Never do this with FireFox:

danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
edited April 2005 in Science & Tech
In the setting where you determine how bid you want your cache to be, I happened to have it at 64KB, however, I thought this was like Internet Explorer, where typing in 64 meant 64MB. Well, when going through the settings, I noticed over to the side in the box "KB". I thought ooops, so I put the cache to 65536KB (For 64MB). I was wondering why FireFox was using 256MB of ram in the Taskmanager. At least I know not to do this anymore. It is back to a more respectable 96MB (with 8 tabs open)

Comments

  • entropyentropy Yah-Der-Hey (Wisconsin)
    edited April 2005
    Dude, that's ridiculous. I get pissed off when FireFox takes up 50 megs of ram (which is almost always). That's way too much for a browser to need, OR use.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited April 2005
    I had also been operating WinXP without a pagefile for nearly two weeks (I forgot I disabled it from the C: drive so I could put it on the D: drive, but forgot to enable it for the D: drive), and I didn't know that until Photoshop warned me when I was installing it.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    I always set the firefox cache to 1K for anyone who has more than a 4mb connection to the internet.
  • RWBRWB Icrontian
    edited April 2005
    I've been changing the cache, andit doesn't effect the amount of memory taken up in any amount I put. And yes, I am restarting the browser each time and making sure the service stops before reopening it.
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited April 2005
    I use 200,000 KB for FireFox.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited April 2005
    Sounds like you need to modify the cache for firefox, as I'm only using 87MB across 10 tabs
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited April 2005
    I don't like FireFox being a memory hog, but I'd rather have a larger cache so that I have to pull things from servers less frequently. I'm sure server admins don't mind my caching things like images to reduce server stress. Even downloading from a cable connection can't compare with reading from a local HD. I figure my web-browsing is sped up via an enlarged cache and at 1GB of memory I've got the extra RAM to give to FireFox.
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