anyone notice firefox 3.0.10 stalling out and taking up way way more ram than older versions?

[hans007]

i have noticed sice i've had this, occasionally when i have a lot of stuff (and sometimes when its not even a lot) ff end up taking say 700mb, or on my work PCs i've seen it take 1.3 gb of ram.

and then it will stall out and look like its frozen until minutes later it will unfreeze but remain sluggish, only way to fix it is a restart.


i actually downloaded chrome because ff 3.0.10 seems awful.

is it just my system or is 3.0.10 a horrible build of firefox.

 

[Tarrant64]

I haven't noticed any problems like that yet. It does take up 100-180mb randomly though. Nothing new for me.

 

[Ken g6]

I think I saw that once in progress. I did some weird combination of page loads, and it just started allocating more and more ram. It doesn't happen a lot, though.

 

[coldmeat]

I've seen Firefox 2 take up to 1.5GB of ram. Of course, that's after using for almost an entire day of viewing pictures/surfing the web.

 

[pcslookout]

Originally posted by: hans007
i have noticed sice i've had this, occasionally when i have a lot of stuff (and sometimes when its not even a lot) ff end up taking say 700mb, or on my work PCs i've seen it take 1.3 gb of ram.

and then it will stall out and look like its frozen until minutes later it will unfreeze but remain sluggish, only way to fix it is a restart.


i actually downloaded chrome because ff 3.0.10 seems awful.

is it just my system or is 3.0.10 a horrible build of firefox.

Yes. Firefox is a ram hog and there is nothing you can do about it. The only way to fix it is to switch to a different browser.

Anyway who says otherwise is kidding themselves.

 

[IamDavid]

I'm to the point of going back to IE... IE8 is very nice, just doesn't have a real pop up blocker or adblocker! If so, bye bye FF... They're heading in the wrong direction...

 

[bruceb]

It has frozen a few times on me. And sometimes, Yahoo Mail Classic page loads weird. Characters everywhere except in the format it should be in. Not sure if that is a browser problem or more likely, some screw up over at Yahoo

 

[hans007]

3.5 rc1 / pre seems better, though it still has some bugs on some pages and sometimes doesnt shut down right. it does seems a lot faster though.

 

[M0RPH]

FF used to freeze up on me like that pretty regularly. I figured it was due to some extension or combination of extensions. So I made a new profile and was very careful to install only extensions that I absolutely needed. So far it's been stable.

FF's customization is its strongest feature but it can also be its biggest liability. In my experience it becomes unstable pretty easily with the wrong extensions installed. FF really needs the isolation of tabs in separate process like Chrome/IE8, and better protection from unstable extensions.

 

[nordloewelabs]

i've been using it for the last 5 hours without closing it. i have opened and closed several tabs so far and currently i have 3 tabs open. RAM usage is 70Mb right now. everytime i see someone complaining about FF memory footprint, i take a look at mine and it is always below 100MB.

ppl with memory problems should consider a *full* uninstall (manually deleting all "Mozilla" folders left behind) and re-install of FF. and after you re-install, dont over-use extensions. some extensions are obiously gonna use more RAM. memory problems in FF have been addressed since version 3.0.0.

 

[M0RPH]

The problem with FF memory usage is that it creeps up over time. So my 20 tabs may be using 400MB now but after a couple days of browsing I'll still have 20 tabs open but it will be using 600-700MB. And it will keep growing until you restart the browser.

 

[tzdk]

Now you can make your own "collection" of extensions at Add-on site. Even make a fixed link to it. Then people have better chance of understanding memory, or worse, problems. Does not matter they offer 1000s of extensions and dont warn too much, version 3.5 is just as sensitive to not so fortunate mix as 3.x.x - and 2.x.x before that. Besides getting rid of "bad" extensions try always to test with a clean/default profile - if still problem Firefox is to blaim = likely compatibility issues with a certain page, script. Accumulating memory usages, freezes, cpu going crazy, other weirdness follows - it happens.

Actually they have made an extension to control extensions <a target=_blank class=ftalternatingbarlinklarge href="https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11950">https://addons.mozilla.org/en-...irefox/addon/11950</a> will be worth if you dont visit add-on site everyday and have fat Firefox. Most features are avail. on site itself, have to log in though.

If this is best thing ever watch 3 videos here http://vimeo.com/5042012

 

[Mide]

Yup these later versions of FF suck in terms of speed when compared with earlier versions.

 

[WildW]

It's a shame how Firefox lost its way. I remember using it when it was a super-cutdown version of the then-current Netscape/Mozilla, and it was small, lean and quick. . . and then they keep adding junk to it over the years and, surprise surprise, it slows down again.