Pig out on RAM–The Firefox problem
I’ve been testing Firefox 4 Beta for a while, but over the past couple of weeks I’ve noticed it seems to be bogging my system down. I finally decided to check it’s ram usage. I open up Task Manager to find that it is taking over half of my ram. Now it is not Firefox per say but it is “plugin-container.exe*32” Which is described as a Plugin container for Firefox. I am pretty sure if I had more available RAM it would have used more. Since my system is only running 2 GBs 1.3 GB of that was all it could tie up. I do plan on adding more RAM to my system.
Firefox seemed to be having issues loading webpages that run flash media, like videos on a page. I don’t know if it is the problem is on Flash’s end or Firefox 4’s end. I am going to do some more investigating to figure this out.
Some things I plan on trying will be:
- Install a new version of flash
- Create a new profile
- Clear out my browser cache
I’ll report back on the results and if any changes have been made.
