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Firefox user (Probably) going back to IE

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I can't believe I've put up with the FF memory leak since ver 2.5. But now I've had it. While I do use a lot of tabs (lets say 30 in two sessions) and start out with 300 MB with that, after a day or so it climbs up to 1.5GB!!! without me using a website-just sitting open and then crashes.

Ive been using IE8 for about a month now and its pretty decent. I'd like to import all of my FF bookmarks to IE. Is there an easy way to do this?
 
Show me a screenshot of your memory usage cuz I really don't buy it.

Also you can use an add-on called Bartab that will remember your tabs but not actually load them until you need them. I'm not sure how much memory this conserves but I never seem to have any problem with excessive memory usage.

And with Bartab installed it's very quick to do a restart of FF if you need to since it won't need to reload all your tabs. Not sure what the big deal is about restarting FF every few days, assuming you needed to... which I don't think you do.

Also try not to install a million crappy extensions... I'm betting that's part of your problem.
 
you can always use opera or chrome too , no reason to go to the most feature less and insecure browser, you'll only be punishing yourself
 
Try Chrome.
It's wicked fast, and the process-per-thread model means that even if one tab starts getting proc/RAM hungry (infinite loops happen) you can just kill that process without affecting anything else.
 
ciproxr said:
you can always use opera or chrome too , no reason to go to the most feature less and insecure browser, you'll only be punishing yourself
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IE8 with protected mode on Vista/W7 is actually very secure. My only reason for not using IE is that its outperformed by the alternatives.
 
M0RPH said:
Show me a screenshot of your memory usage cuz I really don't buy it.

Also you can use an add-on called Bartab that will remember your tabs but not actually load them until you need them. I'm not sure how much memory this conserves but I never seem to have any problem with excessive memory usage.

And with Bartab installed it's very quick to do a restart of FF if you need to since it won't need to reload all your tabs. Not sure what the big deal is about restarting FF every few days, assuming you needed to... which I don't think you do.

Also try not to install a million crappy extensions... I'm betting that's part of your problem.
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This.
 
The only extension I use in FF is the google toolbar. Here is a screenshot of FF running on my XP pro box:
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What is the reason for this? I have also sat an watched the ram usage steadily climb while I am doing nothing.
 
How ironic. Right after I posted firefox froze. Checked tast manager and 1 of my cores on my Q6600 was pegged out. Had to close the process. That's never happened. lol.
 
Try Chrome for a while and see if you like it. It's a lot more slimline than Firefox, and you can get a lot of the same extensions that you can get on Firefox.
 
I love FF. Yeah, there is the occasional blip here and there, but I only use the Adblock extension. Normally, I don't go over 10 tabs and usually have 5-8 tabs open. I did check my ram usage and it's hovering just a tad over 150mb which is higher than I'd like, but I have 6gb of ram so it's not like I don't have the resources. If anything I'd have to say my problems would be bandwidth allocation in that bittorrent is killing my router. That will probably be my next upgrade. That and I've tweaked the heck out of FF and it is blazingly fast.
 
Try Maxthon. It's IE-like at its core (trident based) but it handles tabs as well as or better than firefox. It's also got gestures built-in without having to install an extension. I've had it open all day, with 16 tabs currently open, and I'm sitting at about 300mb of memory usage.

Maxthon can also import Firefox favorites, and export them as an IE favorites folder. So you could actually use it just to do the conversion.
 
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