On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Isaac Dupree <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/31/10 00:18, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: >> >> Nope. I have 24 addons in Firefox. Just cannot leave firefox. > > :) > > then a thought-- > > Do you use very many tabs or windows simultaneously? If so, check Firefox's > RAM usage -- e.g. for me, firefox making my system slow is all about it > using up a large fraction of my RAM. The only way to avoid this, if it's an > issue for you, is... > - Get more RAM > - use less tabs, or restart firefox every so often (this helps hugely..I > suppose this means that firefox has memory leaks or such), or maybe avoid > sites that slow down firefox (I think facebook is one of them) > - think about addons. Some addons can make things worse. On the other > hand, I bet Adblock Plus makes things better, because then the ads don't > have to fill up your computer's memory, and maybe NoScript too. > > Optimizing the code won't help RAM usage at all! GTK vs. QT might, but > likely they both have to be loaded into your RAM already for other programs. > Just check a system monitor like 'top' and see whether Firefox has lots of > RAM usage, or CPU usage, or whatever you notice there. > > -Isaac > I have disabled memory caching in firefox, so memory usage doesn't go beyond 250 M (6 tabs, the maximum for me usually). I am installing firefox-qt :D -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com
