Okay fellow computer geeks. It always seems that Firefox uses 80%+ of the memory. It always seems to be like that no matter what OS of Windows I use. I have 4gig and its up to 96% memory usage. Any one have any thoughts on how to cut its memory usage? Any things I can check or uncheck to cut the memory usage. Thanks
4GB is a very small amount of memory by modern standards. You can add memory usually pretty cheaply. Firefox and Chrome will cache a large amount of data in memory to make the pages load faster. But if it is not slowing down anything, that is fine. Most new computers come with 8GB or 16GB.
True but it seems no matter how much memory I have Firefox seems to take most of it. The most I can have in this PC is 8gb and I know Firefox would still take 80% of it. Is there a setting in Firefox that controls the memory usage?
Thanks I will try to go through some of them. I am also getting a scripting error. Much like this one: A script on this page may be busy, or it may of stopped respoding. You can stop the script now, open the script in the debugger, or let the script continue. Script: resource//gre/modules/commonj...nsion/mutation-summary.js:109
I used to use Firefox, but started having similar issues and eventually just switched to Chrome. Once I got used to it, I stopped missing Firefox. You might want to give it a look.
My linux buddies say the memory problem is generally from add-ons and themes. Try disabling all those.
