Why does firefox use so much memory

Check your task manager and if you sort it by memory usage, firefox always comes on top!

But why?

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Very interesting.. Did you try comparing it with IE?

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yeah IE uses less memory but it has other issues.

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What's a little more memory usage between friends :)

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lol...good 1 tofi

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maybe your fox is loaded with extentions?

hahahahaha :biggthumb

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Idhar bhee.. mayve its the multiple tabs? I've seen mine hit 150,000 K

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^ That's it? I've seen mine go up to 800,000 k

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woaaahh...

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Ofcourse with 15 tabs etc etc

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One of the reasons I had read was that in order to speed things up, it caches a lot of the info. So the next time you go the same website in the same session, it's available really quickly.

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more than 110,900

OMG........that's hell usage of memory

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it is ridiculous. Even my VM running Linux doesn't take that much memory.

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and then they say FF rocks :rolleyes:

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^^ these days the new version is on the rocks!!!

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no doubt it is faster browsing...............