http://aeroppon.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/firefox-3/ thoughts, training, and life Thu, 24 Dec 2009 07:25:14 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://aeroppon.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/firefox-3/#comment-212 Roppon Tue, 06 May 2008 01:43:03 +0000 http://aeroppon.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/firefox-3/#comment-212 I am currently using Safari 3 more than Firefox 3 myself. It's quicker on Vista. I am currently using Safari 3 more than Firefox 3 myself. It’s quicker on Vista.

]]> http://aeroppon.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/firefox-3/#comment-211 Joe Mon, 05 May 2008 20:30:26 +0000 http://aeroppon.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/firefox-3/#comment-211 Well I guess this is good news for people who find this info to actually be true when using Firefox 3 (beta 4).However my personal experience while running 3.0 Beta 4 on a machine running Vista Ultimate 64bit is just the opposite.Firefox 2.0 used to use alot of ram,upwards of 700MB, however 3.0 hasn't improved on that at all.In actuality Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 has been constantly using over 1GB of ram with only a few windows open.Closing windows does not help at all, the RAM is never released until Firefox is completely restarted.I have tried all the tricks I've seen on the net.Manually setting the maximum memory cache,enabling release memory when minimized,disabling the extensions,running in safe mode,tried the RAMback extension,clearing download history,setting it so it doesn't remember what is downloaded,still Firefox 3.0 beta 4 hogs up memory.At one point it was up to 1.8GB memory usage.Looks like it's either go back to 2.0 or try a different browser such as Safari or IE7(despite what others have mentioned here,for me IE7 uses less memory) . Well I guess this is good news for people who find this info to actually be true when using Firefox 3 (beta 4).However my personal experience while running 3.0 Beta 4 on a machine running Vista Ultimate 64bit is just the opposite.Firefox 2.0 used to use alot of ram,upwards of 700MB, however 3.0 hasn’t improved on that at all.In actuality Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 has been constantly using over 1GB of ram with only a few windows open.Closing windows does not help at all, the RAM is never released until Firefox is completely restarted.I have tried all the tricks I’ve seen on the net.Manually setting the maximum memory cache,enabling release memory when minimized,disabling the extensions,running in safe mode,tried the RAMback extension,clearing download history,setting it so it doesn’t remember what is downloaded,still Firefox 3.0 beta 4 hogs up memory.At one point it was up to 1.8GB memory usage.Looks like it’s either go back to 2.0 or try a different browser such as Safari or IE7(despite what others have mentioned here,for me IE7 uses less memory) .

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