Support Firefox using 300MB-400MB of RAM

Discussion in 'Technology' started by Hayabusa, Aug 27, 2014.

  1. Hayabusa Venomous

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    I've tried a lot of things already: turning off hardware acceleration, turning off all of my extensions, creating a new profile, changing different config files, trying new extensions, etc. The best I was able to get was around 150MB by turning off all of my extensions, but at that point, I may as well be using Chrome, which I WOULD (only uses about 80MB-90MB) but I really prefer having the Firefox extensions I have right now. Palemoon wasn't much better, and Waterfox is only marginally better while missing the extensions I really like.

    Are there any other things I could do to fix this? Should I jump ship to Chrome, or some other browser? I'm really getting fed up with the memory leaking.
     
  2. Miles Cull a Duty 2 : Electric Boogaloo

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    Memory leak probably. I'm not sure how to fix it. Could be a bug.

    EDIT: missed the memory leak part. =S
     
  3. Amaury Legendary Hero

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    Unless it's causing performance problems, I wouldn't worry about it too much. Mine uses a lot more:

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    Are you on the latest version? Each update fixes memory issues.
     
  4. Hayabusa Venomous

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    So, just more of Firefox's great programming, huh? And to think it's been my favorite browser for a while...

    It's kind of obvious, but yes, I'm on the latest version: I update the browser every time a new release comes out.

    And though it's usually a workable speed, Firefox sometimes slows down to the point where a new page becomes an old school PS2 loading screen. It's also becoming harder and harder to use when Chrome suffers none of this speed issue.
     
  5. Misty gimme kiss

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    Yeah my Firefox usage is in the like 600MB range. Chrome iirc uses more of the CPU but less RAM, Firefox is vice versa.
     
  6. Hayabusa Venomous

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    How fast would you describe your browsing with Firefox? Lately, I've seen sites like KH-Vids taking as long as 15 seconds to load just one full page of posts, and I'm really getting tired of it and considering trying out other, less well-known browsers, just so I don't have to deal with this memory leak.
     
  7. Misty gimme kiss

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    Never anything close to that (stuff loads in seconds), which leads me to believe it's probably a problem on your end rather than with Firefox.

    This page has a lot of good info, though it sounds like you've tried a few of the suggestions already: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-uses-too-much-memory-ram

    You may also want to try uninstalling Firefox completely (use something like Revo Uninstaller) and then reinstalling it.
     
  8. Hayabusa Venomous

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    I've tried most of that stuff, including resetting Firefox, but I just ended up back at around 400MB...I've only had my laptop for like, a month, and the browser's already gotten this slow. Am I doing something wrong?