Silverfish ate my browser

**ricardonz** · 11-11-2009 05:10 PM

Over the last few weeks, i've noticed my browser running very slowly whenever I load silverfish - it even slows down pages on other sites i have open. The actual page load times are somewhat acceptable, but I wonder if something could be done to cut down on the browser resources required.. maybe it's just for firefox (version 3.5.5), I can do some testing in other browsers

**gavmck** · 11-12-2009 05:37 AM

Do you have loads of tabs open or leave your browser open for a long amount of time?
Firefox has evil memory leaks that can end up with it taking up your entire RAM if it's left open for a few hours or you run loads of tabs. Just close down firefox and re-open to free up the memory again. Happens to me when I browse SF cos I crack loads of threads open.

**Hanael** · 11-12-2009 07:30 AM

mine's eating up 1gb ram, 1.2 gb virtual mem.

....yeah, 300 tabs open at once.

**easyroller** · 11-12-2009 09:52 AM

Silverfish takes longer to load than any other page I visit....

**chandler95** · 11-12-2009 03:52 PM

SF has lots of busy, moving ads. Might be why.

**gavmck** · 11-13-2009 03:09 AM

SF has lots of busy, moving ads. Might be why.

Really? I don't see any...

**Cann0n** · 11-13-2009 08:23 AM

It's firefox.

**easyroller** · 11-13-2009 10:32 AM

Originally Posted by chandler95

SF has lots of busy, moving ads. Might be why.

Yeah there's around 20-odd animated gif advertising images on every page.....

**HerBDerb** · 11-14-2009 07:04 PM

With 5 tabs open, two of which are SF, my Firefox is using a whopping 100mb.

**Cann0n** · 11-14-2009 07:22 PM

Sometimes Firefox will leach out of my swap space (it's like ram, but it's a petition on the harddrive that's for emergencies when your ram is used up)