Browser seems to have slowed down

santer_2

Palemoon 6 portable, 32 and 6 x64 are available

http://www.palemoon.org/

RussJK

santer wrote: »

Palemoon 6 portable, 32 and 6 x64 are available

http://www.palemoon.org/

Have you tried the x64 version yet Santer? Haven't had a chance to even test 6 properly since I only got the option to update earlier.

santer_2

Haven't used x64 because everything is 32 bit here

grizzly1911

bat999 wrote: »

Yes, beta is Firefox-7 now.
The beta channel seems stable enough to use full-time. :cool:

Thanks to every one who has responded thus far.

Just loaded this certainly seems quicker at the moment.

I did notice that it downloaded the app really slowly something around the 35kbs?????/

Any ideas why it would come down so slow.

nickj_2

let's hope they can sort out ff memory leaks atm mine is using according to task manager over 300,00k

debitcardmayhem

grizzly1911 wrote: »

Thanks to every one who has responded thus far.

Just loaded this certainly seems quicker at the moment.

I did notice that it downloaded the app really slowly something around the 35kbs?????/

Any ideas why it would come down so slow.

Lack of bandwidth on their server, + 3M users have read this thread, they're seeing the legendary santer and russjk Have you not noticed that on Weds after patch Tuesday microsoft update crawls.

RussJK

nickj wrote: »

let's hope they can sort out ff memory leaks atm mine is using according to task manager over 300,00k

Is the memory usage getting worse over time, i.e. leaking?

It does take up more memory these days (on machines that can handle it), but a big part of it I believe is that it uses the RAM as cache.

Put it on a machine with 512mb of RAM, and it'll use 45mb memory. With 4gb of RAM, it consistently takes over 300mb. High memory usage doesn't necessarily mean poor performance.

grizzly1911

Mine is currently using 100k on 2.5GB I will watch it.

santer_2

The first thing I saw to " fix " the memory leak was this but apparently it just swapped it to the paging file

http://betanews.com/2011/06/03/firefox-plumber-plugs-memory-leaks-with-hidden-cost/

Seems there have been numerous attempts at correcting it and some are probably the work of descendants of the author of The Emporer's New Clothes

A few are going with this

http://www.cenaynailor.com/faq/fix-the-dreaded-memory-leak-in-firefox/

http://cybernetnews.com/this-may-help-your-firefox-memory-leak/

Also this

http://blog.skdev.net/2009/02/12/how-to-fix-firefox-memory-leak-problem/

Then there is this

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Memory_Leak

This seems to be a feasible offering, whilst not a fix, it does advise you when to restart the browser

http://betanews.com/2011/07/06/is-firefox-hogging-ram-memory-restart-can-fix-that/

" it displays Firefox's current memory consumption in the Add-ons Bar. This immediately reveals how Firefox's memory demands increase over time, regardless of how it's being used. When Firefox's memory consumption hits 500MB, the text will change to red to warn you that it's in danger of overrunning the rest of your system, telling you it's time to shut down and restart Firefox to free up most of the memory it's snaffled. "

RussJK

santer wrote: »

http://betanews.com/2011/06/03/firefox-plumber-plugs-memory-leaks-with-hidden-cost/

Seems there have been numerous attempts at correcting it and some are probably the work of descendants of the author of The Emporer's New Clothes

Obviously the same people who wrote all those useless memory optimisers that would actually worsen performance despite producing great stats.

I can remember when Firefox took up 50mb average, but the performance improved noticeably when the memory usage suddenly spiked.