[dba-Tech] Opera memory usage

Wow, you are so right, I hadn't really noticed that, but if I open about 
12-15 tabs my memory usage for firefox will surge up about 50megs, (i've 
yet to see it go over this amount.) but when I begin closing the tabs, I 
have seen firefox yield about 10 megs but it won't go lower than that 
unless another program is opened.


John W. Colby wrote On 7/26/2004 1:03 PM:

>LOL.  Yea, I was afraid I was going to get that.  
>
>In fact I have downloaded and installed Firefox as well, and have used it a
>little.  It appears to do the same thing.  As I browse, open new windows
>(tabs), close windows / tabs etc, the memory usage climbs and climbs.  It
>doesn't drop back until I close, then re-open.
>
>John W. Colby
>www.ColbyConsulting.com 
>
>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Haslett, Andrew
>Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 1:23 AM
>To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
>Subject: RE: [dba-Tech] Opera memory usage
>
>
>Use firefox  ;= 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: John W. Colby [mailto:jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com] 
>Sent: Monday, 26 July 2004 1:28 PM
>To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
>Subject: [dba-Tech] Opera memory usage
>
>I am using Opera a lot recently (and generally love it) but it seems to
>consume memory at a prodigious rate.  After a few hours of comparison
>shopping for various items, plus a bit of research it is up to 125 mb of
>memory (according to Task Manager).  Granted, closing Opera does give the
>memory back to the system, but that still seems excessive.  If I then simply
>re-open Opera, it loads the previous state (tabs open, pages loaded) but the
>memory used drops to a much more reasonable 28mb.
>
>I have to assume that it is caching the world.  Is there any way to set a
>limit to the size of that cache so the memory consumption doesn't get so
>humongous?
>
>  
>
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-Francisco