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March 15th, 2013, 12:55 PM
#25
Hmmm,
In the past I used to think that FireFox was badly designed because it appeared to leak memory like a sieve. Now I suspect that this is intentional, presumably to make it appear quicker?
Right now FF is taking up 700MB of RAM on this new laptop, but it has 8GB of DDR3/1333 so that doesn't matter.
For the past few weeks I have been using an Asus eeePC netbook as both my production machines died on the same day 
SPECIFICATIONS:
Intel Atom N570 1.67GHz dual core with hyperthreading.
1GB DDR2
5400rpm HDD
4GB SD card running ReadyBoost
Windows 7 Starter
2GB pagefile
After about 30~45 minutes the thing will slow to a crawl or worse with 95+% RAM and 50% pagefile usage, and the culprit is FF.
I installed some FF addons that seem to have reduced the problem, but make FF run much slower and pause the machine every now and then whilst they retune FF.
I shall have to look at alternatives.......FF is now up to 720MB and all I have been doing is typing this!
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