We have talked about Mozilla’s move to improve Firefox memory usage starting with Firefox 7. Up until yesterday those improvements were only available in Firefox Nightly builds. Mozilla rolled out Firefox 7 to the Aurora channel today, and boy has memory usage gone down. The memory usage of the browser was usually in the 300 [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Memory usage has always been the Achilles’ heel of the Firefox browser for part of the user base. Mozilla acknowledges that and is currently working on optimizing the browser’s memory usage significantly. One would normally assume that opening a tab increases memory usage, and that closing the same tab would drop memory utilization again to [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

One of the main points of criticism of Firefox users is the memory usage of the web browser. While I personally think that it has gotten a lot better with recent browser releases, some users are still reporting that the memory usage goes through the roof over time. It is not always the browser core [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Windows

The memory management software Minimem was initially developed to limit the memory consumption of the Firefox web browser. The application was designed to keep Firefox’s memory hunger in line by “removing as many non-necessary memory pages as possible” from the Firefox process. The application since then has evolved and is now capable of managing all [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Every open tab in the Firefox web browser uses computer memory. That’s not a problem if a dozen or less are open, but can quickly become one if the count reaches 40 or more. Some users are experiencing lags and delays because of this, which often can be resolved by restarting the browser. It does [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

I reviewed the RAMBack add-on for Firefox 3 yesterday which provided a function to clear RAM in Firefox 3 to avoid an steady increase of memory usage of Firefox during a session. The only thing that was not optimal was that the user had to press a button to clear the RAM. An automatic solution [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Many users had a problem with memory usage in Firefox 2 and although Firefox 3 was further optimized it still seems to be a problem for some users. Something that I do not understand for instance is the problem that RAM usage of Firefox is always increasing over time but never decreasing much. I was [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox, Music and Video

Would you use a program that would reduce the memory usage of Firefox to 100-200 Kilobyte ? I have no idea how the Firefox Ultimate Optimizer is reducing the memory usage to this amount but the task manager is verifying the reduction. Firefox has been using roughly 40 Megabytes of RAM whenever I started it and one homepage was loaded.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

Many users seem to have the feeling that the memory consumption of Firefox seems to get out of hand after a certain perdiod of continued web browsing. It is however not that easy to determine the exact cause that seems to slow down Firefox after a while. I try to give some insights in possible solutions to those slow downs – they might help in some cases but could change nothing in others.

Categories: Browsing, Firefox