Speedier Firefox 7 Uses Less Memory

free4440273

Speedier Firefox 7 Uses Less Memory.

http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/09/speedier-firefox-7-uses-less-memory/


...we shall see :whistle:

DWatts

Most computers have over 1gb of RAM now, so I don't see what the big deal over memory use is.

Chrome loads fast enough for me and I have 6gb of RAM. In tests it might be a little slower, but it's still a better browser than Firefox has ever been.

spaceboy

I think Firefox is great. Just installed 7.0 so we'll see how much better it is.

BargainGalore

Shame roboform doesn't work at mo I got latest roboform too but addon is disabled in firefox and wont enable with nightly tools. It does appear slightly speedier I must say

barak

spaceboy wrote: »

I think Firefox is great. Just installed 7.0 so we'll see how much better it is.

I used to think that, but recently my 6.0.2 version keeps grabbing 100% of the CPU for up to half a minute, and I would love to know why.

Perhaps I should try 7.0 as I do tend to have several tabs open all the time.

spaceboy

barak wrote: »

I used to think that, but recently my 6.0.2 version keeps grabbing 100% of the CPU for up to half a minute, and I would love to know why.

Perhaps I should try 7.0 as I do tend to have several tabs open all the time.

That has been happening with mine too. It freezes for a while and turns grey. But so far 7.0 hasnt done this.

RobTang

I think ill wait for firefox 8 or maybe 10 it should be out soon enough.

Franky Mozilla needs to change the way FF updates if their going for more frequent releases because I really cant be botherd to update anymore.

DWatts wrote: »

Most computers have over 1gb of RAM now, so I don't see what the big deal over memory use is.

Chrome loads fast enough for me and I have 6gb of RAM. In tests it might be a little slower, but it's still a better browser than Firefox has ever been.

Ive had firefox 4 chewing up 1gb on its own, people tend to have a large number of multiple tabs open as well.
And while memory its not like a problem in the olden days, every little bit still adds up over all your applications.

Plus given that devs are trying to push html 5 / javascript as the lingua franca programming language, browser efficiency is much more important.

Mista_C

free4440273 wrote: »

Speedier Firefox 7 Uses Less Memory.

http://www.webmonkey.com/2011/09/speedier-firefox-7-uses-less-memory/


...we shall see :whistle:

It's currently using 105MB RAM here and the only thing open in there is this thread.

RussJK

As long as by reducing memory usage, they don't make performance overall worse e.g. by using the page file instead. I don't get the obsession with memory usage either, other than as a sign of efficient code.

Firefox uses less memory automatically on systems with lower RAM already - and it doesn't matter a great deal on any system with a decent amount of RAM. Load the whole program in memory for all I care - and don't even worry about HDD caching since a large cache can slow FF down anyway.

They just need to back off from this silly update numbering system, and focus on why people liked Firefox in the first place. Who really wants to be using Firefox 23.0? Well me, but call it Firefox 4.23.0 on the version tab.

debitcardmayhem

RussJK wrote: »

As long as by reducing memory usage, they don't make performance overall worse e.g. by using the page file instead. I don't get the obsession with memory usage either, other than as a sign of efficient code.

Firefox uses less memory automatically on systems with lower RAM already - and it doesn't matter a great deal on any system with a decent amount of RAM. Load the whole program in memory for all I care - and don't even worry about HDD caching since a large cache can slow FF down anyway.

They just need to back off from this silly update numbering system, and focus on why people liked Firefox in the first place. Who really wants to be using Firefox 23.0? Well me, but call it Firefox 4.23.0 on the version tab.

I have got my order in for the pre-release version of 25.12.11

ylink08uk

Happily using Firefox v3 on a poorly spec'd machine with no memory issues whatsoever