[citation][nom]therabiddeer[/nom]Question for those that update regularly
o you have to keep updating and setting up your add-ons with each update of firefox?[/citation]
no, i pick one and stay with it till something major is released, i like the incremental releases because if a release of a .01 will break extension functionality (yes, even if you force some, when firefox updates it some wont work), than it may as well be a full number... and faster releases mean they get things out faster, and bug check a smaller amount each time, so its not like another ff4 where its late by what, was it 6 months late?
[citation][nom]mrpijey[/nom]You mean use 2.5x more memory than Chrome? Firefox is slow, bloated and buggy, and it seems their version inflation has been put in the drivers seat rather than fixing all the bloat and bugs. I love the plugins in Firefox and it took a lot of energy and restraint to move away from it, but now I am free from its bloat and I only test it when there's a new major version out. So far it's been far from impressive...Firefox runs as a dead dog today if you have a few decent plugins and tabs open at all times. And this on a high end i7 with 24GB RAM... I am not saying Chrome (which I use) is the perfect browser - far from it, but if I had to choose between the black plague and the ebola I have to choose the one that kills me with the least amount of pain.[/citation]
if i had 24gb of ram chrome would be my go to as well, but as it stands, i have 10 times the tabs open in firefox and it still uses less than chrome (waterfox variant, 10, 64bit, it uses more ram than normal ff by almost 1gb, but its still less than half of a far less weighed down chrome)
i mean lets look at it from a rational point of view... if i could save the whole web page as a png, and the size of that png is smaller than what chrome is useing to show the web page... something is screwed up... but chrome... if you have the ram... preforms far better multimedia than ff ever has.
[citation][nom]razor512[/nom]herd that mozilla is planning to add a feature where each additional tab run in it's own process so that when a tab is closed 100% of it's memory allocation can be flushed.We should be seeing it in firefox 3587763498276456590678487435897 coming out later this year.Later they plan to finally introduce multithreading which will mean 3-4 times the performance on a quad core CPU(version 5487875485458466789456725476547636495104501435-056145613405134591345138045387045)[/citation]
each tab being its own process is what makes chrome hog so much damn memory... that is a feature that would see me stop using ff completely.
[citation][nom]therabiddeer[/nom]But do you have to keep tweaking the settings with each update? I remember going from 3 to 4 I lost a ton of extensions for a long time, and the ones that I kept I had to set up all over again. It was a huge hassle.[/citation]
no, i have went from 3.5 to 5.0 to nightly 8.0 to standard 8.0 to standard 9.0 and waterfox 64bit...
its general consensus that if a tab isn't working and isn't being updated, that its abandoned, so find a variant.
i moved to ff 8 a long time ago... so i cant tell you what setting i had to mess with... because i has some extentions that were dropped in version 3.5 and screwed up the browser if i forced extentions to run. i dont remember ever needing to reset tab mix plus from 3.5 through to waterfox... so i think something screwed up on your end when you made that switch.
[citation][nom]lordstormdragon[/nom]To all users complaining about Firefox's memory usage: install MemoryFox, already. It's a free add-on. It comes up second if you Google-search "memory firefox". It will take care of your memory problems, just as it has for the past few years to those who know how to use Google or any search engine."Oh, but I shouldn't NEED an add-on to handle my memory issues!" Well, yes you should. Add-ons are created so people will stop whining and get back to work. So do just that, people![/citation]
it works, i can testify to that, i used it on my full system prior to getting 8gb of ram... it made chrome far more useable than it is, but at the cost of taking away and amount of speed you have with the programs... if you have at most 20 tabs at any given time open... its a great addon, but if you use more, browser speed at minimum comes to a hault.
[citation][nom]agnickolov[/nom]My own experience is that Firefox gets rather slow when its memory consumption footprint reaches 800MB to 1GB, at least in the usage scenarios I have at work. These involve a lot of data being streamed into single pages, most of it plain HTML or even plain text. It usually takes about 1-2 weeks to get into such a nearly crawl state. The machine has 8GB RAM and it's not heavily utilized, so RAM is not the problem. I suspect it has to do with lots of internal tables and lots of garbage left inside them (the memory leaks everybody talks about). The CPU is quad core, albeit somewhat ancient (Core 2 Quad Q9550).[/citation]
firefox 32bit crawl at about 725mb... starts to patriotically lock up at 1.25gb, and crashes to the point you have to manually close it at 1.5gb
when i went to waterfox, i noticed an immediate jump in ram useage from an average 500mb, to over 1gb... but right now im sitting with over 500 tabs, and its sitting at 1.73gb of use...
chrome is sitting at 27 tabs exactly, and is using about 2.6gb viable, but if i close it ill get between 3 and 4gb back.
[citation][nom]otacon72[/nom]...not really. FF has always been a memory hog and it slows down dramatically after time. The same 5 tabs open in FF that takes up 400MB of RAM takes 213MB in IE9. I'm not even including the plug-in container...tack on another 40MB for that. FF has been garbage after v4. It still crashes with Flash all the time.[/citation]
yea flash sucks in fire fox... if you are only going to open 2 or 3 pages... use something else instead, if you are going to open alot of pages, thats where ff shines.
/" (hear that chrome?), and without changing irreversibly the way tabs and menus are organized (hear that firefox?). Opera's newer versions will eventually run the scripts like the other browsers, for example the scripts in 9gag.com , just like past new versions finally ran the feedback page of Tom's Hardware the way it was supposed to be ran.
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