Firefox memory hog?

[tecknical]

I'm currently using the Firefox 3.5 Beta4 version and it's a damn memory hog. It uses 600MB after a half an hour of browsing unless I restart it. Is this normal, or is there something wrong with my computer?

 

[clevin]

there is something wrong with ur firefox. it ormally uses much less than that.

are u visiting heavy duty flash sites? what addons do u have?

 

[lucamacis]

My Firefox 3 is using 160mb and its been on all day.

Maybe because it's a beta that its a memory hog?

 

[tecknical]

im actually using a couple of add-ons.

Autopager
ubiquity
weave
xmarks
download statusbar
stumble upon
1Password
Brief
Adblock Plus

 

[cluthz]

Firefox uses alot of memory on my system too!
I always have 10+ tabs open tho:

PID COMMAND      %CPU   TIME   #TH #PRTS #MREGS RPRVT  RSHRD  RSIZE  VSIZE
3793 firefox-bi  26.8% 12:33:22  47  1488   3286  905M+   84M   973M+ 1582M

At the moment it uses approx 970MB real memory and 1580MB VM

edit: it's the non-beta 3.0.10, adblock, a PDF viewer and downloadmanager is the only addons i have

 

[nick9191]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_leak

Firefox is notorious for them (although FF3 is better).

 

[cluthz]

It's definitely something fishy about Firefox memory handling, now 15 minutes later FF3.0.10 is using 1023MB ram and 2190MB VM .

 

[Aronnax]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_leak

Firefox is notorious for them (although FF3 is better).

Browser are notorious for them (although Firefox is the best)

http://dotnetperls.com/Content/Browser-Memory.aspx

 

[clevin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_leak

Firefox is notorious for them (although FF3 is better).

if you call firefox's memory management as notorious, then i guess you will have to use disastrous for others.

 

[tecknical]

if you call firefox's memory management as notorious, then i guess you will have to use disastrous for others.

out of all the browsers i use firefox seems to take up the most ram after a couple of hours.

 

[clevin]

out of all the browsers i use firefox seems to take up the most ram after a couple of hours.

Like I replied previously, I was stating the "generalized" normal situation, for your case, there is something wrong with your firefox, I suggest you create a new profile.