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Firefox

Oliver said:
I have no idea how in the world you managed to get Firefox using three quarters of your memory - How much RAM do you have???
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It seems to do a lot of caching. I quite commonly find it to be using 3/4 GB or so if it's been running for a while.
 
Oliver said:
I have no idea how in the world you managed to get Firefox using three quarters of your memory - How much RAM do you have???
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I have 3 GB of RAM.

I've given up on Firefox for now. I've been using Chrome the past week or so and have been quite satisfied.
 
For what it's worth, do a Google search for Firefox Ultimate Optimizer. It drastically reduces Firefox memory usage.
 
Agular said:
For what it's worth, do a Google search for Firefox Ultimate Optimizer. It drastically reduces Firefox memory usage.
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I'll give it a try.

I too have had the memory issue - I didn't realize it was caching, I figured it was a memory leak or something. I tend to have a lot of tabs open at once - 11 at this moment, for example.
 
WildCat said:
I have a really, really annoying problem with Firefox now. Hyperlinks and buttons go dead whenever I navigate to a new page or open another tab. I have to click on Firefox in the taskbar to minimize it, then again to show it again and all is well until I go to another page, and I have to click the taskbar twice again to get the hyperlinks and buttons to work.

I've tried opening Firefox in safe mode and disabling all add-ons, to no avail. Problem persists.

Anyone hear of this problem before? A web search reveals similar problems but not my exact one, all the others seem add-on related.
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Your problem is new to me unless there is a web-based script running within Firefox that slows down your whole system. But even then Firefox asks you to stop the problematic script... So even if people think [or experienced] that Firefox isn't the fastest, easiest and scam-free solution, I would never go back to Microsoft's IE, no matter what...
 
I forget how many times I have said this all across the internets...

Ditch adblock and noscript, you get better protection from admuncher. I dont even use spywareblaster and spybot S&D anymore, the worst thing I get is tracking cookies while using IE8.

http://www.admuncher.com/

The only bad thing about it is that it ain't free
 
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drainbread said:
And your point?

The thread is about Firefox on a Windows machine, Ad Muncher simply blows away the Firefox only solution and beyond since it works system wide.
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Several of us linux users have chimed in. My impression was the thread was about firefox in general.

A windows-only solution does me or Tsukasa Buddha (for example) no good.
 
Agular said:
For what it's worth, do a Google search for Firefox Ultimate Optimizer. It drastically reduces Firefox memory usage.
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No it doesn't. It just moves the usage from the RAM to the virtual memory (which is the disk drive). It also installs extra components into your FireFox program files folder, which I find questionable (I've heard it called malware, but no scans detect anything malicious and I see no phoning home anywhere). There is a small process that runs every few seconds that pages RAM space being used by FireFox.exe, and that's pretty much all it seems to be doing. The add-on seems to be making FireFox do more work, not less, and I would definitely not recommend this for a notebook user.
 
drainbread said:
And your point?

The thread is about Firefox on a Windows machine
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I thought this thread was about Firefox. Look, it says so right in the title.

Ad Muncher simply blows away the Firefox only solution and beyond since it works system wide.
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What do you mean by "blows away"? I use Adblock. I hardly ever see any ads. The ads that do slip through the filter are easily added. What does Admuncher do to add to that to make it "blow away" Adblock?

The only possible advantage I can see is that it works system wide. But it does so by acting as a local proxy filtering all traffic. That may not be the best thing.
 
erlando said:
I thought this thread was about Firefox. Look, it says so right in the title.
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The OP...

WildCat said:
So for the last month or so I've been using Firefox, since so many people say it's the shiznit.

I'm not impressed.

It does a terrible job of blocking popups, and it lets in all kinds of malware. My last anti-virus scan found 92 infections! Almost all tracking cookies, but still... I never had more than 2 or 3 infections using the latest version of IE.

And to top it all off, I am having shutdown problems (XP pro) that I have never had before and started the day I installed Firefox.

It does have a spell checker though, so it's got that going for it. but other than that, why the hell do people love Firefox so much? I'm on the verge of uninstalling it.

Anyone else have these issues?
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Besides, I suggest using Chrome in *nix, the last couple of Firefox versions have seemed really buggy and slow, the only reasons I don't use Chrome in Windows is because of the way it "feels" if that makes any sense.
What do you mean by "blows away"? I use Adblock. I hardly ever see any ads. The ads that do slip through the filter are easily added. What does Admuncher do to add to that to make it "blow away" Adblock?

The only possible advantage I can see is that it works system wide. But it does so by acting as a local proxy filtering all traffic. That may not be the best thing.
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It blocks everything annoying and leaves the page functional, it never confuses popups with new pages, it forces browsers to always have toolbars and the default height and width, it blocks "no right click" instructions, it prevents flash adverts, it prevents mouse over adverts, it makes ad filled pages load really fast without slowing down pages that don't have any adverts, I'm getting tired of listing features...

I get ZERO adverts, I reinstalled Windows on June 17, 2008 and as of right now Ad Muncher has blocked 4GB of garbage, in that time I have never had to add a site/page/specific advert.

I am in the land of advertising opt-out, the only browsing problem I have is tracking cookies but alas, I don't do online banking or pay any bills online, I have no need to buy anything online either, may name is nowhere on this computer, not even my email.

I surf where I want and I don't even get malware warnings, I've been to some fairly dubious websites and done so without worry or adverse affect.
 
drainbread said:
It blocks everything annoying and leaves the page functional, it never confuses popups with new pages, it forces browsers to always have toolbars and the default height and width, it blocks "no right click" instructions, it prevents flash adverts, it prevents mouse over adverts, it makes ad filled pages load really fast without slowing down pages that don't have any adverts, I'm getting tired of listing features...
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Adblock does this too. Add NoScript for extra goodness. All for free. All cross-platform.

I'm still waiting for that "OMG I'm blown away by Admuncher awesomeness"-feeling.
 
WildCat said:
I have a really, really annoying problem with Firefox now. Hyperlinks and buttons go dead whenever I navigate to a new page or open another tab. I have to click on Firefox in the taskbar to minimize it, then again to show it again and all is well until I go to another page, and I have to click the taskbar twice again to get the hyperlinks and buttons to work.

I've tried opening Firefox in safe mode and disabling all add-ons, to no avail. Problem persists.

Anyone hear of this problem before? A web search reveals similar problems but not my exact one, all the others seem add-on related.
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Another approach to get down to the problem you have: What internet-site[-s] is causing the problem[-s]? Are you seriously arguing that browsing the JREF forum does slow down your computer whenever you're using Firefox while you don't experience similar problems in other browsers given your hardware specifications???
 
GreNME said:
No it doesn't. It just moves the usage from the RAM to the virtual memory (which is the disk drive). It also installs extra components into your FireFox program files folder, which I find questionable.
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Which extra components does it install? (And I should have said 'supposedly' drastically reduces memory usage.) Does the same apply to Memory Fox?
 
drainbread said:
The OP...
It blocks everything annoying and leaves the page functional, it never confuses popups with new pages, it forces browsers to always have toolbars and the default height and width, it blocks "no right click" instructions, it prevents flash adverts, it prevents mouse over adverts, it makes ad filled pages load really fast without slowing down pages that don't have any adverts, I'm getting tired of listing features...
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How is this different to my experience using FF/adblock/noscript?
Don't want to get too off-topic, but even if the OP was using XP, this is still a digression. AD Muncher is non-free (in either sense) and useless to anyone not using Windows.

Regarding Chrome, I've been impressed recently with the number of extensions people have written (or ported), including adblock - it's shaping up quite quickly into a viable alternative for me.

Regarding memory usage - on a desktop PC, who gives a damn? I recognise that these things are important, just not in the context of the people who are complaining about it. If you had your task manager taken away from you and didn't know how much memory application X was using compared to application Y, the issue wouldn't come up. In fact, in some situations, the application which uses more memory may well be the "better" one from the user-experience point of view, and you may find that the competing apps that perform better on a netbook are the ones that perform worse on a modern desktop. It's not a direct comparison.
 
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