firefox uses up a lot of ram

demon102 · #1 10-11-2007, 06:41 PM

after using firfor for a while on my pc it starts to use up all my cpu and I have to exit it and reopen it. When I reopen it, it doesnt use that much pcu. What can I do about this and y does it happen. I am using internet explorer now cuz firfox is annoying.

erbbysam · #2 10-11-2007, 07:34 PM

reinstall Firefox and only install the extensions that you need or just uninstall extensions. You can back up all your Firefox data... recently Firefox has become a bit buggy but there working to fix that I believe.

demon102 · #3 10-11-2007, 08:35 PM

what are extensions and how do I go about messing with all that? Is there a site to help me out?

a nonymous · #4 10-11-2007, 11:32 PM

If you don't know what extensions are, you probably don't have any installed.

splashpot · #5 10-11-2007, 11:35 PM

I don't know if there is a solution for this. Get more RAM? My FF does the same thing but I have enough RAM so it doesn't bother me.

jjshabado · #6 10-11-2007, 11:39 PM

Firefox uses a lot of RAM and has a number of memory leaks. Its just the way it is.

Rhett · #7 10-17-2007, 02:13 AM

Firefox feels slow for me on all of my computers, running linux and windows. Including my core 2 Duo E7200 machine with 2GB RAM.

Installing the fasterfox extension helps.

Also, if you want speed, opera is the fastest web browser for windows. Firefox has other benefits compared to opera though.