323995 - FF Memory usage

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 259672

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[raptor]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051226 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051226 Firefox/1.5

As mentioned here :
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/25/1817215&tid=154&tid=156
http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-2005-11.html#moz-images

I too was amazed why FF grabs so much memory, is there a plans for working out this obvious problem ? 
Curently I have 9 tabs opened xrestop shows 15MB pixmaps and top 78MB. At work i noramally open at least 2 browsers with minimum 10 tabs on 512MB computer, which is a real waste !
To worser things even more when I close tabs, memory is not reclaimed for the system and i have to restart FF at least once week :( to free my memory for other apps.

I agree that this can slow FF abit 'cause it will have to take care of additional work, but what if it is made a Configuration option so that low-memory users can have a choice.

Many opinions on the internet i read point memory consumption as MAIN complain for FF and probably the main problem that can slowdown adoption of FF from power users and from there to the general public.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

See Bug 320192.

Comment 2

[raptor]

(In reply to comment #1)
> See Bug 320192.
> 

I had in mind overal memory usage of FF, not any concentrate memory-leak :)

Comment 3

[Kevin Brosnan]

see bug 259672 comment 20

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 259672 ***