Firefox's memory usage is out of control
I had been told that after upgrading to Firefox 3, it would only need 15 terabytes of RAM...
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September 8th, 2008 at 10:37 am
I consistently have this same problem with FF3. I don't get how their footprint has gotten so out of control since v1, it was amazing back then! Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad and you never really know. Right now I have 9 tabs open at 90M.
Too bad you don't have Windows, then at least you could cycle most of your tabs through Chrome which recycles the memory every time you close a tab. Then again, you're on an Apple so you've got 10x less worry on average than we Windows users anyway ;)
September 8th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
I typically have to restart FF3 a couple of times a day which is worse than FF2 was.
For me, FF3 = FAIL on OS X
11 tabs open - http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3288/2840975504_34f3bd2b8b_o.png
October 21st, 2008 at 1:37 pm
Sorry, but that would be 16.777 exabytes not terabytes (i.e., 16,777,215 terabytes =~ 16,777 petabytes =~ 16.777 exabytes).
;-)
November 5th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
this is not a FF problem, it happens when many applications aquire over 2GBof RAM.
I experience it in Photoshop CS3 on Mac os x 10.4.11, others have the same in Illustrator others with music software, others with Databases e.t.c.
It's definitely a OS or RAM chip problem...
I have no solution for it though.
Good luck