Re: What's Up With Firefox & RAM?

Pery you could try [ Opera ]
I ditched FF a few years ago for similar hogging reasons.
cheers G

2009/3/19 Perry Spiller <[email protected]>:
>
> Recently, I've noticed FF hogging memory
> like you wouldn't believe! Like two-thirds
> to three-quarters of one my 1 Gb RAM.
>
> Doesn't seem to matter about which or
> how many web pages are open.
>
> If I kill FF, then restart after a few moments,
> the start-up RAM call is modest - less than
> 100MB, with no pages open.
>
> Then it just seems to progressively build up
> to two-thirds to three-quarters of 1 Gb,
> slowing the computer down badly. So
> I kill it again and start over.
>
> The one thing that seems to be new is the
> server-forced upgrade by skype, which
> put a dialler into FF. I'll remove that to
> see if it makes a difference.
>
> Anyone else having this (general FF/RAM-
> hogging) experience?
>
> Perry
> (OS=W2kP)
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