John W. Colby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed Jul 28 09:57:36 CDT 2004
Francisco, You are correct, FireFox seems to handle this stuff way bettered than Opera does. I had Opera up to 120mb this morning, just from some browsing I was doing last night. Opera does continue to climb as you load the same page over and over. For example I use web banking. As I load that page the memory grows. Go into a menu the memory grows, go back to the main summary page, the memory grows etc. Firefox does NOT do that, and in fact (I tested this) on my machine simply stops growing at all at about 57mb of total memory use. That in and of itself is a huge reason to select Firefox over Opera. I must say at the moment I prefer Opera's user interface over Firefox. I like the persistent bookmarks window that you can open off to the left hand side that provides an "always visible" tree of bookmark folders. Of course I have a new laptop with a 1200x800 screen with extra width to use this feature. It would probably not be as useful at the normal CRT screen resolutions. I also like the wand that allows me to record username / password for a given page and just click the button to apply them. In the end though, a browser has to be a little thriftier with memory. One of many reasons I started looking for an alternative to IE was the fact that I'd have 3 or 4 copies of IE open, each using 30-40 mb or RAM. That's just ridiculous. Opera using 120mb is ridiculous as well. If I could figure out how to cap its memory usage I'd probably stick with it. If I can't I will likely move on to Firefox and get used to its user interface. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Francisco H Tapia Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 4:15 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Opera memory usage For FireFox the increase is very minute if it's the same page being duplicated. it only grows a whole ton if you load diffrent pages and only if you're loading way over 20pages. John W. Colby wrote On 7/27/2004 11:24 AM: >The odd part is that the memory climbs for every gif on a page etc. If >I close that tab and reload the SAME PAGE, the memory climbs again as >the gifs reload. So much for caching. :( > >John W. Colby >www.ColbyConsulting.com > >-----Original Message----- >From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com >[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Francisco H >Tapia >Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 12:45 PM >To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues >Subject: Re: [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 >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >dba-Tech mailing list >dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com >http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech >Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com > > > -- -Francisco _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com