High memory usage can slow down a program or the operating system. While I personally never experienced that in Firefox on my computer systems, I know of users who did and still do. Finding the cause for the high memory usage in Firefox would obviously be the best solution for the issue. Sometimes though that [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Mozilla Firefox Will Become More Memory Efficient
The Mozilla Firefox web browser has quite the bad image when it comes to memory efficiency. You see claims all over the Internet that the browser is eating up more memory than other browsers. Comparisons often are not entirely fair to begin with, considering that most Firefox users have their fair share of add-ons installed [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Dormancy, Unload Firefox Tabs To Free RAM
The Firefox web browser is still perceived by many as a RAM eater and a program that pushes RAM usage on many configurations to the limit. When you analyze that you may come to a different conclusion though. Lifehacker recently ran some – limited and non scientific – tests with the result that Chrome and [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Firefox Telemetry, What Is It
Mozilla has introduced a new feature called Telemetry in Firefox 7, which is currently implemented in Aurora and Nightly builds only. Telemetry has been added to the browser to measure the performance of the Firefox web browser. This is an opt-in service which means that it is not enabled by default. Users who want to [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Latest Mozilla Meeting Reveals Firefox 4 Performance, Stability Issues
The latest meeting notes of Mozilla Firefox’s development team seem to suggest that the last two beta releases of Firefox 4 have caused an increase in performance and stability issue reports by users of said beta versions of the web browser. Mozilla notes that there has been a “huge increase in daily comments about memory [...]
- Author: Martin Brinkmann
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Memory Fox Flushes Firefox’s Memory Constantly
Some Firefox users feel that the web browser has grown into the wrong direction lately with to much bloat being added to the web browser. The computer memory usage of the web browser is one of the factors that they use to make their point although studies show that memory usage actually decreased in Firefox [...]