Re: Firefox Tool Bar gone...

["Mark Allen" <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hah, so my being on dial up from home does have its advantages...most I EVER
have open is 2 there.......

On 7/24/06, Paul Jackson <pjackson@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Chuck,
>
> I am opening and closing tabs all day, I just happened to have eight open
> at that time. Apparently the setting for Firefox is global and is not a "per
> tab" setting.
>
> One trick I have noticed to release the memory is to minimize and then
> maximize Firefox.
>
> Hopefully version 2 will have some better memory management.
>
> -Paul
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Chuck Lewis
> Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 4:45 AM
> To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'
> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Firefox Tool Bar gone...
>
>
> Hmmm... Are you the lucky one ? :-)
>
> Thanks for the info. I'm getting ready to move to a new PC with more
> memory
> so guess I'll wait till latter this week and see how it is then :-)
>
> I usually have WAY more tabs open then 8 so no doubt that is the issue and
> is mentioned quite a bit in that link. I still think they need to do
> something to fix that. A window that isn't open and isn't doing anything
> should release memory I would think.
>
> Chuck
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
> Behalf Of Paul Jackson
> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 3:53 PM
> To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
> Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Firefox Tool Bar gone...
>
> Chuck,
>
> I have not changed the value from the default which is -1 and have not
> experienced any problems memory wise with the latest version 1.5.0.4 on
> both
> my work and home machines.
>
> Work: 1GB RAM
> Home: 768MB
>
> Firefox does use a lot of memory though (currently 81MB on my work
> machine)
> with 5 tabs open.
>
>
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