pcslookout
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- Mar 18, 2007
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Originally posted by: Chiefcrowe
Well without knowing too many tech details, I think the issue may lie in the fact that it is a 32 bit browser running in a 64 bit OS. Once a certain memory threshold is reached then there are slowdowns that the developers may not have anticipated testing for....
Originally posted by: pcslookout
Originally posted by: Chiefcrowe
I have a 2 GHZ AMD Athlon (i'm pretty sure), 1 GB Ram, XP Pro 32bit, with 10 Addons. right now it's using slightly less than 100 mb with 3 tabs. earlier it was up to around 200 mb ram.
That about what my older system is but it only has 512 MB of ram Really sucks but maybe sooner or later I will upgrade that ram to at least 1 GB, if it is even worth it. Anyway thanks for replying I really wish we could get to the bottom of this issue. It is driving me crazy how firefox works perfectly fine on one machine but not on the other. With the more powerful one having the problems. Sucks.
My main pc has 8 GB of ram I wouldn't care how much memory firefox used if it didn't slow down the rest of my system once it started using well over 900 MB to 1 GB + of ram. By the time it hits 1.1 to 1.5 GB of ram use firefox crashes. Guess because of the 2 GB 32 bit limit I don't know. Guess we all need a official 64 bit firefox soon so it can eat all 8 GB of people's ram. :laugh:
That really sucks if true. Must try a 32 bit OS again on my main PC, if I feel like it, to see if this is really the case. I hope not because I am forced to go to a 64 bit OS because I have 8 GB of ram unless I want to use 4.5 GB of that for a ram drive.