Actually IE is working the best of all of them ! Restarting the FF session did sort the memory our obivously, but it started increasing straight away. Ah well
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 1:40 PM, John Bird <johnkb...@paradise.net.nz>wrote: > Whatever you do don't use IE at the moment! > > (Some people in Google are feeling this acutely!) > > Did restarting Firefox drastically reduce memory use? > > John > ----- Original Message ----- > > *From:* Jeremy Coulter <jscoul...@gmail.com> > *To:* NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List <delphi@delphi.org.nz> > *Sent:* Tuesday, January 19, 2010 12:52 PM > *Subject:* Re: [DUG] Offtopic - but.... > > 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 >> > > ------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > 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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