Comments on: Firefox: Down Memory Lane

By: phredd groves

phredd groves — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 11:35:46 +0000

Memory Usage: 799 MB | 37 tabs | Firefox 3.5.7 | OS X 10.6.2

By: F Craye

F Craye — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:37:06 +0000

Memory Usage: 100072K | 8 tabs | Firefox 3.5.7 | Ubuntu

By: nance

nance — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:51:05 +0000

375,000 3.5.7 23 tabs vista home

By: j00j

j00j — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:18:05 +0000

Memory usage: 70,000K, 3 tabs, 3.5.7, Mac OSX 10.5.8

By: Diatryma

Diatryma — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 03:07:01 +0000

Mem: 407,712
Firefox 3.5.7
2 windows, 3 and 1 tab
Windows Vista

By: Domini

Domini — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 02:34:11 +0000

Windows 7 64 bit
Firefox 32 bit 3.5.7
1 window, 3 tabs at this particular moment
132,728k of memory

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:57:32 +0000

175 MB real memory, 3 tabs open, Version 3.5.7, OSX (10.5.8)

By: Attie

Attie — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:35:12 +0000

308MB – one window, 20 tabs – 3.6 on Mac OS 10.5.8

Less than Safari with only 2 tabs!

By: Miki

Miki — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:38:22 +0000

325MB — one window with 16 tabs, one window with 4 — Firefox 3.5.7 on Mac OSX 10.5.8

Given how much I have open, I’m actually pretty happy with that.

By: dp

dp — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:39:23 +0000

288,000 K | 8 tabs (in two windows) | 3.0.3 (I know, I know) with Adblock Plus 1.0.2 | WinXP

By: Stephanie Leary

Stephanie Leary — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:07:23 +0000

458.48MB, 5 tabs, Mac/Leopard.

By: Mimi

Mimi — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:06:25 +0000

Firefox version 3.015 (with about one million extensions), Mac OS 10.5, one window, 12 tabs including two with substantial video; 484.54 mg of memory in use.

By: KimGuidroz

KimGuidroz — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:49:08 +0000

Memory 91,556, Version 3.6, Vista. 1 window, 2 tabs

By: kouredios

kouredios — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:42:28 +0000

391,966
7 tabs, one window
3.5.7
XP

By: Glaurung_quena

Glaurung_quena — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:42:23 +0000

1 window, 7 tabs
usage: 121,252k
version: 3.6
sorry, forgot to say: running windows 2000.

By: Glaurung_quena

Glaurung_quena — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:40:22 +0000

1 window, 7 tabs
usage: 121,252k
version: 3.6

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:22:36 +0000

262.17 | 7 tabs| Mac 10.4.11| Firefox 3.0.10

By: Debbie

Debbie — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:11:15 +0000

129,976
5 tabs in one window
3.5.7
Windows XP (work version) on my desktop

By: Tamara

Tamara — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:04:45 +0000

92,812K | 2 windows open, no tabs | 3.5.7 | Windows XP on my netbook.

By: Matthew Daly

Matthew Daly — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:52:23 +0000

Memory Usage: 113,300K | 5 tabs | Firefox 3.5.7 | Windows Vista

(I’m idly wondering how much extensions and plugins factor in to the memory usage. Get enough third-party products that don’t care about optimizing their code, and you’re bound to have bloat.)