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Ben
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I have been using Firefox for a couple of years and usually it doesn't give me any problems. At least I don't recall any problems. But recently I have noticed Firefox using more and more memory (sometimes upwards of a 100MB). At home this is no problem, but at work it puts quite a strain on my system. Has it always been a resource hog and I am just realizing it now? Is there something I can do about it?

I appreciate any help you guys can provide.

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TomDavidson
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100MB of memory isn't a whole heck of a lot.
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MattP
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100MB+ is typical for Firefox.
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Ben
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no, but my system at work is already far exceeding my expectations for what it should be able to do. Every resource counts.

I'm using a 2.5 Ghz Celeron D with 512 ram for pre-press and layout work. Adobe CS1 taxes this machine pretty heavily when I have Acrobat AND Illustrator open simultaneously (who knows what would happen if I put CS2 on here) and add the IT departments Panda Virus software, and firefox to the mix and my machine gets tremendously bogged down. I am trying to keep it running as smoothly as possible.

I've put in for a new system, but it took me 3 months for them to provide this one, so who knows how long I'll be waiting.

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Ben
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See, at home I thought I was getting in the 50s for Firefox. I could be wrong.
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I've got three tabs opened right now in a session that I started two hours ago and I'm currently at 80 megs.

Do you see 100MB as soon as you start up? Do you have any plugins installed?

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Ben
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Adblock Plus, FOrecast Fox and Bugmenot
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You could ask for more RAM instead of a whole new box. I don't know if they'd be more or less reluctant to give you that, though.
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Ugh. That sounds like an awful system for that kind of work.
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It would take the same time. nobody is denying me a new box, it just takes awhile to get anything done around here, but I might do that.
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