Firefox 7 to Use as Much as 50 Percent Less Memory

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With Firefox 6 with a foot barely out of the door, word is already out about Firefox 7. Versions of Firefox have been appearing at shorter intervals than ever before, so it will only be a matter of weeks before FF 7 makes its appearance. The word is 7 will be much faster while using up to 50% less memory than FF 6. At least they could have waited until its release this week to start touting its replacement. :D

In particular, Firefox 7′s memory usage will stay steady if you leave it running overnight, and it will free up more memory when you close many tabs."
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Maybe it leaks instantly and fills up the ram within a few minutes, so if you leave it overnight the ram can't increase!

Hmm...but it uses 50% less memory...programming is damned complicated sometimes!
 
MajorDomo said:
With Firefox 6 with a foot barely out of the door, word is already out about Firefox 7. Versions of Firefox have been appearing at shorter intervals than ever before, so it will only be a matter of weeks before FF 7 makes its appearance. The word is 7 will be much faster while using up to 50% less memory than FF 6. At least they could have waited until its release this week to start touting its replacement. :D
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Fixed.
 
personally i think whole number version advances should be reserved for huge changes... but meh.. and update is an update...
 
I agree, minor changes or those that are transparent to the user should be 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 etc and major changes particularly to the GUI can bump up an entire number to help better manage expectations.

And with regard to memory usage, firefox is perfect fine when I first open it. But its the damn leaks that I can't tolerate, to where it ends up taking 700megs if I don't completely close it every once in a while. Chrome and IE don't do that, so get cracking at the root of the issue guys.
 
Hmm I don't know about this. I'm using Firefox 8 alpha 1 pre and there is no less memory usage yet.
 
who really cares about memory usage these days? you can get 16Gb of ram for less than $100 before rebates. At that price just throw more ram at the problem....
 
SirMaster said:
Hmm I don't know about this. I'm using Firefox 8 alpha 1 pre and there is no less memory usage yet.
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That's cause Firefox 8 is really Firefox 6 because Firefox 7 isn't finished enough yet. :rolleyes: Changes put into Firefox 7 aren't in Firefox 8. At least that's how I understand it.
 
yeah toss me in the WTF boat... FF3 was out forever, 4 came out, then before you know it next upgraded went to 5... now 6 and 7?

And why the fuck did they remove the ability to keep your history for a specific time... kind of annoying to have some website I viewed a few months ago still pop up when I start typing "asian school girl whores" :D
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compslckr said:
who really cares about memory usage these days? you can get 16Gb of ram for less than $100 before rebates. At that price just throw more ram at the problem....
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I hope you forgot the sarcasm tags and not being serious about this.
 
niconx said:
That's cause Firefox 8 is really Firefox 6 because Firefox 7 isn't finished enough yet. :rolleyes: Changes put into Firefox 7 aren't in Firefox 8. At least that's how I understand it.
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Aurora (v7) = Chrome's Dev build
Beta (v6) = Chrome's beta.
Nightly (v8)= Chronium builds. (in other words things here may not make it past this point)
 
SirMaster said:
Hmm I don't know about this. I'm using Firefox 8 alpha 1 pre and there is no less memory usage yet.
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Same here, Right now mem usage is at 1.10GB. It only goes down when FF is rebooted and then soon after, up it goes. Of course I have 36 tabs open...
 
I'm all for constant improvement, better that they constantly improve it rather than let it be the same.

It's only a version number after all.
 
I thought they got the memory issue fixed a version or two back. I know Im not having any problems with Firefox using too much RAM anymore. But I dont leave it open 24/7.
 
compslckr said:
who really cares about memory usage these days? you can get 16Gb of ram for less than $100 before rebates. At that price just throw more ram at the problem....
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Which is exactly why we have such shitty programming practices in the first place.

Firefox should have fixed their memory issues back in v2 instead of waiting several years to get around to it.

50% less is still about 600% too much.
 
Umm, yeah. I dont want to have to go out and buy 16GB of RAM to surf the internet.
 
One of the main reasons I left firefox was the insane memory usage. The other was the fact that Chrome loaded websites so much faster.

to me this is too little too late.
 
I believe it. I've been using Aurora for months now. It's faster than any browser I've used. The HWA is even better than IE9.
 
JokerCPoC said:
Same here, Right now mem usage is at 1.10GB. It only goes down when FF is rebooted and then soon after, up it goes. Of course I have 36 tabs open...
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i routinely have more than 100 tabs open in Opera (RSS reader for various site, checked once a night ~ 200 items, roughly open half of them). less than 1.5gb usually

right now roughly 30 tabs at 500mb, with a "back history closed tab" of 200 items(can reopen the tab with full history).... opera opens faster than firefox even when firefox only has 3 tabs and opera has 20...
 
Would that make 6 twice as large as 5's memory usage? :p

That's cool, Still a happy firefox user. Try leaving 20 tabs with fidler2 running all weekend.... heh
 
niconx said:
That's cause Firefox 8 is really Firefox 6 because Firefox 7 isn't finished enough yet. :rolleyes: Changes put into Firefox 7 aren't in Firefox 8. At least that's how I understand it.
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That's just weird. My head is spinning now. I always found time travel confusing.
 
Don't care what Fire Fox number it is. It can be FF27 for all I care. I just don't want all the weird problems that 4 and 5 have.
 
It's not the RAM number. I couldn't care less if it says 500Mb or 2.5Gb either, but leave your browser open for a day or two with a number of tabs and watch the REAL WORLD performance turn to shit. It starts stuttering and playing up constantly.

I just switched to IE9. I've officially given up on Firefox and it's speed issues. It constantly has speed issues with YouTube as well which is probably one of my most visited sites.
 
Coulda swore I just switched from 3.6 to Firefox 5 less than a month ago. I'm all for updates and stuff but damn, seems like they are jumping ahead of themselves with this revision number game.
 
200 tabs? Leaving the browser open for days? You guys have some ODD usage patterns.

I'm still using FF3.whatever, and I'm at 271 megs usage (105 from the plugin container alone.) I write software that has to be up for months at a time (Industrial Automation). I couldn't imagine trying to have that kind of uptime on something as dynamic as a browser, nevermind with third party plugins.

And Firefox needs to give up on the new revision number system. I use major.minor.build on my apps, and I have maybe 30 instances of the app running in total.
 
compslckr said:
who really cares about memory usage these days? you can get 16Gb of ram for less than $100 before rebates. At that price just throw more ram at the problem....
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depends, intended memory usage (caching large stuff for example) would be acceptable, but memory leaks and dirty code ( program is taking up memory coz it keeps duplicating the phrase "Hello World" in RAM for example ) even with a bit of memory leak that would actually slow down a system considerably.
 
synapsis said:
200 tabs? Leaving the browser open for days? You guys have some ODD usage patterns.

I'm still using FF3.whatever, and I'm at 271 megs usage (105 from the plugin container alone.) I write software that has to be up for months at a time (Industrial Automation). I couldn't imagine trying to have that kind of uptime on something as dynamic as a browser, nevermind with third party plugins.

And Firefox needs to give up on the new revision number system. I use major.minor.build on my apps, and I have maybe 30 instances of the app running in total.
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Some of us work on a PC for living.. I leave multiple reference documents etc open on my PC during projects. Projects which span days/weeks. I don't want to close them all and have to re-find material/pages.

During those times Firefox generally slows to a crawl.
 
Lazy_Moron said:
I hope you forgot the sarcasm tags and not being serious about this.
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No, that is the correct response.

I'm an old fart from back in the days when you paid $200 for a single 8 megabyte stick of RAM. So the idea of a web browser using hundreds of megabytes of RAM seems really stupid. But sometimes you have get over it and drag yourself into the modern world. When you can buy 16 Gig of DDR3 RAM for $99 who cares how much memory Firefox uses?
 
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