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Just run several instances of Firefox for a couple of days non stop

by Morgawr 13y ago

josteink 13y ago
I thought that was Chrome. I've had Chrome consume 512MB per tab for 15+ tabs. I have 32GB ram so I can cope, but calling out Firefox as the worst offender in class is a wee bit rich.
- broodbucket 13y ago
  They're both ridiculous. I know browsers are really feature-intensive nowadays, but really, 500mb for a few tabs? I think the story is that Firefox uses less, but because Chrome has an individual process for each tab they don't all die at once, and Chrome has a nicer about:memory page. I've tried using lighter browsers like Midori but can't get away from having 10+ extensions for various things.
- Morgawr 13y ago
  Don't get me wrong, I use Firefox and I love it, it's my main browser. It was just a simple joke with no malicious intents. That said and done, I've had firefox run for several days on my computer and reach up to 3-4GB of memory used (I have 8GB). At that point it becomes very clunky and requires a restart.
icebraining 13y ago
Doesn't work here; three months and counting.
- dijit 13y ago
  honestly? virt-manager.py has some bug I've been looking at for a while. if I leave it on over the weekend hooked up to a few of my vm hosts, then I've got about 9gb ram used.
  - jsight 13y ago
    I hope you can find it... that issue has been driving me nuts for a few months now. (Granted, I haven't noticed it happening quite as much with the latest version in Fedora 19, maybe some of the issues have been fixed?)
  - Ellipsis753 13y ago
    I've got around 200 tabs open and I don't close Firefox in months. It's only using around 1GB of RAM at the moment (rarely more). I'm on Firefox 24.0 on Gentoo Linux and have a great many add-ons installed. It's possible that my addon to unload unused tabs from memory is helping me a lot here. My addons list: https://imageshack.us/a/img819/2726/7gdd.png https://imageshack.us/a/img819/2726/7gdd.png
alextingle 13y ago
...or any Java program.

Just run several instances of Firefox for a couple of days non stop

by Morgawr 13y ago

Just run several instances of Firefox for a couple of days non stop

I thought that was Chrome. I've had Chrome consume 512MB per tab for 15+ tabs. I have 32GB ram so I can cope, but calling out Firefox as the worst offender in class is a wee bit rich.

broodbucket 13y ago
They're both ridiculous. I know browsers are really feature-intensive nowadays, but really, 500mb for a few tabs? I think the story is that Firefox uses less, but because Chrome has an individual process for each tab they don't all die at once, and Chrome has a nicer about:memory page. I've tried using lighter browsers like Midori but can't get away from having 10+ extensions for various things.
Morgawr 13y ago
Don't get me wrong, I use Firefox and I love it, it's my main browser. It was just a simple joke with no malicious intents. That said and done, I've had firefox run for several days on my computer and reach up to 3-4GB of memory used (I have 8GB). At that point it becomes very clunky and requires a restart.

icebraining 13y ago

Doesn't work here; three months and counting.

dijit 13y ago
honestly? virt-manager.py has some bug I've been looking at for a while. if I leave it on over the weekend hooked up to a few of my vm hosts, then I've got about 9gb ram used.
- jsight 13y ago
  I hope you can find it... that issue has been driving me nuts for a few months now. (Granted, I haven't noticed it happening quite as much with the latest version in Fedora 19, maybe some of the issues have been fixed?)
- Ellipsis753 13y ago
  I've got around 200 tabs open and I don't close Firefox in months. It's only using around 1GB of RAM at the moment (rarely more). I'm on Firefox 24.0 on Gentoo Linux and have a great many add-ons installed. It's possible that my addon to unload unused tabs from memory is helping me a lot here. My addons list: https://imageshack.us/a/img819/2726/7gdd.png https://imageshack.us/a/img819/2726/7gdd.png

alextingle 13y ago

...or any Java program.