The other day I was wondering why my computer got unusually slow. When I opened the task manager and looked through the entries there, I saw what the reason was. Have a look yourself:
Obviously Firefox ate a quite big amount of my RAM, making Windows behave sleepy. I had thought that the Mozilla developers had improved the Firefox memory usage in the Firefox 3 series?!
What are your experiences with browser memory usage?
no problems at all – about 100 000, never higher than 200 000, never lower than 10 000 😛
Here it does that too.. usually 700MB.. now at 775MB.. but I’m with about 20 tabs open.. I don’t suffer too much because I have 4GB of physical memory..
same here but i have 2 gigs ram, allways 1 gig free
I have 2 GB of RAM as well. However 500 MB (25%) for Firefox alone is quite much imo.
FF’s memory usage depends on a lot of things. Tried disabling all add-ons and re-enabling one by one?
How many tabs are opens is ofcourse a big factor too.
That’s why I use Chrome…each tab uses about 6mb-70mb, (your site is using 7Mb…).
With 12tabs opened (8 Msgplus! Forums, 2 your site, 2 youtube…), chrome is consuming only 129mb =)
(Firefox is really memory consuming, lets wait for 3.1)
i normally have about 800mb usage total (out of 1GB physical ram!)