Firefox needs too much memory

[James Freer]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Sam Przyswa <samp at arial-concept.com> wrote:
> Le samedi 22 octobre 2011 à 14:20 +0200, Olivier Pavilla a écrit :
>
> I have ubuntu natty 64 bits. I have 4GB of RAM and swap 8GB.
> So I h ave trouble with memory. It seems Firefox takes too much memory.
> Look my "top"
>
> Yes it's true and this is for that I swapped to Google Chrome...
>
> Sam.

I hope you don't mind me asking but was there a reason for you
choosing Chrome rather than Chromium. It's only been this last week
i've started using Chrome. I didn't realise that Chromium was the Open
Source version, and Chrome was google's revamp. As Chrome was straight
.deb i installed it - Chromium had a few dependencies and addons which
i didn't want to explore. With google i always wonder what else
they've put in to a package.

Have you compared the two? I couldn't get the syncing bookmarks to
work and wonder if that is a conflict with google toolbar that i used
to use!

[I also found FF and Seamonkey to a lesser extent heavy on memory so i
decided to change].

james