World's Most Overrated Software

westical · Post by **westical** » 15 Oct 2006 06:19 pm

Sucking 80MB of precious RAM just to display one tab with this very forum?

No thanks.

Ekin · Post by **Ekin** » 15 Oct 2006 06:40 pm

80mb isnt that much when u have 1-2gb ram, which most people who use FF will probably have.

Security benefits and handy extensions like mouse gestures and flash ad disablers are nice.

Just had a quick look at the popular extensions:
Video Downloader
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Just updated my extensions and installed a bunch of new ones, with 3 tabs my memory usage is 50mb. Maybe something is wrong with yours.

westical · Post by **westical** » 15 Oct 2006 07:00 pm

Firefox's memory leaks are well documented.

Spoonfan · Post by **Spoonfan** » 15 Oct 2006 10:30 pm

Opera baby.

mech · Post by **mech** » 15 Oct 2006 11:06 pm

Mine's at 120meg atm, hahahaha... still a shitload faster and better to use than IE though.

Madmya · Post by **Madmya** » 15 Oct 2006 11:28 pm

136mb here..

pilonv1 · Post by **pilonv1** » 16 Oct 2006 12:07 am

80mb here, seems to stay in that range.

Madmya · Post by **Madmya** » 16 Oct 2006 01:01 am

143mb, and it just crashed. ffs i had important tabs open too.

pilonv1 · Post by **pilonv1** » 16 Oct 2006 01:21 am

Misly · Post by **Misly** » 16 Oct 2006 07:47 am

47mb RAM usage with firefox 2.0 beta

Well considering that the poor masses still use internet exploder, I think that IE is the worlds most over rated software. Either that or Windows. Most under rated umm..........Qbasic

westical · Post by **westical** » 16 Oct 2006 07:53 am

Just because something is popular doesn't automatically make it overrated.

Ambrose Burnside · Post by **Ambrose Burnside** » 16 Oct 2006 08:40 am

Ekin wrote:Just updated my extensions and installed a bunch of new ones, with 3 tabs my memory usage is 50mb. Maybe something is wrong with yours.

Yeah, I have 3 tabs open too and usage is at 50MB. I have an embedded Flash video playing in one of the tabs as well.

General Chaos · Post by **General Chaos** » 16 Oct 2006 09:06 am

Get Maxathon and fuck firefox off as your secondary browser.

Better tabbing, has mouse gestures popup blocking etc etc etc.

It will also ask to resume previous pages which would have helped you nicely!

Rorschach · Post by **Rorschach** » 16 Oct 2006 11:18 am

I'm running 3 browsers at the moment:

Firefox - 35megs
Camino - 45megs
Safari - 75megs

To its credit Firefox is much more stable than it once was. It used to crash a lot when I opened it up. Camino is a lot more stable though but it does have trouble with some websites. Safari isn't too bad but it hates Java (hence the need for Camino). Firefox is just for general browsing.

selfish · Post by **selfish** » 16 Oct 2006 06:11 pm

why all three? i run safari as my everyday and camino if something hates safari and don't have any problems

oh and you know about saft for safari, right? you need it if safari's going to be any kind of competitor to firefox...crash protection and a bunch of other stuff make it worthwhile, find it on a torrent somewhere or cough up the $16..

Ekin · Post by **Ekin** » 16 Oct 2006 06:38 pm

Madmya wrote:143mb, and it just crashed. ffs i had important tabs open too.

I think Tab Mix Plus extension can recover web pages from a crash. If not it'll be in the popular/top rated extensions. Works great

unfnknblvbl · Post by **unfnknblvbl** » 16 Oct 2006 06:38 pm

178MB here... with 17 tabs open, and it's been running for about three days without restarting...

AgOnNy · Post by **AgOnNy** » 16 Oct 2006 07:57 pm

88MB, no probs and i love the program.

selfish · Post by **selfish** » 16 Oct 2006 09:23 pm

lestat, what are the browser stats for games ranch?

Cletus · Post by **Cletus** » 16 Oct 2006 09:53 pm

Ekin wrote:
Madmya wrote:143mb, and it just crashed. ffs i had important tabs open too.
I think Tab Mix Plus extension can recover web pages from a crash. If not it'll be in the popular/top rated extensions. Works great

It is tab mix plus.

lestat · Post by **lestat** » 16 Oct 2006 10:00 pm

Firefox 70.6 %
MS Internet Explorer 20.5 %
Mozilla 6.2 %
Safari 1.1 %
Opera 0.7 %
Camino 0.5 %

Firefox FTW.

ObSoLeTe · Post by **ObSoLeTe** » 19 Oct 2006 03:26 pm

uhhh i had a feeling firefox was a ram hog, i got a pentium 4 2 ghz and 768 of ram, im forever closing firefox with ctrl alt and delete because it freezes up so much

unfnknblvbl · Post by **unfnknblvbl** » 19 Oct 2006 03:54 pm

yeah, it used to be a lot lighter, back when it was called Phoenix and then Firebird.

...it's still better than IE though - IE hides its RAM useage under a whole stack of other processes

ObSoLeTe · Post by **ObSoLeTe** » 21 Oct 2006 03:43 pm

well i just a complete new machine and firefox hasnt crashed once

t0mby · Post by **t0mby** » 26 Oct 2006 04:49 am

I prefer Opera for some reason. I used to use Firefox but then I dont know why I changed.