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Yert
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Firefox 2010-05-08 16:52:57 Reply

Anyone know a way to make FF not be such a resource hog?

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 16:54:56 Reply

No. I have been having similar problems with it.

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 16:57:12 Reply

Yeah.
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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 16:59:33 Reply

180MB resource hog? Most applications use that. I had resource problems with firefox, it was using over 1GB of ram, 10x what you're seeing.

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 16:59:44 Reply
At 5/8/10 04:58 PM, rorypearce94 wrote: delete system 32, free up loads of space.

Nobody falls for that trick anymore.

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 17:00:00 Reply

If your saying it takes up loads of memory then I doubt there is anything you can do about it, I'm sure it's the same for most people.

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 17:00:34 Reply

Download Opera?

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 17:01:40 Reply
At 5/8/10 04:59 PM, stickman08 wrote:
At 5/8/10 04:58 PM, rorypearce94 wrote: delete system 32, free up loads of space.
Nobody falls for that trick anymore.

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 17:02:31 Reply

Disable it's assimilators.

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 17:05:57 Reply

Install Chrome.

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 17:06:49 Reply
At 5/8/10 04:59 PM, citricsquid wrote: 1GB of ram, 10x what you're seeing.

It's about 6x actually

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 17:07:09 Reply

Derp.

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 17:07:38 Reply

Disable images/ other multimedia, or... yell at website administrators for using images/ other multimedia.

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 17:11:19 Reply

Mine seems to have got better now.

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 17:11:29 Reply
At 5/8/10 05:07 PM, letiger wrote: Derp.

You think?

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 17:12:47 Reply
At 5/8/10 05:11 PM, citricsquid wrote:
At 5/8/10 05:07 PM, letiger wrote: Derp.
You think?

Crap! And to think I was using FireFox a couple months ago with only 1 GIG of ram. Now I have 3 and it's taking that to its advantage.

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 17:28:13 Reply
At 5/8/10 04:58 PM, rorypearce94 wrote: delete system 32, free up loads of space.

^^ you do realize that posing "delete system 32" is a bannable offense right?

not backseat modding, just stating a fact...

and maybe because you use so many add-ons...

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 18:21:37 Reply

Pfft.

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%cpu: 0.3
%mem: 13.3

Mem: 1478400k total, 1425188k used, 53212k free, 51652k buffers
Swap: 4466160k total, 1984k used, 4464176k free, 934068k cached

That's what, ~200mb? Not that bad. Konqueror eats a comparable amount of memory just by being open and having a few tabs, whereas I have eight tabs, a pile of RSS feeds, NoScript, and who knows what else running on this. (Konqueror also eats like 20% of my CPU, which is one of the many reasons I fucking hate KDE, but that's a different problem.)

Uninstall all your addons and themes and whatever else you're dangling off it.

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 19:04:41 Reply
At 5/8/10 04:58 PM, rorypearce94 wrote: delete system 32, free up loads of space.

Thats so 2000 and something.

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 20:14:37 Reply
At 5/8/10 04:58 PM, rorypearce94 wrote: delete system 32, free up loads of space.

You are completely stupid for even attempting it. I only saw it work once, and that's only if it did and the person didn't just say "fuck newgrounds"

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 20:30:25 Reply
At 5/8/10 05:28 PM, JKMonkey wrote:
At 5/8/10 04:58 PM, rorypearce94 wrote: delete system 32, free up loads of space.
^^ you do realize that posing "delete system 32" is a bannable offense right?

not backseat modding, just stating a fact...
and maybe because you use so many add-ons...

Banned him for 10 days.

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 20:34:44 Reply

Mine's running on about 150mb of ram. I have a dell dimension from like 2005 and I'm still able to keep on trucking.

quit your bitching.

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 21:08:56 Reply

Think its due to the number of addons you have?

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 21:11:47 Reply

130MB huh?
Hey Google Chrome, how much are you using? 30MB.

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 22:25:13 Reply
At 5/8/10 08:30 PM, WadeFulp wrote:
Banned him for 10 days.

A ban from Wade himself? Damn, that's gotta hurt.

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 23:31:22 Reply

There's a tweak in about:config. Firefox does have pretty epic memory leaks.

Look for config.trim_on_minimize in the Filter bar and turn it to TRUE.
Look for browser.cache.memory.enable and set it to TRUE.
Right click go to New>Integer and make browser.cache.memory.capacity. For every GB of RAM you have, put in 16384, so 1GB is 16384 and 4GB is 65536.

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 23:32:14 Reply

Holy shit! I don't think my Firefox has ever gone up that high :O

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 23:34:54 Reply

Download Google Chrome. Much better.

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 23:52:24 Reply
At 5/8/10 11:34 PM, G0DS-Messenger wrote: Download Google Chrome. Much better.

Yeah. The process will only take up a fourth of that, but there will be 20 more of them.

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Response to Firefox 2010-05-08 23:53:26 Reply
At 5/8/10 11:34 PM, G0DS-Messenger wrote: Download Google Chrome. Much better.

Care to explain how?

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