Lowering Firefox memory usage? - GoFuckYourself.com

st0ned · 07-22-2010, 05:30 PM

Are there any plugins or anything that will lower the memory that Firefox uses? It has always been a major resource hog but lately has been in the 1,400,000-1,500,000k range. Surely there is something that will cut down on this?

On a side not, tried Chrome for a while, but all of my data is in FF and I could never get it to import correctly.

chris_joseph · 07-22-2010, 05:52 PM

try this addons:

AFOM - Memory Recovery & Retention For Firefox Only
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11922/

Memory Fox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/53880/

I'm currently using AFOM, Firefox(20+tabs open) memory never exceed 250mb

st0ned · 07-22-2010, 05:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chris_joseph

try this addons:

AFOM - Memory Recovery & Retention For Firefox Only
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11922/

Memory Fox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/53880/

I'm currently using AFOM, Firefox(20+tabs open) memory never exceed 250mb

Checking them out now. Thanks, much appreciated!

Fat Panda · 07-22-2010, 05:59 PM

mine runs away too

pornpf69 · 07-22-2010, 06:00 PM

I wonder why they don't solve this problem from FF...

alsdesign · 07-22-2010, 06:48 PM

In my opinion checking a load with yet another addon doesn't provide best results. Good old manual method:

Enable all of them, then start to enable, one by one and watch CPU & RAM usage. I know lengthy.... but sometimes you need to do this to get rid of conflicting addons.
Also check the Error console from time to time, some addons conflict between each other. For example Yslow addon creates errors within wordpress admin.

Wordpress admin in general doesn't like addons . Especially if you use some WP plugin that uses jQuery.

alsdesign · 07-22-2010, 06:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pornpf69

I wonder why they don't solve this problem from FF...

Actually this is often not the fault of Firefox, but the fault of addon developers.

Andy CHOOPA · 07-22-2010, 07:08 PM

Great question. I should probably close out one of the 40 tabs I have open... but would love the ideal solution also

alsdesign · 07-22-2010, 07:10 PM

st0ned, maybe I misunderstood you ...

Are you referring to FF memory leakage problem or memory consumed by addons?

bronco67 · 07-22-2010, 07:16 PM

http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en...&utm_medium=ha

st0ned · 07-22-2010, 07:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by alsdesign

st0ned, maybe I misunderstood you ...

Are you referring to FF memory leakage problem or memory consumed by addons?

Well, I didn't take a screenshot when it was really up there. Just restarted a bit ago and have minimal tabs open, but I am talking about this:

Earlier when I restarted it was over 1,500,000k. When it gets high FF lags out often, ill click a link and get the spinning circle (waiting icon). I am always researching stuff so hate to always have to close down tabs or restart every time FF starts to lag up.

HomerSimpson · 07-22-2010, 08:49 PM

install chrome

Chosen · 07-23-2010, 02:10 AM

Stop using Firefox...

alsdesign · 07-23-2010, 03:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by st0ned

Well, I didn't take a screenshot when it was really up there. Just restarted a bit ago and have minimal tabs open, but I am talking about this:

Earlier when I restarted it was over 1,500,000k. When it gets high FF lags out often, ill click a link and get the spinning circle (waiting icon). I am always researching stuff so hate to always have to close down tabs or restart every time FF starts to lag up.

Well , as people above wrote, consider switching to Chrome.

If you want to keep FF (too customized), the most effective cleanup of FF is:

backup data of you old profile
manual - http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/...ur+information , http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferri...file_-_Firefox
with an addon - http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/
add a new, clean profile to FF: run firefox -p in command prompt or "Run", close FF
copy basic profile data (second link above) to your profile.
run FF with new profile, see if problem persists
if it works, start importing extensions and enabling them one by one and watch CPU and RAM usage. Don't forget plugins (Flash, Silvelight, etc) can cause crashes / memory leaks as well

This process is very lengthy, can take up to 2 hours depending on your profile settings, but if you need to keep FF and get this solved, this is the most reliable in regards to identifying problems.

A very good article on this is also http://kb.mozillazine.org/Memory_Leak

Sorry if I confused you , but this stuff is kinda extensive

seeandsee · 07-23-2010, 03:42 AM

i will check out memory fox, with 3 open tabs i get just 82MB OF RAM, running on WIN7, still low...

Klen · 07-23-2010, 04:49 AM

I installed AFOM and then firefox was not able to run anymore.

alsdesign · 07-23-2010, 04:59 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by seeandsee

i will check out memory fox, with 3 open tabs i get just 82MB OF RAM, running on WIN7, still low...

In my opinion that's fine, especially if the 3 pages use some Flash or Javascript.

Raf1 · 07-23-2010, 05:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chris_joseph

try this addons:

AFOM - Memory Recovery & Retention For Firefox Only
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11922/

Memory Fox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/53880/

I'm currently using AFOM, Firefox(20+tabs open) memory never exceed 250mb

thanks, I'll try the AFOM one out now

Denny · 07-23-2010, 05:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chris_joseph

try this addons:

AFOM - Memory Recovery & Retention For Firefox Only
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11922/

Memory Fox
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/53880/

I'm currently using AFOM, Firefox(20+tabs open) memory never exceed 250mb

thanks, just installed AFOM...

Raf1 · 07-23-2010, 05:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Raf1

thanks, I'll try the AFOM one out now

AFOM didn't work for me. I installed Memory Fox instead

punkpred · 07-23-2010, 05:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HomerSimpson

install chrome

Firefox chewed up 2.7gb of my ddr ram. uninstalled and started using chrome and also opera for a few applications and the pc runs much faster and the browsers are much more stable than firefox.
Firefox in the past 6 months has run down hill, it has some serious crashing issues and the problem has never been resolved. Besides the apps it doesn't even come close to chrome, that btw is coughing up apps faster than anyone else now.

Klen · 07-23-2010, 12:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by punkpred

Firefox chewed up 2.7gb of my ddr ram. uninstalled and started using chrome and also opera for a few applications and the pc runs much faster and the browsers are much more stable than firefox.
Firefox in the past 6 months has run down hill, it has some serious crashing issues and the problem has never been resolved. Besides the apps it doesn't even come close to chrome, that btw is coughing up apps faster than anyone else now.

Holy fucking shit,and i though i with 1 gb of memory usage is big case.I remember there was a time when i was able to run firefox with billions of windows opened without problem,and now i have barely 10-20 windows opened max and i need to restart it every 2 day to make it work.

signupdamnit · 07-23-2010, 01:17 PM

Unfortunately from seeing some pictures from developer events I noticed that many of the developers seem to be on Macs. This seems to hurt Linux and Windows users to a degree because it affects the speed at which platform specific issues are fixed. There exists all sorts of tweaks using about:config but the major problem is that doing a normal Google search will yield you mostly unusable data with a mess of techniques for various versions.

I gave up on it myself, for now. Somehow I have it to the point where it is usable and doesn't hog all of my memory beyond 25% of total system memory. However I still need to close it out, have it save tabs, and then reopen it about once a day or the interface can become extremely sluggish.

You might try using the development version of 3.7 and 4.0 (You will likely need to disable version checking for many of your extensions to work)

http://nightly.mozilla.org/ <---- Nightlies (latest development code each day)

Btw, to be fair I should point out that 64 bit will by nature use more than 32 bit so when doing comparisons with one another, keep this in mind.

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signupdamnit Confirmed User Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 6,697	Unfortunately from seeing some pictures from developer events I noticed that many of the developers seem to be on Macs. This seems to hurt Linux and Windows users to a degree because it affects the speed at which platform specific issues are fixed. There exists all sorts of tweaks using about:config but the major problem is that doing a normal Google search will yield you mostly unusable data with a mess of techniques for various versions. I gave up on it myself, for now. Somehow I have it to the point where it is usable and doesn't hog all of my memory beyond 25% of total system memory. However I still need to close it out, have it save tabs, and then reopen it about once a day or the interface can become extremely sluggish. You might try using the development version of 3.7 and 4.0 (You will likely need to disable version checking for many of your extensions to work) http://nightly.mozilla.org/ <---- Nightlies (latest development code each day) Btw, to be fair I should point out that 64 bit will by nature use more than 32 bit so when doing comparisons with one another, keep this in mind. Last edited by signupdamnit; 07-23-2010 at 01:21 PM..