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Firefox 3 Beta 1: The Memory Use Says It All

14 points by transburgh 19y ago

Elfan 19y ago
Can a Mac user clarify what that is a screenshot of? Most people seem to be a capture of CPU instead of memory use (in which case the author clearly has no idea what he is talking about).
nickb 19y ago
Memory... what about CPU usage? It too is out of control.
- Elfan 19y ago
  If you are seeing CPU performance degrade with time it is (likely) a symptom of memory fragmentation. I have not seen any rendering benchmarks where gecko fairs significantly worse than the others.
  - nickb 19y ago
    Not sure what the issue is but FF is using about 50% of my CPU.. steady. Other browsers I tried use much, much less (usually less than 5%).
    - ntoshev 19y ago
      Are you running a dual-core CPU? ;) It is likely that the pages you view contain aggressive Javascript and Firefox doesn't do enough to tame it.
      - nickb 19y ago
        Yes, c2d. I care only because I hate fans coming on. I like my MBP silent.
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SwellJoe 19y ago
I'm seeing less memory usage, so far (I upgraded this afternoon, and have been running for about 8 hours). It also doesn't crash every fifteen minutes the way Gran Paradiso did when I tried it. Firebug 1.1 works, so I'm golden. Got no bookmarks (delicious isn't available yet, I guess), but that won't kill me: I only go to three sites anyway (Google, Reddit, News.YC) and I know those addresses.
tarkin2 19y ago
After a few minutes of using it my CPU and memory usage spiked. I had to end firefox's process in the end. More and more I think about switching to a webkit-based browser or opera, although I've never found opera all that great. I really like firefox's UI but it's too much of a resource hog these days.
edgeztv 19y ago
Check out http://www.techdo.com/firefox-wonder-edition/ http://www.techdo.com/firefox-wonder-edition/ It's a super slim, zero-install (you can use it side-by side with your current FF installation), modded FF 1.5. I've been using it for a week and it's a huge relief after putting up with FF2's awful performance for so long! The FF team really needs to fix all their garbage collection flaws in the next version if they want to retain their user base.

14 points by transburgh 19y ago

Elfan 19y ago

Can a Mac user clarify what that is a screenshot of? Most people seem to be a capture of CPU instead of memory use (in which case the author clearly has no idea what he is talking about).

nickb 19y ago

Memory... what about CPU usage? It too is out of control.

Elfan 19y ago
If you are seeing CPU performance degrade with time it is (likely) a symptom of memory fragmentation. I have not seen any rendering benchmarks where gecko fairs significantly worse than the others.
- nickb 19y ago
  Not sure what the issue is but FF is using about 50% of my CPU.. steady. Other browsers I tried use much, much less (usually less than 5%).
  - ntoshev 19y ago
    Are you running a dual-core CPU? ;) It is likely that the pages you view contain aggressive Javascript and Firefox doesn't do enough to tame it.
    - nickb 19y ago
      Yes, c2d. I care only because I hate fans coming on. I like my MBP silent.

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SwellJoe 19y ago

I'm seeing less memory usage, so far (I upgraded this afternoon, and have been running for about 8 hours). It also doesn't crash every fifteen minutes the way Gran Paradiso did when I tried it. Firebug 1.1 works, so I'm golden. Got no bookmarks (delicious isn't available yet, I guess), but that won't kill me: I only go to three sites anyway (Google, Reddit, News.YC) and I know those addresses.

tarkin2 19y ago

After a few minutes of using it my CPU and memory usage spiked. I had to end firefox's process in the end. More and more I think about switching to a webkit-based browser or opera, although I've never found opera all that great. I really like firefox's UI but it's too much of a resource hog these days.

edgeztv 19y ago

Check out http://www.techdo.com/firefox-wonder-edition/ http://www.techdo.com/firefox-wonder-edition/ It's a super slim, zero-install (you can use it side-by side with your current FF installation), modded FF 1.5. I've been using it for a week and it's a huge relief after putting up with FF2's awful performance for so long! The FF team really needs to fix all their garbage collection flaws in the next version if they want to retain their user base.