Firefox memory drain?

I notice that Firfox 1.0 uses a lot of my memory, about 100K or more at
times, while IE used to use a lot less. Is there something that I can do
to reduce the amount of memory that Firefox uses? And why does it use so
much?

Thanks,
Craig

SCraig

That should read 100,000K.

Craig


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I notice that Firfox 1.0 uses a lot of my memory, about 100K or more at
times, while IE used to use a lot less. Is there something that I can do
to reduce the amount of memory that Firefox uses? And why does it use so
much?

Thanks,
Craig

SCraig wrote:
> That should read 100,000K.
>
> Craig
>
>
> "SCraig" <> wrote in message
> news:rDPKd.17624$ om...
> I notice that Firfox 1.0 uses a lot of my memory, about 100K or more at
> times, while IE used to use a lot less. Is there something that I can do
> to reduce the amount of memory that Firefox uses? And why does it use so
> much?
>
> Thanks,
> Craig
>
>
>
Dunno! Mine is using about 18.000k

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On 2005-01-29, SCraig <> wrote:

>> "SCraig" <> wrote in message
>> news:rDPKd.17624$ om...
>> I notice that Firfox 1.0 uses a lot of my memory, about 100K or more at
>> times, while IE used to use a lot less. Is there something that I can
>> do to reduce the amount of memory that Firefox uses? And why does it
>> use so much?

> That should read 100,000K.

This is a Frequently Asked Question here. Basically, you cannot directly
compare FireFox memory usage with IE's because a substantial (perhaps even
the majority) portion of IE's memory footprint is in shared libraries that
Windows does not count in IE's useage display.

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On 2005-01-29, SCraig <> wrote:

>> "SCraig" <> wrote in message
>> news:rDPKd.17624$ om...
>> I notice that Firfox 1.0 uses a lot of my memory, about 100K or more at
>> times, while IE used to use a lot less. Is there something that I can
>> do to reduce the amount of memory that Firefox uses? And why does it
>> use so much?

> That should read 100,000K.

This is a Frequently Asked Question here. Basically, you cannot directly
compare FireFox memory usage with IE's because a substantial (perhaps even
the majority) portion of IE's memory footprint is in shared libraries that
Windows does not count in IE's useage display.

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So is 100K typical for Firefox?

Thanks,
Craig

Mine currently is using 26,188K.

*** SCraig escribió/wrote (Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:22:31 GMT):
> I notice that Firfox 1.0 uses a lot of my memory, about 100K or more at
> times, while IE used to use a lot less. Is there something that I can do
> to reduce the amount of memory that Firefox uses? And why does it use so
> much?

My Firefox (under Windows XP with 512MB of RAM) uses 16MB with a blank page
loaded. If I open, let's, say, www.microsoft.com, www.mozilla.org and
www.google.com, it uses to 23MB.

As they've already told you, it's almost impossible to know how much memory
Explorer uses, but definitively, 100MB for Firefox seems too much. In any
case, I don't know what you're doing with it when it uses 100MB.


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On 2005-01-30, SCraig <> wrote:

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> "John Thompson" <> wrote in message
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> On 2005-01-29, SCraig <> wrote:
>
>>> "SCraig" <> wrote in message
>>> news:rDPKd.17624$ om...
>>> I notice that Firfox 1.0 uses a lot of my memory, about 100K or more at
>>> times, while IE used to use a lot less. Is there something that I can
>>> do to reduce the amount of memory that Firefox uses? And why does it
>>> use so much?
>
>> That should read 100,000K.
>
> This is a Frequently Asked Question here. Basically, you cannot directly
> compare FireFox memory usage with IE's because a substantial (perhaps even
> the majority) portion of IE's memory footprint is in shared libraries that
> Windows does not count in IE's useage display.

Firefox memory useage will depend on a lot of things: how many tabs you
have open, how complex the pages are, what your cache values are, etc.
It's not something to spend a lot of time worrying about, IMHO.

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*** SCraig escribió/wrote (Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:22:31 GMT):
> I notice that Firfox 1.0 uses a lot of my memory, about 100K or more at
> times, while IE used to use a lot less. Is there something that I can do
> to reduce the amount of memory that Firefox uses? And why does it use so
> much?

My Firefox (under Windows XP with 512MB of RAM) uses 16MB with a blank page
loaded. If I open, let's, say, www.microsoft.com, www.mozilla.org and
www.google.com, it uses to 23MB.

As they've already told you, it's almost impossible to know how much memory
Explorer uses, but definitively, 100MB for Firefox seems too much. In any
case, I don't know what you're doing with it when it uses 100MB.


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Right now I have one version of Firefox open and I'm looking at the Google
newspage. Firefox is currently using 117MB of memory. Since I only have
512 MB of memory that does seem like a lot. Also, occasionally, and for
know reason that I can figure out, Firefox will suddenly jump to about
150MB. If someone could give me some hints about how to reduce the amount
of memory Firefox is using I'd appreciate it. I use Zone Alarm firewall and
virus protection and Ad-aware so I know I don't have any viruses or spammer
programs. I use Windows XP SP-2. So what should I do?

Thanks,
Craig

SCraig wrote:

> "Alvaro G. Vicario" <> wrote in message
> news:y4l1p656g1z8$....
> *** SCraig escribió/wrote (Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:22:31 GMT):
>
>>I notice that Firfox 1.0 uses a lot of my memory, about 100K or more at
>>times, while IE used to use a lot less. Is there something that I can do
>>to reduce the amount of memory that Firefox uses? And why does it use so
>>much?
>
>
> My Firefox (under Windows XP with 512MB of RAM) uses 16MB with a blank page
> loaded. If I open, let's, say, www.microsoft.com, www.mozilla.org and
> www.google.com, it uses to 23MB.
>
> As they've already told you, it's almost impossible to know how much memory
> Explorer uses, but definitively, 100MB for Firefox seems too much. In any
> case, I don't know what you're doing with it when it uses 100MB.
>
>
Right now I have one version of Firefox open and I'm looking at the Google
newspage. Firefox is currently using 117MB of memory. Since I only have
512 MB of memory that does seem like a lot. Also, occasionally, and for
know reason that I can figure out, Firefox will suddenly jump to about
150MB. If someone could give me some hints about how to reduce the amount
of memory Firefox is using I'd appreciate it. I use Zone Alarm firewall
and
virus protection and Ad-aware so I know I don't have any viruses or spammer
programs. I use Windows XP SP-2. So what should I do?

Thanks,
Craig


Sorry, your response is cut and pasted above, you need Quotefix for your
program.


117MB as reported by what (program/utility) as each program/utility may
be different in what it 'sees' as usage.

Um, modern systems assign memory to the programs that require it, its
there to be used, so why worry about if a program uses 117 or 150 MB, as
you state, its not even a third of your total.

A specific web page can easily increase the memory requirements,
dependent on how many images there are on the page. In this day of
broadband, its really not unusual to see sites with 5 or even 20MB of
images. Load a few sites, and your memory can get used up quite quickly.
Windows will allot memory to the program as the program requires it, and
it may add in 'chunks' - i.e. if memory usage is assigned (by Windows)
to be 120 MB then when it hits 118 mb Windows may assign 30mb more in
one go - resulting in a 'jump' to 150MB.

Explorer doesnt report this, becaue many of its caches/utilities are
subsumed within the system as noted.


Memory reporting utilities can be quite misleading. For example (this is
from a Macintosh but it may be similar on Windows):

Using 9x or earlier on the Mac.
Assign 30mb to a program (Browser type)
Open the program and go to 2 web pages
Usage shows 24mb in use.
Close the program, re-assign memory to 48mb
Start program and go to the same 2 web pages
Usage shows 36mb in use!
Do the same with 100mb assigned
Usage goes up to 76mb!

Obviously, the program ISNT using any more memory, because the two pages
are the same!

Okay, the above example is from a non memory management system (and an
old system), in which the user assigns memory, but it does show that
usage is NOT reported accurately at all.


Unless you are getting out of memory messages from Windows, I suggest
you turn off the display showing usage and let Windows manage the memory
for you. Its really quite good at that.

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