Anyone have a solution for the Firefox 2.0 memory hog issue?

[At Large]

I was noticing the other day that Firefox 2.0 was clocking in at an ungodly 110 megs of memory. Anyone know why and have a solution to drop that puppy down a bit?

[Mister Bushice]

Are you using a lot of extensions? The mozilla people said they addressed some of the previous mem hog problems, but that the 3rd party extensions were still an issue with memory usage.

There were a couple of things you could do with earlier versions. I seemed to remember it was PSU posting a really good FF adjustment here that helped quite a bit in that department. That was earlier this year I believe.

I'm unwilling to upgrade until I see some kind of a report card on the out of the gate issues with 2.0

[At Large]

Now that you mentioned it, I did install an plugin that allows you to play mp3s in the footer area. I think I'll remove it. I noticed that at work, my firefox 2.0 only uses about 30 megs of memory. Thanks for the tip.

[PSUFAN]

~bump

http://ajaxian.com/archives/mozilla-hunting-for-memory

[Mister Bushice]

tried DLing that VM validator mentioned in the article down below, it said it was free but it rejected my anon yahoo email address as not acceptable for credit validation. Eff it.

I'm going to check out opera, as FF has been running dog slow on me lately.

[BSmack]

Here's a link on the subject.

http://internetducttape.com/2006/12/02/ ... efox-hack/

[Mister Bushice]

did that work for you?

[BSmack]

did that work for you?

So far the best of the bunch appears to be the config.trim_on_minimize option. That has never failed to reduce Firefox's memory load. The others don't appear to be influencing my memory usage. But then again, I haven't had memory spike over 144 mb. I'm still tweaking with my settings on my laptop, so if I find anything else I'll post it.

[PSUFAN]

http://fasterfox.mozdev.org/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

or if you want to try things by hand:

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/speed-up-fire ... owser.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[PSUFAN]

Holy shit - I think fasterfox truly is the answer.

[ElTaco]

Apparently the real solution is/will be Firefox 3.0. Beta 2 is currently out for download if you want to test it. From some readings, it is estimated that it is much more memory efficient then FF 2 and IE 7. Already there is talk of FF 4 and how it will push the role of a browser.