Yes I thought aboutt eh flash stuff, but even when I have pages open with no flash it uses a lot of ram too.......I have already got rid of chrome for the same reasons. Figured it was not worth having 2 memory hungry browsers installed :-)
Jeremy On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:23 PM, John Bird <johnkb...@paradise.net.nz>wrote: > Firefox does use more ram over time - restart it and you will find the > memory use dives. Its not all Firefox's fault - some is memory leaks, but > most is from Flash and other plugins, so other browsers will do the same. > > Hint later versions are usually better at using less memory! So check your > version > > Each version gets tighter on memory usage, for instance I have had 67 tabs > open for about a day and Firefox is using 380MB memory. I am running the > 3.7 nightly alpha build too (ie the latest bleeding edge) - I have been > following issues like this on the Firefox development newsgroup. > > Chrome also can have similar issues, largely as it uses separate processes > for each tab and this increases memory usage too. > > John > > I know thi sis offtopic, but does anyone know WHY FireFox consumse SO MUCH > RAM ?? > > I have 8 tabs open and its usign over 400MB !! Its complete madness ! I > have started going off Firefox lately. On ym Vista 64bit install at home, I > cant do an F5 to refresh, I have to do a CTRL+F5 ..... grrr > > > Jeremy > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: > unsubscribe > > > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: > unsubscribe >
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