Firefox needs too much memory

[Hal Burgiss]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 8:26 AM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 22 October 2011 13:20, Olivier Pavilla <olivier.pavilla at linux-squad.com
> > wrote:
>
>> I have ubuntu natty 64 bits. I have 4GB of RAM and swap 8GB.
>> So I h ave trouble with memory. It seems Firefox takes too much memory.
>> Look my "top"
>> Eventhough I stop firefox and run it again. It takes much memory.
>>
>
> How many tabs do you have open?
> What addons do you have installed?
> Have you fired the app up with a fresh profile - does it make a difference?
> Have you tried other browsers such as Opera, Chromium, Chrome and do any of
> them exhibit the same memory requirements with the same pages and tabs open?
>
>
What version of Firefox? I am not up to speed on which versions of Ubuntu
have which versions of firefox but memory utilization is one of the
improvements that came along FF5 or FF6, IIRC. If you are not using FF7, you
should definitely try that (google on how to install the ppa for it).

Firefox is a known memory hog, at least on Linux. I left it in favor Google
Chrome sometime back (7.10?). But on my current local system  (10.04 LTS /
4G / XFCE ), with FF7 and Chrome beta, Chrome is using signifcantly more
memory than FF.  Each with a fair number tabs, and a large handful of
addons.

-- 
Hal
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