Sunday, November 25, 2007 7:03 PM bojanv

Firefox burned my RAM

I like Firefox. I think, that Firefox is one of the best browsers, i ever used. As web programmer, i used it alot. Well, after researching SubSonic project, Vista starting to work very slow. After fighting my way to the Task manager, i allmost fall from my chair. Firefox used 1.4GB of RAM. WTF? I was so suprised, i allmost spilled my drink. I thought, that ammount of memory is controlled (both Vista and Firefox). The same thing happend with ReSharper, but R# dont go over 0.5 GB speed limit. I had no choice left. I killed the Process.

I had only one Problem with Firefox on Windows Vista, when it flickerd. Then after a while ( and alot of headack ), i find out, that one bookmark must be in toolbar, and everything was back to normal.

Guess, it was just a bug, that i will report to the Firefox and Vista team. They will know, what to do with the Information.

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# re: Firefox burned my RAM

Sunday, November 25, 2007 2:33 PM by IceMan

More like 1,4GB probably, but there's work going on to (finally) improve the crazy memory use of Firefox.

I love Firefox by the way, use it 99,9% of the time.

# re: Firefox burned my RAM

Sunday, November 25, 2007 3:37 PM by 1millionmegabytes

Uh... you are confusing MegaBytes with GigaBytes...

Make sure you get your numbers straight when you report the 'bug', most likely caused by one of those useless extensions that 'everyone must have'.

Nah, I'll stick to IE7.

# re: Firefox burned my RAM

Sunday, November 25, 2007 4:33 PM by bojanv

Thnx for correcting me, i didnt noticed..i fixed it..jup, GB was burned...

@1millionmegabytes: i use IE7 also(especially now with IE7Pro addin), but those 'useless extension' in firefox work pretty fine for me...

# re: Firefox burned my RAM

Monday, December 03, 2007 12:19 PM by Mladen

use Maxthon :) it rocks!