Firefox 4: fast, powerful, and empowering
DigitalDude
PhotonAttack
5 Firefox windows with 10 tabs each = 50 tabs with all kinds of sites loaded completely.
mem usage by firefox.exe ~ 446MB (see the task manager first process in the pic below)
my total sys mem usage ~ 1.41GB (47% of my 3GB sys memory)
*img576.imageshack.us/img576/4334/firefox5windows10tabsea.th.jpg
@nightmare
show your processes tab with firefox.exe visible.
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mem usage by firefox.exe ~ 446MB (see the task manager first process in the pic below)
my total sys mem usage ~ 1.41GB (47% of my 3GB sys memory)
*img576.imageshack.us/img576/4334/firefox5windows10tabsea.th.jpg
@nightmare
show your processes tab with firefox.exe visible.
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skeletor
Chosen of the Omnissiah
No offence, but
Click on the Process tab.
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Firefox starts up INSTANTLY on my computer. Chrome and Opera take a little longer time. Only a fraction.
NIGHTMARE
ANGEL OF DEATH
a good news ^^ of FF4. I think the memory leak problem will be fixed in a short while.
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I also use firefox with 10-15 tabs but mine goes upto 3.10-3.20 ramin windows 7 but ubuntu uses lower ram even with 15+ tabs .
If you guys are indicating 2~3 GBs of RAM using those numbers here, then you're out of your freaking mind.
No offence, but
Click on the Process tab.
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Firefox starts up INSTANTLY on my computer. Chrome and Opera take a little longer time. Only a fraction.
here is the screen shot
*img99.imageshack.us/img99/9081/53784662.jpg
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DigitalDude
PhotonAttack
btw you are using 64bit win 7. I dunno about that whether that's why you have so much memory usage ?
any 64bit guys can comment on the same ? or is it just some issue with nightmare's pc alone ?
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any 64bit guys can comment on the same ? or is it just some issue with nightmare's pc alone ?
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hellknight
BSD init pwns System V
Lets get away from memory leak for a while, Opera 10.5x is also suffering from memory leaks..
@ a_rahim.. any idea if the new Firefox will sport a new Javascript engine.. Coz this is one area where Firefox is seriously lagging behind the other browsers... I read sometime ago in Ars Technica that Firefox is going to take the Javascript engine from Webkit.. is it true??
@ a_rahim.. any idea if the new Firefox will sport a new Javascript engine.. Coz this is one area where Firefox is seriously lagging behind the other browsers... I read sometime ago in Ars Technica that Firefox is going to take the Javascript engine from Webkit.. is it true??
Firefox dev's are working on an upgraded version of the TraceMonkey engine called Jaegermonkey. It should be much faster. Theoretically -- from what I understand -- it might surpass Chrome.
Currently the JIT JavaScript compilation system in Firefox uses tracing which is supposed to be faster than what other browsers are doing. However when tracing doesn't work Fx falls back to using the good old slow interpreter.
The new engine will use tracing when it can -- whatever Firefox is able to trace it already runs faster than other browsers -- and when tracing fails it will fall back to the Nitro JIT engine from WebKit -- the one used in Safari.
So, I expect awesomeness^2.
asingh
Aspiring Novelist
Yes, I know. What would you suggest...? Just wanted to correct his pretext of some odd numbered GB.
Try a re-install of FF. Am not at home for couple of days, so cannot quote what 64BIT Win7 utilizes. Will get back on this.
Garbage
God of Mistakes...
*www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.htmlurl for FF4? plz!
NIGHTMARE
ANGEL OF DEATH
Actually its happen when i open 15 to 20 tab then slowly slowly RAM uses will be increase but if u open facebook game like fishville that time due the flash it consumes more RAM that day when i take screen shot facebook is not running.If 3 or 6 tab will open so RAM usese is 100 to 120 MB.And yes i m also using the Add-ons.
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khattam_
Guest
Well, I'm not using Firefox as a default browser in my Ubuntu Linux (10.10 Maverick Meerkat 64bit) box is just because of the start up time. I have some of the extensions I need in Chromium and it is good enough for me to use this as my default browser.
I have no problem with Firefox memory consumption as it is using about 350MB when I have opened top 40 sites from *www.100bestwebsites.org/ which seems fair... I opened the same 40 sites in Chromium v6 and the memory usage was about 550MB..
Also, Firefox uses more and more memory as it is kept open for prolonged times based on the available memory, I guess. It uses it more smartly. Chrome on the other hand is snappy and fast and I prefer using it despite of the fact that it may use more memory than Firefox most of the times.
Also, Chromium has poor tab management than Firefox if you have to work with lots of tabs at once that is..
I have FF 3.6.3 and Chromium 6.0.427.0.
I hope FF 4 comes with improved speed and snappiness as Chromium...
I have no problem with Firefox memory consumption as it is using about 350MB when I have opened top 40 sites from *www.100bestwebsites.org/ which seems fair... I opened the same 40 sites in Chromium v6 and the memory usage was about 550MB..
Also, Firefox uses more and more memory as it is kept open for prolonged times based on the available memory, I guess. It uses it more smartly. Chrome on the other hand is snappy and fast and I prefer using it despite of the fact that it may use more memory than Firefox most of the times.
Also, Chromium has poor tab management than Firefox if you have to work with lots of tabs at once that is..
I have FF 3.6.3 and Chromium 6.0.427.0.
I hope FF 4 comes with improved speed and snappiness as Chromium...