X xenotaku macrumors regular Original poster Aug 30, 2005 246 1 Dec 3, 2007 #1 Why the heck does Safari use 300 megs of ram while firefox only uses a cool 80 megs? I really want to love you Safari, but you make it so hard. Why apple why?
Why the heck does Safari use 300 megs of ram while firefox only uses a cool 80 megs? I really want to love you Safari, but you make it so hard. Why apple why?
Catfish_Man macrumors 68030 Sep 13, 2001 2,579 2 Portland, OR Dec 3, 2007 #2 Read the Firefox forums on mozillazine some time. What you'll find is that both Safari and Firefox use anywhere between about 40 and 800MB, with no two people agreeing on how much exactly.
Read the Firefox forums on mozillazine some time. What you'll find is that both Safari and Firefox use anywhere between about 40 and 800MB, with no two people agreeing on how much exactly.
phungy macrumors 68020 Dec 5, 2006 2,398 10 FL/NY/TX Dec 3, 2007 #3 xenotaku said: Why the heck does Safari use 300 megs of ram while firefox only uses a cool 80 megs? I really want to love you Safari, but you make it so hard. Why apple why? Click to expand... I've wondered this too. Time to upgrade RAM to 4GB
xenotaku said: Why the heck does Safari use 300 megs of ram while firefox only uses a cool 80 megs? I really want to love you Safari, but you make it so hard. Why apple why? Click to expand... I've wondered this too. Time to upgrade RAM to 4GB
clevin macrumors G3 Aug 6, 2006 9,095 1 Dec 4, 2007 #4 xenotaku said: Why the heck does Safari use 300 megs of ram while firefox only uses a cool 80 megs? I really want to love you Safari, but you make it so hard. Why apple why? Click to expand... mac or windows version? ps. it all depends on if the system is slowing down becuase of this, not really about how much memory it takes. anyway, you need at least 1G memory to run tiger/leopard smoothly anyway.
xenotaku said: Why the heck does Safari use 300 megs of ram while firefox only uses a cool 80 megs? I really want to love you Safari, but you make it so hard. Why apple why? Click to expand... mac or windows version? ps. it all depends on if the system is slowing down becuase of this, not really about how much memory it takes. anyway, you need at least 1G memory to run tiger/leopard smoothly anyway.
X xenotaku macrumors regular Original poster Aug 30, 2005 246 1 Dec 4, 2007 #5 I have a MBP 2 gigs, 2.2mhz Safari always eats up memory on my system for some reason.
S SavageMac macrumors member Nov 21, 2007 90 0 Dec 4, 2007 #6 I agree, Safari is a monster & has chewed through upwards of 350MB of physical RAM. I don't user Safari anyway because it leaks x509 keys (security risk). FireFox for me
I agree, Safari is a monster & has chewed through upwards of 350MB of physical RAM. I don't user Safari anyway because it leaks x509 keys (security risk). FireFox for me