quick question about opening several tabs...

[demonikal]

Every once in a while I get a notification that Firefox has used a certain amount of memory. And then it says something like, "Close and restart for faster browsing" or something like that.

If I open several tabs...I'm talking about like 10-20 at a time, does the speed of what I'm doing on each tab (even though the other pages on every other tab have already completely loaded) in terms of submitting information, etc., have to do with internet speed or memory (RAM usage)?

So...

Several tabs open rely on --> RAM (memory usage)??

or

Several tabs open rely on --> internet speed??

Thanks so much!!

 

[cabinfever1977]

I have the same problem with internet explorer and with only one page open,i had win xp and after putting win 7 and explorer 9 on, i noticed it doesnt come up as often now. I tryed enlargeing virtual memory with xp but didnt help,i did get a even higher speed internet maybe that and windows 7 helped,but i still have 2gb of memory.

You already have a good computer,so its going to depend now on you internet speed.
and since its only when you have 10-20 web pages open,id say you're doing pretty good.

 

[demonikal]

I have the same problem with internet explorer and with only one page open,i had win xp and after putting win 7 and explorer 9 on, i noticed it doesnt come up as often now. I tryed enlargeing virtual memory with xp but didnt help,i did get a even higher speed internet maybe that and windows 7 helped,but i still have 2gb of memory.

You already have a good computer,so its going to depend now on you internet speed.
and since its only when you have 10-20 web pages open,id say you're doing pretty good.

Actually, I asked about 10-20 webpages, cuz sometimes I enter sweepstakes and stuff and have several tabs open. Usually that's the only time I have that many tabs open. But honestly, the notification I usually get is when I have 3 tabs or more open. I usually, as in every day, have no more than 3 or 4 open at one time.

My internet speed with AT&T U-verse is 18 Mb/s. Would like to increase it to 24 Mb/s, but some woman on the AT&T site via online chat told me it's not available in my area. I was thinking, "what the **** is she talking about? I have DSL and everything up to that speed which is AT&T U-verse's fastest speed is DSL", so I really think she didn't know crap. So, I'm gonna call tomorrow. Honestly, would be nice if I could get Xfinity (Comcast's) 105 Mb/s' speed, but with their 250 GB per month cap, I think I'd have my internet turned off like half way through the month every time

Thanks for responding!!

Btw, nice username, cuz honestly, not working now, I get cabin fever alllllll the time. Every friend and their mother is married and has kids and has no time to do anything and I'm single and watching CBT Nuggets videos at home and reading PDF files to further my IT education. Lol.

 

[Currency]

I have comcast, they did lower their cap from 500GB's a month to 250GB's a while ago. For having around eight computers on my wireless network we have never hit the cap.

That does include randomly downloading large files which may not happen every single month but when I do download files I can easily download 25-50GB's in one sitting, depending on what I'm downloading. Generally video game demo's when I get really bored and I do download a ton of them.

I currently use Firefox beta and have issues when re-opening firefox after closing it, I have it save everything that is open. Generally five-eight web pages and one or two youtube video's. With 6GB's of memory I have issues with FF freezing up.

Currently have 574MB's of free memory, most is consumed by stronghold kingdoms online game 700MB's to 900MB's at any given time. FF only consumes 300-500MB's.

That is with Win 7 home 64bit and as I said before, 6,144MB's of memory. If your running Win 7 on 2 GB's of ram, I would suggest upgrading to 4GB's or 6GB's if possible. You should notice an improvement in the responsiveness of your system.

 

[claptonman]

If all 10-20 are loading all at once or streaming anything, it will use your internet speed.

If they are all loaded on a site like this, with no streaming things, then it won't affect the internet speed very much.

Having them all open, loading or loaded, will use RAM. With your 16GB, I doubt that's a problem.

 

[demonikal]

I have comcast, they did lower their cap from 500GB's a month to 250GB's a while ago. For having around eight computers on my wireless network we have never hit the cap.

That does include randomly downloading large files which may not happen every single month but when I do download files I can easily download 25-50GB's in one sitting, depending on what I'm downloading. Generally video game demo's when I get really bored and I do download a ton of them.

I currently use Firefox beta and have issues when re-opening firefox after closing it, I have it save everything that is open. Generally five-eight web pages and one or two youtube video's. With 6GB's of memory I have issues with FF freezing up.

Currently have 574MB's of free memory, most is consumed by stronghold kingdoms online game 700MB's to 900MB's at any given time. FF only consumes 300-500MB's.

That is with Win 7 home 64bit and as I said before, 6,144MB's of memory. If your running Win 7 on 2 GB's of ram, I would suggest upgrading to 4GB's or 6GB's if possible. You should notice an improvement in the responsiveness of your system.

I'm running Win 7 Pro x64 on 16 GB of DDR3 RAM. So, RAM is not an issue and I'm not a big gamer, so lack of memory is never a problem.

However, I had one stick of 4 GB of RAM when I had the major issues of the tabs loading so slow, same internet speed. So maybe there's a "ghost in the machine" if RAM has nothing to do with speed of new tabs loading

I'm seriously thinking about the 105 Mb/s speed. But $200/month plus taxes?? That's a little steep. Yeah, it's faster than any speed Verizon FiOS offers and yeah FiOS isn't even available here in Illinois ANYWAY, but do I have servers? No. Do I really need that speed? No. Have? 18 Mb/s. Want? 105 Mb/s. Need? Likely not even 18 Mb/s. I'm just an internet junkie is all

 

[demonikal]

If all 10-20 are loading all at once or streaming anything, it will use your internet speed.

If they are all loaded on a site like this, with no streaming things, then it won't affect the internet speed very much.

Having them all open, loading or loaded, will use RAM. With your 16GB, I doubt that's a problem.

Alright, thanks for the reply. Knowing it won't affect my 16GB is nice to hear

 

[strollin]

I have a dual core laptop with 3G of RAM and a 1.5M internet connection. I can open 100 or more tabs without issue. As an experiment, I just opened 40 tabs, each is responsive (none are streaming content) and my memory usage is less than 50% of my total RAM. I didn't get any messages about Fire Fox memory issues.

Opening an additional tab doesn't require much memory, my memory usage went from 41% with 1 tab open to 45% with 40 tabs open.

I'd say you have a problem if 10-20 tabs open with 16G of RAM is causing you problems. Most likely it isn't your RAM that's a problem but it could be something like your temporary internet files or your history or something along those lines. I would try deleting those things (look in Fire Fox Options to find where to delete history and cache, don't just delete things yourself).

 

[claptonman]

When you're opening them/have them open, have task manager open to the side to the performance section. (Make your internet browser smaller) If its using all 16GB, you have some sort of memory leak. Have you run a memtest lately?

 

[turbodiesel]

I have comcast, they did lower their cap from 500GB's a month to 250GB's a while ago. For having around eight computers on my wireless network we have never hit the cap.

That does include randomly downloading large files which may not happen every single month but when I do download files I can easily download 25-50GB's in one sitting, depending on what I'm downloading. Generally video game demo's when I get really bored and I do download a ton of them.

I currently use Firefox beta and have issues when re-opening firefox after closing it, I have it save everything that is open. Generally five-eight web pages and one or two youtube video's. With 6GB's of memory I have issues with FF freezing up.

Currently have 574MB's of free memory, most is consumed by stronghold kingdoms online game 700MB's to 900MB's at any given time. FF only consumes 300-500MB's.

That is with Win 7 home 64bit and as I said before, 6,144MB's of memory. If your running Win 7 on 2 GB's of ram, I would suggest upgrading to 4GB's or 6GB's if possible. You should notice an improvement in the responsiveness of your system.

firefox never crashs for me


i have 4gb of ram and i can open lots of tabs 5-10 but even on 2gb the performance was still ok will having multiple tabs open

 

[demonikal]

When you're opening them/have them open, have task manager open to the side to the performance section. (Make your internet browser smaller) If its using all 16GB, you have some sort of memory leak. Have you run a memtest lately?

No, I haven't. I guess I'll do that next.