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Firefox on PC Memory issues

By Don Chase - Feb. 29, 2008

Of late, it seems like Firefox is really slowing my PC down. I tend to keep several firefox windows running concurrently and this didn't pose in the past but now days it is slowing my pc down to a crawl. The task manager shows that the firefox process memory usage is ~ 250MB which seems a little high.

I tried IE 7 and for similar usage - this number comes down to 90MB. Can it be that Microsoft has finally built a better browser??

I'd much rather stick with using Firefox - so if anyone has seen this issue or has any ideas/suggestions on how this can be addressed - please let me know

Thanks!


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  1. By Guest Editor on Mar. 02, 2008

    Firefox 2.x has known memory leaks, this issue is being addressed with FF3. IE7's shows a "smaller" footprint in task manager - however since it is a native MS app that may not be necessarily accurate. Try Flock (based on FF2) which seems to control its size a little better.


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  2. By Kiran Manglik on Mar. 03, 2008

    Can't wait for v3.0 to come out. Love the browser but am having similar issues and my 512 MB RAM laptop doesn't take too well to those memory leaks.


    Switch to IE7 for now and wait till the next release. I haven't tried Flock but it definitely sounds interesting as well.


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  3. By an anonymous user on Mar. 04, 2008

    NO! Don't switch to IE7 - hang on to your horses! Ride the storm.


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  4. By an anonymous user on Mar. 04, 2008

    Till FF3, there is also Opera, or Avant, outta here.


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  5. By an anonymous user on Mar. 06, 2008

    I shit on IE 8 (beta). I shit on it when it comes out.


    I'd rather use Lynx than IE.


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