On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Isaac Dupree
On 05/31/10 00:18, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote:
Nope. I have 24 addons in Firefox. Just cannot leave firefox.
:)
then a thought--
Do you use very many tabs or windows simultaneously? If so, check Firefox's RAM usage -- e.g. for me, firefox making my system slow is all about it using up a large fraction of my RAM. The only way to avoid this, if it's an issue for you, is... - Get more RAM - use less tabs, or restart firefox every so often (this helps hugely..I suppose this means that firefox has memory leaks or such), or maybe avoid sites that slow down firefox (I think facebook is one of them) - think about addons. Some addons can make things worse. On the other hand, I bet Adblock Plus makes things better, because then the ads don't have to fill up your computer's memory, and maybe NoScript too.
Optimizing the code won't help RAM usage at all! GTK vs. QT might, but likely they both have to be loaded into your RAM already for other programs. Just check a system monitor like 'top' and see whether Firefox has lots of RAM usage, or CPU usage, or whatever you notice there.
-Isaac
I have disabled memory caching in firefox, so memory usage doesn't go beyond 250 M (6 tabs, the maximum for me usually). I am installing firefox-qt :D -- Nilesh Govindarajan Facebook: nilesh.gr Twitter: nileshgr Website: www.itech7.com