[SLL] Laughing down Firefox today at my work...

[Glenn Stone]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 03:38:06PM -0800, John Locke wrote:
>Glenn Stone wrote:
>>
>> Oh, and one more thing?  TabMixPlus's session manager for the win.  That
>> makes it decidedly less annoying (and darn near painless) to have to
>> restart, even if it's kill -9.  And, got a whole buttload of tabs whose
>> content you want to remember but it's eating your box alive?  Move them to
>> their own window, save'em off, and kill the window.  Winner!  
>>
>>   
>Haven't tried that one, but I do use the SessionSaver extension, which
>sounds quite similar.

Indeed; in fact, I used to use SessionSaver before discovering the one in
TabMixPlus when it came out.  (I think they narfed some code, or at least
some ideas...)

>I regularly have 3-4 Firefox windows open, each with anywhere from 4 -
>30 tabs. Or at least I used to. On Ubuntu, with the sites I keep open
>all the time (including some JS-heavy internal sites), it used to
>regularly consume 800-900MB of RAM, out of the 1.5GB I have on my Thinkpad.

I don't let it get over about 400mb (I keep watch on it with gkrellm)... 

>Now I just store a few strategic sessions: one for the big development
>project I'm working on, one for the streamlined set of business
>operations, and one with all the tabs opened to the stories/pages I'm
>reading. You can switch between them pretty easily, and Session Saver
>opens/closes windows and tabs to restore whatever session you switch to.
>I've noticed that other than my surfing session, Firefox uses much less
>memory (down to 300MB on most of my sessions), and Session Saver manages
>to free a lot of the runaway memory leaks I used to see, so that I'm
>really only having to shut down Firefox once or twice a week.

Fx seems to run garbage collection when it closes a window; I'm not
surprised you can keep that big a session set open that long.