Fun with Firefox

jesus christ

499,188 K just won't do

i mean

i feel like these guys are approaching adobe levels of sheer arrogance and inattention to performance, cf avid

about:cache

my task manager is showing 380MB

about cache: is saying 316KB for in-memory cache

but i've got 8GB so i'm not scared of a piddling 380MB

seems like some huge entries from juno.co.uk are in the memory cache.. haven't visited in days though - how to clear?

restart firefox? it can't hold things in memory if it isn't running... (although it might write them to disk)

cache-viewer add-in is also handy, lets you see and delete (or save) individual entries.

i've restarted it several times since i visited juno

i will try cache viewer, chuckling inwardly at the idea of adding another plugin to suss out why ff is using so much RAM

Just go to Tools> Clear recent history > and select only "Cache" from the list of things to clear.

http://i649.photobucket.com/albums/uu216/le_bateau_ivre/Untitled.png

Whoa...

Admittedly, I have 24 tabs open. But still...

333K. And I closed everything and restarted yesterday afternoon so hardly any tabs.

My stupid URL glitch is still going on. So minor a problem, and yet so irritating.

182mb here, 10 tabs

On a Mac, 10 tabs, 560 MB

(FF5, cbf upgrading)

FF6, 31 tabs, 970k + plugin container 85k. Lol.

Why do you all have so many tabs open????

What else to do with them? I frequently visit all of them, nearly daily. It feels silly to bookmark them and open them manually every single day. Then there's links I stumble upon every day, open to read later etc.

Btw, the 970k Firefox is ridiculously lol hueg, but it doesn't noticeably slow my pc.

...but you have to click on the tabs manually?

i mean u can just put a bookmark button on a toolbar

Yeah, I suppose I could. I'm not saying my way is best, not at all, just explaining how I use FF. One new feature that has proven to be useful is the "pin as app tab" thing, which basically the same thing.

(are people confusing KB with MB here? the number quoted is in KB, typically 1000s or 100,000s of KB)

Why do you all have so many tabs open????

― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Thursday, August 25, 2011 9:31 PM (30 minutes ago) Bookmark

ya as a general rule i keep gmail, grooveshark, ilx, fb, and tweetdeck open all day & running, and in turn those 5 generate stuff for me to open in even more new tabs throughout the day

At work this week I've had 5-10 tabs open at any given time. At home, 4 in one set and maybe 6 or 7 others in a "someday" set.

I feel agitated having this many open, though that is changing as I realize that how I use my browser is changing.

Anyway, 10 seems like a lot to me, and 20+ would make me freak out.

Sometimes (maybe four times a year) I get to 30 and chuck a massive closing fit.

Oh yeah, I chopped off the last three digits and wrote K instead of M, but don't know if anyone else did

God I never have anymore than 5-6 tabes open at once, and thats at work where half of them are work related pages. Gmail's the only permanently-opened tab I really leave.

I've stuck with FF3.X on work and home machines. I'm not running into any problems at all. The only weird one now is at work, upgraded to Acrobat 9 and now FF randomly crashes when I try to open some PDFs.

God I never have anymore than 5-6 tabes open at once

gay thread or tmi imo

Yeah loled at my own typo I must admit.

Why does Firefox run perfectly fine on my XP computer at work, but like an absolute dog on my MacBook pro at home? I've had to resort to Chrome which is okay but I'd rather be using FF.

generally find both browsers run better on windows than osx

Why has an app telling me the temperature in Franktown, CO installed itself in my top bar?

updated the old instance of firefox on windows this morning.

the update page said flash was out of date, click here to update it.

the flash installer ALSO installed google chrome WITHOUT ASKING.

so now i have 4 browsers installed...

My Firefox did it again, upgraded to 6 without me asking it to; in fact, with me explicitly saying "Ask Later"

No more menu item for "View Source".. Years of muscle memory down the drain

^^ that has been bugging me to no end. Ctrl+U doesn't even work wtf!

ctrl-u...

i got the 'security updates' popup this morning and then it failed to find the update site. it's done this before. has it ever worked? or is the site in question just inundated by the gazillion firefox installations requesting updates?

Tools > Web Developer > Page source, no?

God, they're getting really douchey in their tickets: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657088

LOL

"Instead of hitting this strange key combo"

ha

http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2011/08/16/microsoft-sends-mozilla-tiny-cupcake-to-celebrate-small-firefox-release/

They should send a thank you card.

"Instead of hitting this strange key combo you can use Chrome"

which is what most people will do if all this keeps up

No doubt.

lol, microsoft are megadouches

Microsoft are just mad that no one wants to use their shitty browser.