Firefox Memory Usage

[Gregg Bolinger]

As much as I like FF it's memory usage is horrible. I have the following addons installed:

Clippings
Colorful Tabs
ColorZilla
Firebug
Form Saver
GMarks
Map This
Web Developer

I've had FF open since about 8 this morning doing my typical web development along with Javaranch, Digg, and a few other non-intrusive sites. No applets, no Flash, etc.

Right now, I am sitting at 150MB. Granted this isn't terribly accurate since it is Windows Task Manager. But still...

Anyone have any tips for reducing this aside from closing FF and removing addons?

[Ulf Dittmer]

I don't think it's the plugins. I noticed that using applets makes it much worse (of course, that could be the JVMs fault), but even without them, FF just uses a lot of memory (and seems to leak some of it).

[Satish Chilukuri]

This page seems to have some pointers. (I haven't tried them myself). There's also another page listing some common problems caused by extensions.

[Eric Pascarello]

Make sure you only run Firebug when needed. Do not have it on all the time.

Eric

[Gregg Bolinger]

I've actually been doing that today. I never noticed it as an issue. The report says it's just CPU cycles. I haven't noticed any decrease in memory. Performance hasn't really been an issue for me. Mainly just memory usage which translates somewhat into performance for the rest of my running apps.

[Peter Rooke]

This may help (a bit)