I had been told that after upgrading to Firefox 3, it would only need 15 terabytes of RAM…
Firefox’s memory usage is out of control
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4 responses to “Firefox’s memory usage is out of control”
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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 ;)
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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
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Sorry, but that would be 16.777 exabytes not terabytes (i.e., 16,777,215 terabytes =~ 16,777 petabytes =~ 16.777 exabytes).
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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
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