Firefox: High Memory Consumption

Jeremy · 15th Feb 2006, 04:11 PM

For those Firefox web browser users who're facing high memory utilization by the application itself, apparently it has been clarified that it's not a memory leak issue but rather an implemented "feature". The good news is, the feature can be tweaked to your preference or simply turned off, hopefully.

Slasdot: Memory Leak Is A Feature?!?!

Firefox: High Memory Consumption
What To Do?

Dashken · 15th Feb 2006, 05:10 PM

Where to set it to 0?

Jeremy · 15th Feb 2006, 07:21 PM

Open Firefox and type "about:config" in the address bar then locate browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers.

Dashken · 15th Feb 2006, 08:04 PM

I set to 3, with 6 tabs opened, I find it quite slow.

1031982 · 15th Feb 2006, 11:47 PM

I find it funny that people here would actually want to lower the memory usage since it's not a leak. Don't most people here have 1GB RAM? If not, I know most have 512MB. (Unless one is running a laptop, then is questionable.)

pfelelep · 16th Feb 2006, 12:33 AM

otherwise, try to disable the extension ADBLOCK, it use A LOT of ressources.

Jeremy · 16th Feb 2006, 12:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1031982

I find it funny that people here would actually want to lower the memory usage since it's not a leak. Don't most people here have 1GB RAM? If not, I know most have 512MB. (Unless one is running a laptop, then is questionable.)

The funny thing is, although I have 768MB worth of memory notwithstanding the page file, my browser crawls when it hits 100MB and above and there would be alot of disk write activities.

zy · 16th Feb 2006, 01:34 AM

jeremy, well .. it uses virtual memory too so i guess it was already using a lot of virtual memory

Adrian Wong · 19th Feb 2006, 02:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by 1031982

I find it funny that people here would actually want to lower the memory usage since it's not a leak. Don't most people here have 1GB RAM? If not, I know most have 512MB. (Unless one is running a laptop, then is questionable.)

I have 1GB of memory in my laptop but even that's really not enough to waste a 100MB of memory on a browser. That's because I don't just have the web browser loaded. At the very minimum, I have 4-5 other applications running at the same time.

I need 2GB.

zy · 19th Feb 2006, 03:33 AM

2GB ? i cant seem to finish 1.5GB unless i open photoshop with loads of photos

15th Feb 2006, 04:11 PM	#1 (permalink)
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15th Feb 2006, 11:47 PM	#5 (permalink)
1031982 Super Active Join Date: 25 Feb 2003 Location: USA Posts: 1,580 Reputation: 285 Rep Power: 9	I find it funny that people here would actually want to lower the memory usage since it's not a leak. Don't most people here have 1GB RAM? If not, I know most have 512MB. (Unless one is running a laptop, then is questionable.) __________________ Running : Gigabyte EP45-DS3R, Intel E7200 C2D, 2GB DDR2 Dual Channel, WD Raptor 74GB, WD 500 GB HDD, ASUS 16X DVD-ROM, LiteOn 16X DVD+/-RW, 1.44 MB Floppy, ATI Radeon HD 3450, Dell 2005FPW, and a SB Audigy2 ZS PRO with Logitech Z5300e speakers.

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19th Feb 2006, 03:33 AM	#10 (permalink)
zy Dead Join Date: 16 Dec 2002 Location: Penang,Malaysia - Buffalo,New York Posts: 12,842 Reputation: 1998 Rep Power: 37	2GB ? i cant seem to finish 1.5GB unless i open photoshop with loads of photos __________________ current: P4-3.2\|P4P800-Deluxe\|512x4-DDR\|NV6600 WD2500KS\|WD5000AAKS\|AD-7191A\|1860NX\|Z2300\|MP470 home (malaysia): P4C-2.6@3.1-StockHSF\|AI7\|256x2-BT-D43\|512x2-DT-D43\|A9600XT-VIVO WD1200JB\|2xWD2500KS\|DRU-800A\|DVD-E616P\|LTR-52327S\|152x\|V.S.4121\|iP1500 laptop: M1210\|T7200\|2GBDDR667\|160GB5K160\|GO7400