Firefox does not have a memory “bug”, but here’s how you improve mem usage
July 11, 2006 at 12:00 am | Posted in Firefox, Mozilla | 147 CommentsPlease See:Speed Up Firefox 2.x
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Hello,
Thank you very much. I did all the reconfigurations as you suggested and am hoping it will work for me. I do realise that the month of July is the month of browser bugs so do not expect to see Firefox loading much faster for now.
I chanced upon your site when I was searching for an answer as to why when I minimised one Firefox window whilst having another opened on Desktop, after a few minutes, the minimized window would sort of flash (sorry, this is the best description I can give) across my Desktop- I don’t see the window (the minimised one that ‘flashed’) as such but when I try to restore the minimized window, it can only be restored to Maximum size and not the original size that I had it opened in the first place. Would you have an answer as to why this happens? Sorry if this sounds garbled. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I am running Firefox 1.5.0.4
Many thanks again.
Comment by Jasmine Lin— July 27, 2006 #
Be careful with “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” as some websites may block your IP if you attempt to many requests as its a huge resource drain for the server.
A better option would be the “FasterFox” plugin for FireFox, which does the tweaks for you in a non-destructive way.
Comment by LazyMoon— October 14, 2006 #
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Pingback by links for 2006-10-14 « Donghai Ma— October 14, 2006 #
A lot of performance problems are caused by problems with extensions,
I’m sure this’ll be very useful for many people:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Problematic_extensions
Comment by meitsjustme— October 14, 2006 #
Do any of these “twaeks” work or help with other Mozilla browsers? I am specifically interested in Seamonkey, and could really stand to improve performance on my very s-l-o-o-o-w machine (I CAN’T switch to Firefox because some very out-of-date software causes dependency problems).
Comment by Jim Hartley— October 14, 2006 #
the tweaks used to work on early versions of Flock, and they work in Swiftfox. They work in early verisons of Camino too. But i never tried them on Mozilla or Seamonkey.
Comment by digduality— October 14, 2006 #
Have previously made all the config settings you suggest and most do very little. The minimize hack doesn’t work at all. Checked system memory useage and with 4 tabs open it’s 339 megabytes, after minimizing — still 339 megabytes. Closed all tabs — still 339 megabytes. Quit, opened 4 different pages — 690 megabytes. Minimized — 690 megabytes. Closed all tabs — 690 megabytes. Waited 10 minutes with no browser windwo open at all — 690 megabytes.
I’m not enough of a tech geek to know why it hogs and keeps so much open system memory, but it does, even with every one of the listed hacks in place.
I love Firefox for many reasons, but speed isn’t one of them. It really is glacially slow compared to IE and Opera.
Comment by Koowan— October 14, 2006 #
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[…] Element14 blog published some settings that should reduce memory usage in Firefox. I’m currently testing those settings, So I don’t know yet if they work or not. I like Firefox as it’s a very stable application. But it’s frustating sometimes, when you look at process memory usage: sometimes Firefox end using about 200 MB. This Memory problem with Firefox explains why I’m still using Maxthon. Maxthon’s memory usage never exceed 50 MB (it’s what I noticed from my experience). I tried many settings n the Firefox config windows to reduce those “memory leaks”. But none were really efficient. Let’s see if those new settings works. The Firefox Memory Usage FQA contains also useful information about known leaking Firefox extension. Share and Enjoy:These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. […]
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I would hesitate from applying either the fasterfox or the pipelining hack listed – it’s very poor ettiquette for a webuser. The multiple requests all hammer the web page’s server, and if multiple users are all pipelining, it degrades performance for everyone else. Often times it will result in your ip being banned by an admin if it’s noticed.
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Sorry to burst your bubble but fx does have quite a few memory leaks and then some thanks to poorly coded extensions! Install the leak monitor extension and you’ll be bugged to a point about memory leaks that you would end up uninstalling it.
Take a look at:
http://dbaron.org/mozilla/leak-monitor/
Comment by Sachin— October 14, 2006 #
[…] Anyway, I came across an article that detials how to improve the (already nice) performance of FF. I haven’t tried the tips yet, but, it seems promising, and, I note the article here for future experimenting. […]
Pingback by Web Glad.Com » Blog Archive » Speed Up And Improve Firefox— October 15, 2006 #
network.http.pipelining.maxrequests maximum is 8 I think
Comment by Joaquin— October 15, 2006 #
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Pingback by ТЁМА.ее » Архив » it’s not a bug— October 15, 2006 #
Cable Vision, my broadband ISP recently introduced an improvement in their already high speed service with OPtimum Boost which has been clocked at up to 30 Mbps downstream and up to 5Mbps upstream so my service is about as fast as you can get this days for home subscribers., and my computer’s hgot 1G RAM and 3.0 Pentium chip so its pretty fast.
I was very excitedly pleased to see a significant improvement
in the performance of the way this thing moves!!
This post is several months old so I do hope you get to see this in accepting my utmost thanks and appreciation for posting this.
You know, its seldom that you get to see real benefit from
all the tips , tweaks and tech advice accumulated from all over the web in the past few years but this, this has made more of difference than all of them combined.
Thanks again very much,
Comment by Michael Savoy— October 15, 2006 #
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Notice how the ONLY bad thing most can say about Firefox is that it has a “memory leak”. The fact that it is far superior in standards support and customization means nothing. All the great extensions available for it isn’t enough to make them at least say, hey this is great. It seems like those who pounce on anything pro-firefox with the obligatory “memory leak” reference can’t find anything negative to say about it so that’s all they can come up with.
Comment by SillyWampa— October 15, 2006 #
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Pingback by links for 2006-10-15 | Musings by Steve Miller— October 15, 2006 #
Firefox memory leaks are a bigger problem than people realize the discussion of which has been ruminating for several months about the frequent Firefox crashes associated with the substantial memory leaks .
I was particularly prone to the frequent inexplicable crashes
throughout the day for several weeks because i just love having all of the very latest Firefox extension/ add-on, browser gizmos as soon as they come out not having ever heard of memory leaks and neither did anyone of those so-called Mozilla genius administrators at the Mozilla Firefox
forums site at the time.
The crashes always nearly occurred as I was trying to
log on to g-mail and i soon find out that the firefox google toolbar was particulary susceptible to memory leaks.
While the situation did improve after i dumped the Google Toolbar and other power hogging extensions the power drain as a result of Firefox’s overall problem was something I always aware of with its sloth-like browser performance
Still ,the memory leak problem is uppermost in Mozilla’s
mind with a Firefox memory leak detector extension and the
Nightly Tester Tool extension has an option to detect
memory leaks.
My memory leak problem was eventually resolved after discovering this excellent guide to dealing with the problems
associated with it available here;
CyberNet Technology news
This May Help Your FF Memory leak
March 26 ,2006
http://tech.cybernetnews.com/2006/03/26/this-may-help-your-firefox-memory-leak/
Comment by Michael Savoy— October 15, 2006 #
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers
Comment by lostlogic— October 15, 2006 #
It may not be faulty coding, but it’s certainly faulty design…
When Firefox is busy consuming most of the memory on a machine and forcing it to a slow crawl because the OS spends so much time thrashing, for a use case that’s represents only 39% of user behaviour then it’s a bug…
Comment by Andy Davies— October 15, 2006 #
Nice to know it’s not a bug… especially as my intuition tells me that when a program like Fifrefox hogs 250 MB, then it’s certainly not working very effectively. And if I then click on exit, Firefox uses at least 95 of my processor power and I have to end the process. 😦
If that isn’t a bug, I don’t know what is.
Martin
Comment by Martin Cleaver— October 15, 2006 #
Ok SillyWampa, I’ll bite.
Nowhere in any of the content did I see an assault on the quality of Firefox compared to the competition. What I have seen are people who are interested in improving the product pointing out some areas that need to be addressed to make it an even better product. Please take the trolling elsewhere. Thank you.
Not in any way a proponent of any thing. Just annoyed at trolls.
Comment by rich (richmanwisco)— October 15, 2006 #
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Content.notify.backoffcount
“content.notify.ontimer must be set to true for this preference to take effect.”
Comment by l0k1— October 15, 2006 #
Keep in mind that IE is built into the OS. Firefox is not. If IE was a standalone browser I am sure it will consume the same amount of memory as FF. IE7 has comparable memory usage as FF.
Comment by eddie— October 15, 2006 #
Argh …. would the people who install masses of extensions please leave the planet.
Now
No, really – just leave …. thanks.
Comment by Jon— October 15, 2006 #
Thanks! Tried ti out and it works well!
Comment by mark— October 15, 2006 #
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Thanks for the nice article. I’ve posted about it in my blog along with a maybe usefull idea about how to improve/fix this whole situation. http://www.alexandre-gomes.com/?p=91
Comment by Alexandre Gomes— October 15, 2006 #
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The minimize one really works! Thanks 🙂
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Firefox is simply unusable on my computer, even after applying each of the changes in the aritcle Firefox took five minutes to go from Google the default home page to digg.
Something is wrong and it is no use living in denial!!
Comment by Joe Q— October 15, 2006 #
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Holy cow….I thumb this site via stumbleupon after linking to it from digg….
These changes really sped up FF beyond belief, unreal. So useful, thanks very much for providing these tweaks.
Comment by Tony J— October 15, 2006 #
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Thanks for the great piece of information. I followed the instruction , and I’ll see how fast it will load once I restart FF.
Comment by Keith— October 15, 2006 #
Thanks for the great piece of information. I followed the instruction step by step, and I’ll see how fast it will load once I restart FF.
Comment by Keith— October 15, 2006 #
many thanks!
Comment by papo— October 15, 2006 #
“The fact that it is far superior in standards support and customization means nothing. — SillyWampa”
Actually, if you really want to be truthful:
Opera’s standards support is superior to Firefox.
Firefox 2.0 RC2 still can’t pass the Acid2 test.
I personally have been a Firefox user since 0.2 so keep that in mind if you respond.
Regardless, talk about standards compliance & customization are completely off topic in this particular instance as the topic is about memory usage.
As richmanwisco stated, people simply want to improve Firefox by pointing out various issues that they have found and believe needs to be addressed.
Comment by Moparx— October 15, 2006 #
Ah… Very nice. Thank you very much for these tweaks. 🙂
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I use Fasterfox with a few tweaks. Set the plugin for “optimized performance” then set the values of “network.http.max-connections-per-server, persistant-connections-per-proxy, persistant-connections-per-server, and pipelining.maxrequests” all to a value of 6. Then do the “initialpaintdelay” tweak. You’ll get decent performance without pounding someone’s poor server.
Comment by Corvair Kid— October 16, 2006 #
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Thanks for sharing such a useful article.
Thanks
Comment by Tulip4Heaven— October 16, 2006 #
If this was IE, You all would be screaming memory hog and bugs.
But being FF you call it a feature and point to hack to make things better.
Such hypocrisy. Seriously these issues dont occur with Opera or even IE7.
Is the mozilla engine showing its weakness?
Comment by Bill— October 16, 2006 #
[…] Como el editor gráfico de wordpress.com no anda muy bien en Opera, vengo usando un poco más el Firefox para tales menesteres, y también padeciendo muchos de sus achaques archiconocidos, como los famosos memory leaks o su lentitud comparada con otros navegadores. Para el resto Opera sigue siendo la mejor opción en cuanto a velocidad/comodidad/manejo, sería muy difícil tener abiertas enFirefox la misma cantidas de páginas que suelo abrir en Opera. En este caso, en el blog element14 tenemos una serie de consejos concisos y fáciles para configurar Firefox de manera tal que suframos menos estos problemas. Hoy lo probé y mejoró bastante la performance del zorrito. […]
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I did all and hopefully it’s will help 🙂
Comment by Planet Malaysia— October 16, 2006 #
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Pingback by Ian Scott » Blog Archive » Firefox does not have a memory “bug”, but here’s how you improve mem usage— October 16, 2006 #
it’s a bug. =oP
Comment by echostorm— October 16, 2006 #
thanx man!!!
very helpfull
Comment by burc— October 16, 2006 #
Thank you, that’s awesome. It would be great if Firefox included some of these options in the config dialogue in the future. One can hope!
Comment by David Oftedal— October 16, 2006 #
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I did the minimize trick, and watched my memory decline immediately from 38M to 5M. But then it climbed right back up — I’m guessing the javascript mail-app doesn’t like getting trimmed.
So a return to pre-minimization doesn’t mean a bug in the browser itself, it could be the app you’re running.
Comment by JimDesu— October 16, 2006 #
BS. Firefox has memory bugs and your optimizations do nothing for the problems that I see with it. Try opening a few web pages in firefox, then leave firefox running for a week straight. If your computer is still running at full speed, you can tell me that Firefox doesn’t have memory issues. Just leaving Firefox up and running (whether minimized or not) for any length of time will kill your system. I’m willing to bet that a system with Firefox running for a month without closing the page would make the entire system unusable until firefox is closed.
That being said, I still love firefox and use it exclusively at home, I just wish they would fix the memory leaks.
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I’ll stick with IE…I’ve been using it forever (Win3.11) and I like it.
I’ve tried Netscape and Opera over the years and recently Firefox.
I don’t care for tabs… and I have noticed it is less taxing on my system (AMD Athlon 3800 with 1 gig of RAM) to have five or six windows of IE6 open than to have five or six tabs open on FF.
Just my two cents…..
Comment by IE user— October 17, 2006 #
thanks man… did everything, and my mem usage dropped from 300 for 4 tabs to 36 for 4 tabs… all pages load faster.. I did notice there is now a pause before the page loads, but then bam its all loaded.. thanks
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I have got fed up with FireFox being so slow. This is why I left IE. Now it seems IE is faster than FireFox ! After trying several FireFox fixes I just got fed up and tried Opera. 1st impresion was like moving from Word to OpenDoc, but it’s really fast and now that I’ve found the widgets .. I’ll be only keeping FireFox for the sites which don’t load so well in Opera. FireFox I thought you were great, but Opera has won my heart, there web site supports the product much more professionaly too. I recomend you all try it, it does thing like zoom page and F11 does FULL screen …
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[…] Bu haberin tamamı; Kill the amount of RAM Firefox uses for it’s cache feature Here’s how to fix it: 1. type “about:config” (no quotes) in the browser. 2. Find browser.sessionhistory.ma x_total_viewer 2. set it’s value to “0″ Increase the Speed in Which Firefox loads pages 1.Type “about:config” into the address bar and hit return. Normally the browser will make one request to a web page at a time. When you enable pipelining it will make several at once, which really speeds up page loading. 2. Alter the entries as follows: Set “network.http.pipelining” to “true” Set “network.http.proxy.pipel ining” to “true” Set “network.http.pipelining. maxrequests” to some number like 30. This means it will make 30 requests at once. 3. Lastly right-click anywhere and select New-> Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.de lay” and set its value to “0″. This value is the amount of time the browser waits before it acts on information it receives. If you’re using a broadband connection you’ll load pages faster now More options for your about:config (you might have to create some of these entries by Right Click –> New– > Interger or String network.dns.disableIPv6: set “false” “content.notify.backoffco unt”: set “5″ “plugin.expose_full_path” : set “true”. “ui.submenuDelay”: set “0″ (zero) Kill RAM usage to 10mb when FF is minimized This little about:config hack will drop Firefox’s RAM usage down to 10 Mb when minimized 1. Open Firefox and go to the Address Bar. Type in about:config and then press Enter. 2. Right Click in the page and select New -> Boolean. 3. In the box that pops up enter config.trim_on_minimize. Press Enter. 4. Now select True and then press Enter. 5. Restart Firefox. Ok I hope this makes a few people’s browsing experience a bit better with Firefox and debunks a myth about their being a bug. Firefox does not have a memory “bug”, but here’s how you improve mem usage element14 Her yamur yamas annda gkyzne bakarm, illa bir yerlerde olan bir ktln temizlenmesi iin alyordur doa derim. nk temizleyemezse ve gitmeyeceine inanrsa, kar yadrp zerini rter unutulsun diye. MSN: pattawatommie@hotmail.com | permalink kymophobia Ayya$ Profiline Bak kymophobia ‘e zel mesaj gnderin kymophobia’web sayfasn ziyaret et kymophobia’in btn mesajlarn bul « Korsan BSA | – » […]
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The hack about reducing ram usage when minimized doesn’t work with my firefox. As soon as I minimize the window, memory usage goes from 55 Mb to 5 Mb but quickly it returns to the same high level as before.
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Cheers for the info Element, I remember being shown this stuff previously but in my last format lost all the settings and couldn’t remember how 😛
As for some of you others, wth are you doing wrong ? the only thing on my pc that leaks memory is everquest 2 and the only time my pc shuts down is if I have a power out or run out of things to d/l. Never had a problem with FF using lots of memory and ebay browsing can require many open pages.
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Okay I see a lot of people saying some of these things don’t work but I just applied all the changes mentioned here and my browser is now a lot faster and when I minimize FF it takes the memory usage down to 10% of the open memory usage amount!!! try these out they’re worth it!!
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[…] At home, I’ve also done some performance tuning involving pipelining. This entry on the element14 blog talks about bout the max_total_viewer and pipelining tweaks. It also claims that the Firefox memory leak bug is a myth and that the max_total_viewer setting stops it. I haven’t taken enough time to examine the effects of these changes, but I doubt that. I definitely think there are memory leaks in Firefox. […]
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