LiquidStool Posted February 1, 2010 Member ID: 508 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 4 Topic Count: 140 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 472 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 38 Achievement Points: 5787 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/25/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 7, 2016 Birthday: 01/20/1969 Share Posted February 1, 2010 how much of the system memory should firefox typically use? i'm not downloading/upping anything, in fact i'm on this site and taskmanager shows that firefox is using 6948652k of memory. I think that's a bit excessive, especially given that i'm transcoding a dvd file using Nero 9 and that's only using 2011021k. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullProof Posted February 1, 2010 Member ID: 423 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 14 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 159 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 2 Achievement Points: 948 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/17/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 16, 2012 Birthday: 08/28/1983 Share Posted February 1, 2010 Yea that sounds lil high mine only uses 126k maybe lil more or less i know a while back firefox had a memory leak but thought that was fixed. Are you sure you are on the most current version. If so maybe try uninstalling it and reinstall it Also it could be an addon causing the issue you should try and run it in safemode and see if the memory issue still happens. If not then most likely it is one of the addons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrFeelgood0530 Posted February 1, 2010 Member ID: 1072 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 2 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 18 Content Per Day: 0.00 Reputation: 0 Achievement Points: 120 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 01/31/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Never Birthday: 05/30/1991 Share Posted February 1, 2010 I think 126kb is low... but liquid, that does sound high. In my task manager firefox usually shows about 27,000k. But I prefer to use chrome anyhow.I would just reinstall and or clear the cache/cookies, maybe even try out google chrome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullProof Posted February 1, 2010 Member ID: 423 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 14 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 159 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 2 Achievement Points: 948 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/17/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 16, 2012 Birthday: 08/28/1983 Share Posted February 1, 2010 lol well i meant 126,000k just didnt add the zeros sorry about that That is when im using it most of the time it idles between 50,000 and 85,000 guess depending the last restart i had Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidStool Posted February 1, 2010 Member ID: 508 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 4 Topic Count: 140 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 472 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 38 Achievement Points: 5787 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/25/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 7, 2016 Birthday: 01/20/1969 Author Share Posted February 1, 2010 cynic it could be an addon causing the issue you should try and run it in safemode and see if the memory issue still happens. If not then most likely it is one of the addons. thanks for that man - how do i run it in safe mode? i assume you mean FF not windows........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidStool Posted February 1, 2010 Member ID: 508 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 4 Topic Count: 140 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 472 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 38 Achievement Points: 5787 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/25/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 7, 2016 Birthday: 01/20/1969 Author Share Posted February 1, 2010 DrFeelgood0530 try out google chrome. hey doc, is chrome any good? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
live-evil Posted February 1, 2010 Member ID: 267 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 2 Topic Count: 24 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 55 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 19 Achievement Points: 538 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/06/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 12 Birthday: 08/14/1961 Device: Windows Share Posted February 1, 2010 I'm using firefox 3.6 and taskmanager is saying it is using about 80,000k, you could maybe try that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidStool Posted February 1, 2010 Member ID: 508 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 4 Topic Count: 140 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 472 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 38 Achievement Points: 5787 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/25/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 7, 2016 Birthday: 01/20/1969 Author Share Posted February 1, 2010 live-evil I'm using firefox 3.6 and taskmanager is saying it is using about 80,000k, you could maybe try that. just updated to 3.6 mate. Checked task manager and it says it's using an average of 140000k - significantly down but almost double what i think is normal. Could it be so high cuz i'm using 64bit? Gonna check out the addons as well for a memory leak, that kinda makes sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullProof Posted February 1, 2010 Member ID: 423 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 14 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 159 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 2 Achievement Points: 948 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/17/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 16, 2012 Birthday: 08/28/1983 Share Posted February 1, 2010 cynic lol well i meant 126,000k just didnt add the zeros sorry about that That is when im using it most of the time it idles between 50,000 and 85,000 guess depending the last restart i had Yep i would got Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullProof Posted February 1, 2010 Member ID: 423 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 0 Topic Count: 14 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 159 Content Per Day: 0.03 Reputation: 2 Achievement Points: 948 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/17/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 16, 2012 Birthday: 08/28/1983 Share Posted February 1, 2010 LiquidStool cynic it could be an addon causing the issue you should try and run it in safemode and see if the memory issue still happens. If not then most likely it is one of the addons. thanks for that man - how do i run it in safe mode? i assume you mean FF not windows........... Well i would end the process that you see firefox using the memory. Then just go to your mozilla folder on program files and it should have a safe mode Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidStool Posted February 1, 2010 Member ID: 508 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 4 Topic Count: 140 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 472 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 38 Achievement Points: 5787 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/25/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 7, 2016 Birthday: 01/20/1969 Author Share Posted February 1, 2010 right, i ran ff in safemode and managed to get it down to an average of 91000kb/ 12% of system resources which still sounds like an awful lot to me but when i restarted in normal mode it stayed more or less the same. All themes and non essential add ons have been disabled, i noticed that there were three versions of java running, i've disabled the earlier verions and just kept the most upto date running. i'll fiddle a bit more. thanks guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidStool Posted February 1, 2010 Member ID: 508 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 4 Topic Count: 140 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 472 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 38 Achievement Points: 5787 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/25/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 7, 2016 Birthday: 01/20/1969 Author Share Posted February 1, 2010 well, i re-enabled add ons which i use and disabled xfire toolbar, friendbar and rss feeds and it's now levelled out at an almost static 70000kb, which ain't to bad. Think i'll check out chrome though, been hearing good things about that. thanks for your help guys - appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackncoke Posted February 2, 2010 Member ID: 874 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 44 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 371 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 1 Achievement Points: 2298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/12/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 20, 2016 Birthday: 05/27/1986 Share Posted February 2, 2010 problem also is if you are browsing ... if firefox is idle then it should not be using that much memory.. but if for example you are going to a website.. OR if you are even idling on a website like our site.. it will cause the memory usage to go up because of the graphics / flash/ etc etc etc long story short.. go to google .com dont search for anything and see what your mem usage is at:) if rick james wants to jump in here and further explain what im talking about.. guess ill allow it this time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
live-evil Posted February 2, 2010 Member ID: 267 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 2 Topic Count: 24 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 55 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 19 Achievement Points: 538 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/06/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 12 Birthday: 08/14/1961 Device: Windows Share Posted February 2, 2010 Hi i found a program called firefox ultimate optimizer which appears to have dramatically reduced the memory used by firefox, might be worth a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LiquidStool Posted February 2, 2010 Member ID: 508 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 4 Topic Count: 140 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 472 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 38 Achievement Points: 5787 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/25/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 7, 2016 Birthday: 01/20/1969 Author Share Posted February 2, 2010 WTF?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WiZiD Posted February 2, 2010 Member ID: 804 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 446 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 3600 Content Per Day: 0.68 Reputation: 1053 Achievement Points: 24386 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 11/28/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 7, 2020 Birthday: 04/25/1960 Share Posted February 2, 2010 Hey just a note; When ever I install firefox on a pc and I do alot of it. I ALWAYS install several addon to firefox. Adblock plus https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=adblock+plus&cat=all&advancedsearch=1&as=1&appid=1&lver=3.5&atype=0&pp=20&pid=5&sort=&lup= This is the little red stop sign with the letters abp in it. That will block most of those annoying pop ups. After being online for just a bit you can downarrow next to the stop sign top right of firefox and see how much it has blocked. You will be amazed at how much crap does not get on you pc anymore because of that. Also I install WOT.... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q=wot&cat=all&advancedsearch=1&as=1&appid=1&lver=3.5&atype=0&pp=20&pid=5&sort=&lup= This one is web of trust..a handy little tool that gives you ratings of sights and marks them red, yellow, green.....Green is safe site to go to and works well with newcommers to the net. As I stated that I put these on every system I do and have had no complaints or systems comming back with problems. (knock on wood) My mem usage with these running is 145,656k Well I hope this helps a little and as always these are just suggestions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
NickTheGrip Posted February 2, 2010 Member ID: 177 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 16 Topic Count: 145 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1669 Content Per Day: 0.31 Reputation: 281 Achievement Points: 10581 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 27, 2023 Birthday: 05/08/1961 Device: iPhone Share Posted February 2, 2010 I am currently running two FF windows, one of which, or course, is the Xtreme idiots website, the other is wkikpedia. My task manager say its is running around 150,000k. I do, however have a greasemonkey running also for some hmm hmmm hmmm , cough, cough, scripting I am doing. so running it should be less than that. I personally dont think that is so high considering the next item down in the memory usage is RTVscan which is my antivirus and it is using 131,000k. and remember the percentage usage is your CPU, not your memory. Mine says I am running around 22% usage, but 140,000k is around 4% of my memory Just trying to help, though probably not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options... Awards
LiquidStool Posted February 3, 2010 Member ID: 508 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 4 Topic Count: 140 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 472 Content Per Day: 0.09 Reputation: 38 Achievement Points: 5787 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/25/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: February 7, 2016 Birthday: 01/20/1969 Author Share Posted February 3, 2010 live-evil Hi i found a program called firefox ultimate optimizer which appears to have dramatically reduced the memory used by firefox, might be worth a try. fuck me, i noticed my usage had crept back up again, 4122321kb and was using 12% of cpu. i installed this and my usage dropped like a stone: Thanks for this bro, an awesome little program; Get it here: http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Network_and_Internet/Misc__Web_Browser_Tools/Apro_Firefox_Ultimate_Optimizer_Download.html It did bundle some shite with it but only took a minute to get rid of it - well worth the hassle! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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