<p>16GB RAM on win7 and 25 tabs open.firefox is a ramhog. I am leaning toward chrome. need to test head to head. 4GB RAM and ubuntu studio, firefox still a ramhog. Firefox shockwave/ flash bot working. Chrome on same machine and flash works. <br>
If chrome had sync like firefox, I would have switched over already.</p>
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Apache develope<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">My current desktop is ram limited and I run firefox with a zillion tabs in a million windows. It will eat up the ram then happily punt out to swap. Page not touched in 3 hours may take 2 secs to reload but that's OK with me.<br>
<br>Get's fun when something crashes firefox and it reload all the windows and tabs :-) First time I've been on a desktop class system instead of a server class system as a desktop.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com" target="_blank">atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Hi all,<br>
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I just picked up my laptop running Windows 7 and Firefox plus about 70 open tabs. This applies to Linux too. The bottom of the unit was so hot that it was uncomfortable to touch. The fan was running furiously. The first thing I thought was ventilation. The unit had been sitting on some loose papers, so that might have had an effect. I have speedfan running to monitor temperature. It's norm is 62 C and it was up to 75 C. I removed all the loose papers. Then, I looked at the cpu meter. It was pegged at around 70%, and Firefox was the main culprit. Probably flash. I closed Firefox. The cpu was still sitting around 15 % with nothing happening. I loaded msconfig to see what was starting up. On Linux, you could use top, htop, or system monitor. However, those only tell you what's running, not what's in the startup sequence, as far as I know. I found a number of things in the startup sequence that I didn't want there, like a Citrix app for the once in a year time that my wife uses my computer, adobe reader quickstart, something related to cyberlink dvd programs, a daemon for updating the firmware in my Sansa mp3 player (which I've done exactly once and will probably never repeat), and several items from the manufacturer of the pc, etc. I don't think anything is malicious, but, they're sitting there using cpu time and electricity and creating heat. I hid all the microsoft stuff in the list, then unchecked all the processes AND SERVICES that I didn't think need to be starting. Be careful though. You can break critical parts of your system, like updates, or sound, or your touchpad. I rebooted and my idle cpu usage dropped to 1 % - 2 %. Now that's more like it.<br>
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So, the moral of the story is that it pays to look at your process list occasionally and trim the fat. The other moral is that it pays to keep one eye on Firefox, especially if you have lots of tabs and especially if you have flash or html 5 animation. I did some reading in the past that indicated flash could bring a mobile device's battery to its knees.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
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Ron<br>
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