Yes, you're seeing that correctly. It's Firefox 2.0.0.12 using over a half the available memory on my machine. *sigh* I really can't wait for the final release of Firefox 3.
Monday, February 25, 2008
Firefox memory leak: using 1 GB+ RAM to surf the web
This screen shot was taken today from my Core 2 Duo iMac with 2 gigs of RAM:
Yes, you're seeing that correctly. It's Firefox 2.0.0.12 using over a half the available memory on my machine. *sigh* I really can't wait for the final release of Firefox 3.
Yes, you're seeing that correctly. It's Firefox 2.0.0.12 using over a half the available memory on my machine. *sigh* I really can't wait for the final release of Firefox 3.
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What program are you using to pull that info?
ReplyDeleteI totally want it.
It's called Activity Monitor and it's part of OS X. It's in the Utilities folder.
ReplyDeleteDitto on waiting for Firefox 3. I hear good things about it. I also heard that the new Safari is even more efficient, although if you're a plug-in fanatic like me, you probably will just stick with Firefox.
ReplyDeletePeter - Have you tried the Firefox 3 beta 3 download? DANG. Very fast. Most of the add-ons don't work (yet) but it's pretty darn stable and very, very speedy.
ReplyDeleteSafari is about as fast as the Firefox 3 beta (and launches much faster too, I might add). But, like you said, no add-ons and Google Browser sync is a deal-killer for me since I regularly use three different computers.
I've heard the webkit version of Safari is even faster.
And then there's IE7. *snort*
FF plugins are so last year.
ReplyDeleteYikes! They should really work on that!
ReplyDeleteCarlos - I definitely wouldn't put it past them.
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