Hello,
after the upgrade to portable firefox 8.0 I've experienced heavy ram-usage. With like 44 open windows I normally have ~1gb ram and 36% cpu (with you tube videos running) with firefox 7.0.1. System is amd e-350 cpu @1.6ghz and 8gb of ram on a 64bit win 7 pro os.
Running firefox 8.0 the cpu jumps up to ~60% cpu and >1,6gb ram (and rising). The comp nearly freezes and is barely able to handle typing in browser window with heavy lag.
Downgrading to 7.0.1 solved it for me, not sure what's the exact problem. Disabling/enabling every single add-on didn't help on 8.0.
Anyone else experienced those problems?
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Unlike previous releases, with the rapid release cycle, 8.0 fixes several security issues which affect 7.0.1 and will NEVER be fixed in a 7.x release. As such, you need to always upgrade to the latest version.
44 tabs open is excessive and possibly unnecessary. Have you considered using tab groups? I've found them very effective.
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Tab groups don't have a big impact on performance/resources needed for me.
Is it supposed to do so? Originally I was hoping for that when the feature came up in earlier build.
Tab groups that are not currently in the focused group aren't running and are not loaded when you start the browser, so they're great for performance.
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That's the way I was also thinking they'd be supposed to work like. Guess I will do a clean fresh install of OS and portable apps to see how it works out. Will report back! Thanks for the great support John!
That's actually pretty efficient memory usage, considering that 44 tabs are open. I don't think there were many changes in terms of memory between Firefox 7 and 8, so it seems weird that a previous version would use less memory.
Normal Firefox memory usage reported by Windows might be as high as 100-150 MB. These numbers will vary because Firefox is configured by default to use more memory on systems that have more memory available and less on systems with less. If you experience substantially more usage than this, there may be a problem, or you may just be viewing pages with large amounts of data.
- http://kb.mozillazine.org/Reducing_memory_usage_-_Firefox
Also, consider the above. You have 8 GB of RAM available, unless its full, your computer won't experience any performance hits from memory hungry applications.
As written, it's rather the cpu that gets wasted than the ram. Yet I can't make up the exact happenings when the cpu raises and the system gets slooow.
Will keep an eye on it.
After fresh install the groups are working at least and cpu won't get hammered as often as before.