wtf firefox

[Rogean]

Http://www.rogean.com/images/wtffirefox.png

Gotta restart this shit like hourly. This is after almost 2 days.

[Evilmog]

Haha, mine only peaks at 250k, but seriously wtf

[eriamjh]

Damn Sean! 4-box much? Also 288,000K for notepad? That's the real crime here.

Edit: Twice even! Close Notepad and Firefox and you can 6-box easy lmao..

[Tork]

What kind of system do you have there?

[Happyluck]

Mine's at 74. Do you have like 5 windows with 15 tabs each with videos loaded? My dad does this and his computer is constantly getting little lag spikes and glitches.

[Daywolf]

mine is at 114,500k but I do have a few add-ons. That is mostly what kills it, those add-ons. Hah, prolly a small drop in the bucket with 170 processes goin there. 100 more than I use, especially cutting out things I'm not using.

[Scrooge]

I get them memory leaks just like you, Rogean. Despite not having anything content-heavy loaded and a very solid PC, it just seems to happen over time in the same day I run the program. CPU usage also goes up to 25% (on a quad-core), so it makes one core run at the full 100% for no reason.

[Rogean]

The problem is firefox will cache all things that it loads (images, etc) until it's closed.

[quido]

Don't let Uthgaard see this, he'll ban you for 4boxing!

[Rogean]

What kind of system do you have there?

Core 2 Quad @ 4.0 GHZ
8 GB GSkill Ram
Raid 0 2x 10k RPM Velociraptor
EVGA Geforce 260 GTX

[Omnimorph]

I've left my firefox on before and it's got to 1.4gig i think XD

[Hasbinbad]

firefox 4 is kinda awesome

[Loke]

Looks to me like Rogean is 4boxing! Ban em!

edit: damn, Jeremy totally beat me.

[eriamjh]

Looks to me like Rogean is 4boxing! Ban em!

edit: damn, Jeremy totally beat me.

Second post lol.. Unless you specifically refer to asking Rogean to ban himself. I didn't bother with that. :p

[Daywolf]

The problem is firefox will cache all things that it loads (images, etc) until it's closed.
Hmmm... I don't seem to have that problem here. I loaded about 30 tabs, including a few of my fav flash games. It goes up a whole lot on mem usage, but when I close them all out it reduces to around 150,000k

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
And on XPsp3
Though I'm going to install the latest this month, hope it doesn't start running up on cache.
Been exclusive to Mozilla since Mozilla beta, this would be the first problem I ever had, if it starts doing this.

Looks to me like Rogean is 4boxing! Ban em!lol maybe he plays on EQEMU:TGC, likes the modern graphics option lol

[Mcbard]

I know older versions of Firefox used to have crazy bad memory leaks. I switched to Chrome about 3 months ago after doing some speed tests. It loads pages (especially pages with graphics) so much quicker than Firefox did. It kind of sucks having to relearn everything, but Firefox 4 is going to look just like Chrome anyway.

[Itchybottom]

I know older versions of Firefox used to have crazy bad memory leaks. I switched to Chrome about 3 months ago after doing some speed tests. It loads pages (especially pages with graphics) so much quicker than Firefox did. It kind of sucks having to relearn everything, but Firefox 4 is going to look just like Chrome anyway.

Load a page full of GIF animation and watch Chrome suffer. Firefox still has more usability, and Internet Explorer and Opera are more secure than either.

[Rogean]

Hmm.. Firefox 4.. I shall test this.

[Daywolf]

Hmm.. Firefox 4.. I shall test this.
http://i111.photobucket.com/albums/n159/l33tace/various/ctd.jpg

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Memory_Leak

[Scrooge]

I'm about to install it also.

[Mcbard]

Load a page full of GIF animation and watch Chrome suffer. Firefox still has more usability, and Internet Explorer and Opera are more secure than either.

I've never had any issue with gifs at all, and all of the tests I've ran or seen show Chrome leaps and bounds ahead of Firefox in handling graphics. I just tested it out by loading a page full of gifs and it didn't even slow down noticeably. Did you read an article on this somewhere or have a specific page in mind to test with?

[Rottening]

Yeah, have you tried Chrome? I was an avid FireFox user until they made Chrome nice and stable.

[Chanus]

This Firefox 4 isn't half bad. It's basically Google Chrome, except you can use keyboard shortcuts for BBCode like Ctrl-B for bold and Ctrl-I for italics.

For some reason, that was too much to ask of Chrome even though those have been standard shortcuts since the god damned 80s.

[Omnimorph]

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a358/Ayato_Kamina/Firefox.png

Got a message telling me to disable my aero on win7 :/

I am dissapoint

[Daywolf]

Got a message telling me to disable my aero on win7 :/

I am dissapointLike the article I posted/linked says, the more memory you have, the more ff will scale usage. You have 50% physical left. Though that is high on usage, may want to try some tweaking on the settings.

[Aasimon]

People are under the assumption that memory management still functions like it did 10 years ago in the days of Windows XP. That is to say, they assume that Windows carves out whatever chunk it needs and refuses to ever give it back.

This is no longer the case.

Under the Windows Vista/7 memory management model, the Windows stack and other applications are free to gobble up memory to a point. In contrast, however, Vista/7 is more than willing to release that memory in the event another application demands precedence.

For example, EverQuest was running and demanded 692MB. As soon as I closed it, Firefox's memory consumption began to inflate. When I launched EverQuest again, Firefox's memory consumption scaled back.

If you're the kind of person that has 50% free memory after Windows, a 1GB application, and various other apps, you should not be surprised by high-memory apps.

Memory just isn't handled the same any more, so I don't know why people are bitching.

[Chanus]

So, what you're saying is I can stop trying to cram these punch cards into my DVD drive.

[Aasimon]

Basically.

[Messianic]

So, what you're saying is I can stop trying to cram these punch cards into my DVD drive.

Win

[Itchybottom]

I've never had any issue with gifs at all, and all of the tests I've ran or seen show Chrome leaps and bounds ahead of Firefox in handling graphics. I just tested it out by loading a page full of gifs and it didn't even slow down noticeably. Did you read an article on this somewhere or have a specific page in mind to test with?

A quick Google yielded this thread for testing http://forum.glassjaw.net/topic/7069/the-gif-animation-thread/. Chrome is pretty bad compared to Firefox, but it has got a little better. Scroll up and down, watch the CPU usage and watch the chop. Doesn't happen in Firefox.

[Scrooge]

My problem is not as much with high RAM usage as much as it is with high CPU usage...my Firefox tends to "freeze" up sometimes and pushes one of my cores to 100% load. Sometimes all it takes is closing one tab, and voila...back to normal, even if that tab was Allakhazam...and I had other Allakhazam tabs open at the same time. How do you explain this?

[Dr.Spike]

just block all flash, the flash plugin to firefox is the thing that eat up all your memory

[aggresor223]

Google Chrome is the way to be.

[Cyrius]

Chrome would not be so bad if it also had autocomplete in the URL like firefox. I mean how hard is it to implement? It's a pretty standard feature in my opinion.

[Scrooge]

just block all flash, the flash plugin to firefox is the thing that eat up all your memory

I use a FlashBlock plugin ;)

[Lelroni]

I always see people talking crap about Internet Explorer, but for me it seems to run fine. When I had Firefox installed, it took anywhere from 5-10 seconds just to load up. Chrome for me always crashed. I use to like Netscape back in the day ha. Maybe I just need to configure Firefox / Chrome a bit and they'll work better.

[Zithax]

I stopped using firefox because it is slow and has a terrible memory leak. Chrome dawg, way faster.

[odizzido]

http://www.members.shaw.ca/odizzido3/wdm.png