Firefox Mega Memory Usage

Filed Under (Waste Basket) by Mysk on 11-02-2006

This was incredible, and is the first time that I’ve seen Firefox using so much system memory.

The browser locked up when I opened the second - yes, only the second - tab to check my GMail. Actually, I’ve been getting spammed in GMail lately and I was logging in to flag the mail as such, but that’s another store story entirely.

Anyway, so I close the program and then try to relaunch the browser, but I receive a message saying that Firefox is already running. I do the three finger salute to bring up the task manager to kill it, and this is where my eyes bugged out of my head for a brief moment.

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You have to see this to believe it. :) Firefox using darn near 300 MBs of RAM.

~Steph

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  1. Shadows In Motion » Blog Archive » Opera: My New Default Web Browser on 14 Feb 2006 at Feb 14, 06 | 10:09 pm #

    […] I’m not necessarily saying that Opera is better than Firefox, I’m simply saying that I’m tired of Firefox’s performance issues. Case in point, I posted a few days ago about how Firefox used just under 300 MBs of memory immediately before crashing. The only other software on my computer that meets or surpases that level of resource consumption is EverQuest 2. […]