Firefox problems

[Jeros]

Now my little netbook is no the most powerful thing in world, 1.6ghz atom cpu, and a gig of ram. Not much, but enough to browse surely.

But for some reason firefox is taking up massive amounts of cpu time, when i go into the task manager i expect to see firefox taking up about 25k in mem useage, 45k at the most, but for some reason firefox goes up to about 400k sometimes, even with just the "downloads" bit open. I keep finding myself having to end firefox from the task manager as it is slowing my computer down to an total crawl. Anyone else getting this?

 

[GReaper]

Use Google Chrome?

More details on the netbook might help, it isn't one of the cheap ones with a poor solid state drive is it? If so then you'll need to tune the hell out of Firefox to avoid it accessing the disk.

If you really must stick with Firefox, disable as many add-ons as possible which you don't really need. Set the history down to a small amount, clear any completed downloads, find as many about:config tweaks as possible. Just remember it is an Atom CPU and really isn't designed for opening loads of tabs for the same browsing experience as your typical laptop/desktop.

 

[Jeros]

Use Google Chrome?

More details on the netbook might help, it isn't one of the cheap ones with a poor solid state drive is it? If so then you'll need to tune the hell out of Firefox to avoid it accessing the disk.

If you really must stick with Firefox, disable as many add-ons as possible which you don't really need. Set the history down to a small amount, clear any completed downloads, find as many about:config tweaks as possible. Just remember it is an Atom CPU and really isn't designed for opening loads of tabs for the same browsing experience as your typical laptop/desktop.

Nope standard hard drive :/

 

[ST^]

400Mb ram usage is pretty high, even for Firefox which has always been fairly bloated and leaky. I'd say either a rogue extension is doing it or, as is usually the case, Flash/Quicktime are having some sort of wild party.

Disable EVERYTHING (Extensions AND Plugins) and see if it's better. If it is, start enabling them one by one until you find the problem.

If all else phails, use Chrome

 

[Sparx]

Flash/Quicktime are having some sort of wild party.

I bet thats one hardcore party

 

[Jeros]

Ya im gonna give chrome a go, it gives me lots more screen real estate to boot