Comments on: Firefox is eating my memory

By: derby

derby — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 02:58:37 +0000

When I notice FF3 responding slowly to forms and copying text, lo and behold its using ~1GB of Ram out of 2GB. The only solution albeit crappy is to close FF and restart.

I too cannot browse without my add-ons.

By: Neil The Guru

Neil The Guru — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 12:58:39 +0000

Hey Yeah thats make Me Angry Alot,
Some times It crashes Alot,
I use Firefox Ultimate optimizer,
Google it you can find it,
it works like a charm,
Or Get Faster Fox Heard Its good,
By the You Have A Very Good Theme Loved It

By: Dean

Dean — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:21:07 +0000

I also have LOADS of tabs open :)
Ive used a gig of RAM before as well.
I also like me add ons ;)

By: IG88

IG88 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:57:07 +0000

If you are like me, then Firebug is one of the biggest culprits. I have found that I have to suspend Firebug in order to keep my Firefox from stammering. Like you I keep a lot of tabs going, and I have found that if I keep Firebug running and I use it, then it starts to chow down on memory.

For me, Firebug automatically runs for every site. I think it should be disabled and only work on sites you tell it.

By: GlamourGaby

GlamourGaby — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 10:04:35 +0000

I don't think Flock has the same add-ons. I am dead without them.

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:14:37 +0000

hey why don't you try flock it has all the function which firefox has and its much faster.
BTW nice themes on ur sites

By: Pedro

Pedro — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:53:37 +0000

You could create different profiles inside Firefox.

For eg

1 Personal Profile with passwords, bookmarks and other kind of stuff that you only use for personal motives.

and a 2º profile for Work, where you`ll got the same stuff i said but only those you use to work

For create Profiles, and choose one.

On the desktop shortcut, add -p
"\Program Files\Mozzila\Firefox\Firefox.exe" -p

Kinda that

By: baloot mx

baloot mx — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:48:08 +0000

just use google chrome if you want a regular surfing web.
but i love more mozilla because of their useful plugin called, firebug; only 4 website designer this plugin is useful.

cheers from malaysia blogger.

By: GlamourGaby

GlamourGaby — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:48:53 +0000

I already had those setting in place. Except the nglayout.initialpaint.delay which was set to 250 for some reason.
I have FasterFox installed to it tweaked my settings for me.
My huge amount of memory usage is definitely from the fact that I have a lot of plugins. But since, like I said, I can't get rid of them, I have to just wait for a version that will live in perfect symbiosis with the plugins.

By: Fadli

Fadli — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 11:01:04 +0000

u can follow this trick :
1. Type "about:config" into the address bar and hit return. Scroll down and look for the following entries:
network.http.pipelining,
network.http.proxy.pipelining,
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests
2. Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading.
3. Alter the entries as follows:
4. Set "network.http.pipelining" to "true" by double-clicking it.
5. Set "network.http.proxy.pipelining" to "true" by double-clicking it.
6. Set "network.http.pipelining.maxrequests" to 8 by double-clicking it. This means it will make 8 requests at once. There is no point setting it higher then 8 as it is capped at 8 max. [The default value for this setting is 4]
7. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it "nglayout.initialpaint.delay" and set its value to "0". This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives.
8. If you're using a broadband connection you'll load pages MUCH faster now!