January 13th, 2009
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Exhibit A: Firefox, open with 6 tabs, light usage, closed frequently, 330 MB of memory. Exhibit B: Opera, open with 8 tabs, heavy use, 150 or so tabs in history that can be reopened quickly from a convenient menu, built-in IMAP client, never closed, 59 MB of memory.
The memory leaks are fixed? Mmkay.
January 14th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
The key in finding out if there is actually a memory leak is not to do anyithing with the application for some time–then check back later to see if it the memory footprint has grown. Now as to Firefox being massively wasteful in memory managment–I’d have to agree.
Out of curiosity–are you using any firefox plug-ins? if so which ones/how many?
January 15th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
I hadn’t done anything with it for several hours. I usually keep 3-4 tabs open of my regular stuff, not memory-intensive pages at all. I do have about 15 add-ons, but they’re typical–Adblock, mouse gestures, Firebug, Session Saver, User agent switcher, web developer toolbar (all of which are included in Opera)…a little weather app, nothing massive at all.
Mostly, I just hate Gecko, it’s slow, annoying and overrated.
February 12th, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Today’s usage: Opera, 17 tabs, heavy use: 230MB. Firefox, 4 tabs, no use in 24 hours: 200MB.
After a restart of FF, it’s down to 100MB, which is less shit than usual, but opening one more tab and reloading another, it’s already at 136MB.