Firefox - memory leech?

[old.user4556]

I've noticed my memory usage is a lot higher than I would expect it to be, and firefox appears to be the main culprit of that.

If I have three browser windows open, it's using close to 100 meg of system ram. Similarly, the "downloads" box (which I have cleared) appears to use ~60 meg of system ram on it's own without even having any browser windows open.

Is this normal? Has it always been a massive leech on ram?

 

[Alan]

--- posted this on our guild forum some time ago, may be usefull ---

As most browsing is done using the FORWARD/BACK buttons firefox caches the render generated by the webpage, it does this for each tab you have open and allocates resources (so faster forward/back processing) so the more tabs you have open the more memory firefox will use. If you want to stop this cache just go to a url of about:config in your firefox browser, scroll down to browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers and change it to 0

 

[old.user4556]

Thanks Tears, i'll give that a try - a quick google seems to reveal a few problems with firefox literally eating as much ram as it can get.

 

[Alan]

Thanks Tears, i'll give that a try - a quick google seems to reveal a few problems with firefox literally eating as much ram as it can get.

Yeah alot of them are due to the above, people assume firefox has a memory leak but infact its just using what it gets to store cache for faster browsing, give it a go anyway - cant hurt