Firefox RAM Usage

Marelo · 03-08-2009, 08:57 AM

As my Firefox usage goes on, it gobbles up more and more MB of my RAM for seemingly no reason. I have 4GB of RAM, yet it gets to the point where Firefox starts visibly lagging in a periodic and frequent manner.

By the time it gets REALLY annoying, Task Manager usually says it's at 650,000-700,000KB. A quick reset of Firefox makes it go back to 100,000... But there's got to be a better way, even though Google tells me nothing.

My copy of Firefox is a standard 3.0 install, with automatic updates on, and I'm running it on Vista 64-bit. Here's a picture of my extensions:

I use no theme.

Help?

03-08-2009, 08:57 AM	#1
Marelo Napoleon Impersonator Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Kansas Posts: 816	Firefox RAM Usage As my Firefox usage goes on, it gobbles up more and more MB of my RAM for seemingly no reason. I have 4GB of RAM, yet it gets to the point where Firefox starts visibly lagging in a periodic and frequent manner. By the time it gets REALLY annoying, Task Manager usually says it's at 650,000-700,000KB. A quick reset of Firefox makes it go back to 100,000... But there's got to be a better way, even though Google tells me nothing. My copy of Firefox is a standard 3.0 install, with automatic updates on, and I'm running it on Vista 64-bit. Here's a picture of my extensions: I use no theme. Help?