Firefox 2.0 is a RAM hog

[mbucari1]

I've had it open for a few hours now, and now with 3 tabs it's using 160MB of ram. Does it not shrink once a tab is closed until it restarts?

[S!X]

Mine drops when I close a tab(s). FF has always been a ram hog..... if you disable memory caching it'll use a lot less ram but the pages will take longer to load.

[mbucari1]

Mine drops when I close a tab(s). FF has always been a ram hog..... if you disable memory caching it'll use a lot less ram but the pages will take longer to load.
I have 4Gb, it's not that big of a deal. I was just surprised.

[stern80]

a partial solution to the memory hogging is:

create new boolean value "config.trim_on_minimize" and set to true

it reduces the memory used when firefox is minimised

[burtz]

installing mr tech's extension and having a restart button does the job done for me. it saves the session when i restart and the ram usage decreases. yeah, i know it's not an automatic solution, but at least it works.

[SnnY]

To sum up this thread. Firefox uses a lot of memory.

If this bothers you, use Internet Explorer.

Don't you dare come in and post, "or Opera".

[Alien5]

To sum up SnnY in this thread, he hates Firefox because it uses a lot of memory so he uses Internet Explorer. :P

[S!X]

it's not that big of a deal.

:dabs:

[lynx]

Why not use Opera?

[argKarg]

Firefox has the nicest Addons!

[mbucari1]

Why not use Opera?
I tried. I mean I really tried to use it. I wanted to like it because of security benefits and superior rendering engine. But I just couldn't. I'm a firefox guy all the way. I think I'll get that restart button adon.