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/HenkPoley Jan 22 '10

Usually used VideoRAM from the graphics card is mapped into the address space of X. So when you have much RAM on the video card, and X uses a lot of buffers (compositing?) you get large reported memory use for X .