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Malak

Malak

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Originally posted by: Nextman916
Why does it really matter? unless you have a dual core cpu so that you can browse when playing games or if your memory limited, but other than that who cares how much mem usage a browser uses?
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It matters because the only difference between FF and Maxthon seems to be the plugin community. If they aren't interested in the plugins, then there's no reason to get FF over Maxthon.

Not to mention games aren't the only thing that takes up memory. Right now I have two processes running that take more memory than Opera, and they are always running.
 
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PseudoKnight

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Originally posted by: RBachman
Originally posted by: Nextman916
Why does it really matter? unless you have a dual core cpu so that you can browse when playing games or if your memory limited, but other than that who cares how much mem usage a browser uses?
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I have a p4b 2.6 and keep a window open while in games :confused: Anyway, it's still got that ram allocated when you're in games. If you close it, obviously, you lose your specific spot in each tab. The most common example for me is looking something WoW-related up on the web while playing, or surfing AT during long flights (Hi, my name is RBachman and I'm a WoW-o-holic :(), but when I tear myself away from MMORPGs long enough to play other games, I still like to have a browser window open. PS, if my previous replies haven't made it clear enough, I do use and very much like FireFox - just being honest here.
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Dude, keeping stuff open during games is your problem, no FireFox's. However, use Opera. It keeps your last known position saved when it's shut down so that even if it crashes you can go right back to where you were.

As for the FireFox vs Maxthon debate, why are we disregarding all the other benefits of FireFox? Nobody switches to the browser for lower memory useage.
 
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us3rnotfound

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Originally posted by: PseudoKnight
Originally posted by: RBachman
Originally posted by: Nextman916
Why does it really matter? unless you have a dual core cpu so that you can browse when playing games or if your memory limited, but other than that who cares how much mem usage a browser uses?
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I have a p4b 2.6 and keep a window open while in games :confused: Anyway, it's still got that ram allocated when you're in games. If you close it, obviously, you lose your specific spot in each tab. The most common example for me is looking something WoW-related up on the web while playing, or surfing AT during long flights (Hi, my name is RBachman and I'm a WoW-o-holic :(), but when I tear myself away from MMORPGs long enough to play other games, I still like to have a browser window open. PS, if my previous replies haven't made it clear enough, I do use and very much like FireFox - just being honest here.
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Dude, keeping stuff open during games is your problem, no FireFox's. However, use Opera. It keeps your last known position saved when it's shut down so that even if it crashes you can go right back to where you were.

As for the FireFox vs Maxthon debate, why are we disregarding all the other benefits of FireFox? Nobody switches to the browser for lower memory useage.
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Well i just never found use for a weather updating extension or blocking a stupid flash ad, so that's why I switched to maxthon. :cookie: for me.
 
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theMan

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i have 4 FF windows open, 1 with 2 tabs. its using 40k. that seems pretty good to me.
 
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Ichigo

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LMAO

Anyone else notice the 3 useless Creative .exe's he's running? The daemon.exe that doesn't need to be there? (daemon works if it's turned off, the virtual drives stay) What about Winamp agent?

So much for saving resources huh?
 
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us3rnotfound

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Originally posted by: Ichigo
LMAO

Anyone else notice the 3 useless Creative .exe's he's running? The daemon.exe that doesn't need to be there? (daemon works if it's turned off, the virtual drives stay) What about Winamp agent?

So much for saving resources huh?
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thanks for your advice, cleaning up house here :)
 
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Hersh

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http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=354828

More than enough people have reported the same memory usage problem with the 1.5.x releases and I am one of them that is currently trying to figure out what exactly is causing the high memory usage.

I've installed a fresh Firefox 1.5 installed after deleting all of another install that would consistently eat up more memory proportional to the time that I left firefox running (not even surfing, just minimizing and maximizing a few times) and even if I had one tab open when it reached the threshold, it would eat up to 150MB of physical ram... ONE TAB! It uses very little when I close it and reopen it. It uses very little for about 30 minutes even if I have 30 tabs open but leave Firefox on for hours, it will eat up my ram.

Mozilla was basically blaming the issue on extensions, corrupted profiles, etc... and have not yet looked into WHY Firefox is having these memory issues. I have just freshly installed Firefox, no extensions, no themes, brand new profile.. so I'll be testing if the memory issue is persists with this fresh install.

I've also tried to go back to IE, nah. I also installed opera but I was disappointed that very little plugins are available for opera and I missed a lot of quick shortcuts I used with firefox... I'm definitely looking forward to Firefox's next release, whatever or whenever that may be.
 
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wallsfd949

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Originally posted by: us3rnotfound
Originally posted by: Alkesh
i have like 15 firefox tabs open in 3 windows, i'm using 35mb.
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Heh, ok. Go here, and watch that increase.

:beer:
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Same crap in IE causes it to jump as much or more as firefox.. it's called a java applet and it is to be expected.

Java = holyramusage batman

Why do you think our Sun boxes that run Java apps have >32GB of RAM?
 
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KingofCamelot

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Originally posted by: LoKe
316,000k. Three tabs open. No video's, no streaming music.
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:shocked: Luckily I've never had a problem with FireFox and memory usage. Must be some fluke in the code that hogs memory, since I've never seen that happen on my computer.
 
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imported_LoKe

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I think it has something to do with refreshing. I'm constantly refreshing and changing pages, though I rarely exceed 5 tabs.
 
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Noema

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Originally posted by: RBachman
Originally posted by: Nextman916
Why does it really matter? unless you have a dual core cpu so that you can browse when playing games or if your memory limited, but other than that who cares how much mem usage a browser uses?
Click to expand...

I have a p4b 2.6 and keep a window open while in games :confused: Anyway, it's still got that ram allocated when you're in games. If you close it, obviously, you lose your specific spot in each tab. The most common example for me is looking something WoW-related up on the web while playing, or surfing AT during long flights (Hi, my name is RBachman and I'm a WoW-o-holic :(), but when I tear myself away from MMORPGs long enough to play other games, I still like to have a browser window open. PS, if my previous replies haven't made it clear enough, I do use and very much like FireFox - just being honest here.
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Same here.

If you are flying from the Undercity to Kargath takes about 17 minutes (!), so I alt-tab back to Firefox a lot. I usually have 4-6 tabs open.

I never notice any performance issues, and I have just an average rig: AMDA64@3200+ 1GB PC3200 RAM.

I didn't know you needed dual core for such trivial tasks as running a browser in the background :confused:

It's not like I'm encoding video or something...
 
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PseudoKnight

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Hhehe.. Opera FTW

BTW, what extensions are you using to get that god-awful mem useage? I never get that with FF.
 
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everman

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I recently read something regarding the supposed Firefox memory hoarding, supposedly that isn't how much is actually being used. Firefox has memory allocated to itself, but when it doesn't need it, and nothing else does either, it's still referenced as being used by FF even though it is actually available to other programs. Basically the reported "usage" is not correct. I wish I could remember where this was from...hm Is this even true?
 
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