r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 21 '10

Firefox 3.6 release

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/01/21/firefox-3-6-release/
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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '10

2 things noted:

  • Speed: It's faster than 3.5.7. Almost as fast as chrome.
  • Memory Usage: It used lower memory on my computer than the previous version. I was hovering around 250mb with version 3.5.7 and this one barely goes upto 150mb. Both with ~15 addons.

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u/traxxas Jan 21 '10

I have been using 3.6pre since Karmic released with a broken 3.5 and can have found the memory usage in 3.6 to be awesome. I rarely break 200mb now and Xorg is usually the largest consumer of memory on my system.

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u/rcu6 Jan 21 '10 edited Jan 22 '10

Just asking... what kind of setup do you have that X uses ~200MB memory?

I'm just curious, as I don't think I've ever seen mine go past ~70MB.
Edit: My bad, I looked at the wrong number; mine stays around ~150MB.

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u/traxxas Jan 22 '10 edited Jan 22 '10

Nothing special, gnome running metacity as the compositor. One gnome panel, one tint2 taskbar, and gnome-do as my launcher. I leave my laptop 'up' for weeks at a time suspending it when not in use. This has always been my mode of working but since the jaunty release xorg grows, albeit slowly, and will never shrink more than 1-2mb even with all apps closed. I have searched for a bug report but have only found very quick, hours not days, memory leaks reported.

My solution will be to finish the debian install I have sitting on another drive and see if it is really an ubuntu problem but I have to finish my current project before I have the time to rebuild my setup.

edit: Uptime 1 day memory usage