb or ram. But it is ok since I have a lot of tabs opened at the same time. Except of this haven't seen any other problems with FF, it just rocks.

Well, Firefox 2.xxx was but

greg — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 12:11:00 +0000

Well, Firefox 2.xxx was but Firefox 3 is fine.

With any version of FF2 mine loaded with a min of about 40mb memory usage, then from there as the day went on, my opening and closing tabs, it gradually increased.
Due to the issue where when you closed tabs it didn't clear all related cache (etc) for that tab, the memory didn't decrease fully when you closed tabs.
I.E. if opening a new site in a new tab used a further 2mb, closing that tab only removed say 1.5mb, leaving 0.5mb left (figures are for examples only, don't whip me for inaccuracy)

After a days browsing I often had FF with over 200mb of memory usage.

FF3, which I have used for a week now, opens with about 22mb, and I haven't yet managed to get it past 110mb, and that was leaving the same one open for 3 days, opening and closing hundreds of sites/tabs.

Seriously, FF3 is sorted and worth getting if you haven't already made the switch!

fasterfox.mozdev.org

jk090 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:41:53 +0000

fasterfox.mozdev.org

its pretty memory intensive

jk090 — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:40:44 +0000

its pretty memory intensive but u can download a lite version

I have never had any

ms2134 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:45:36 +0000

I have never had any problems with it although i only have two tabs open, ...

One is this and the other is www.starpulse.com and my process for firefox is adveraging around 120,800KB Mark.

I have nothing else open and my windows taskbar is virtually empty.