Is there anyway to prevent firefox from constantly eating up RAM and taking up 500% of your CPU's processing? I know this has been a long-standing problem with firefox, but has anyone figured out a solution that even kinda works?
I can only guess they have some serious memory leaks...which can only be solved by someone going in and using a delete command on some dynamically created objects.
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Reducing_memory_usage_-_Firefox However, I don't know if it works or not because I stopped trying to fix that problem even though I do get ridiculous numbers (200+ MB) from time to time mainly because I have more than enough RAM to compensate.
Bring up Windows Task Manager (ctr+alt+delete) From Windows Task Manager select Processes. Find Firefox executable, right click it, then set priority to below normal or low.
got this from another site. it may help. Open a new tab. Type “about:config” without quotes into the address bar and hit enter/click Go. Right-click anywhere, select New, then Integer. In the dialog prompt that appears, type: browser.cache.memory.capacity Click OK. Another dialog prompt will appear. This is where you decide how much memory to allocate to Firefox. This depends on how much RAM your computer has, but generally you don’t want to allocate too little (under 8MB), but if you allocate too much, you might as well not do this. A good recommended setting is 16MB. If you want 16MB, enter this value into the dialog prompt: 16384 (Why 16384 instead of 16000? Because computers use base-12 counting. Thus 16 megabytes = 16384 bytes. Likewise, if you want to double that and allocate 32MB, you’d enter 32768.) Click OK to close the dialog box, then close all instances of Firefox and restart. If your Firefox still uses the same amount of memory, give it a few minutes and it should slowly clear up. If that fails, try a system reboot.
since we're on the subject of firefox, anyone have this problem: whenever i play an embedded video, i can't switch tabs. i have to pause the video to do so.
I avg 175-225MB because I usually have 5 or 6 tabs running. I figure it's almost like 5 Firefox windows running at the same time.
Speaking of FireFox. I've been having a problem with the new version. Every now and then, FF freezes when I click reply on the BBS. (it dies and needs to restart.)
Opera is an excellent and stable alternative to FF... I use it whenever I need to do research or important work that cant just crash.
