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Firefox - 80MB Memory Taken
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 12:33 pm
by NigelH
Hi
I noticed that with your addon installed I have lost 80MB of memory. I have 6 filters enabled, but would not have expected your addon to have had such a specific impact.
I would have hoped that you took the list - combined it to remove duplicates and efficiently managed the memory. You are taking almost the same as the whole of firefox without any extensions and that does not seem correct.
Nigel
Re: Firefox - 80MB Memory Taken
Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2012 4:28 pm
by Nigel1
By the way the filters files as ini are only around 1.5mb - so suggests a 40 times multiplier somewhere
Re: Firefox - 80MB Memory Taken
Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2012 5:10 am
by passby1
man, you need to learn some basic theory before report "bug" like this, the size of raw file has NO necessary related to its allocate memory, a few byte HTML could take up all you memory and make Firefox crash.
Besides, 80MB is not much to the computer and website today, and I have to remind you that without blocking those ads, they comsume memory too.
At last, I don't know how you measure the allocated memory of a specific add-on in Firefox ( unlike Chrome, provide a manager ), that probably won't be accurate.
P.S. 6 rule list is too much for regular using IMHO
Re: Firefox - 80MB Memory Taken
Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2012 4:22 pm
by Nigel1
I measure the memory by comparing the memory requirement of Firefox (windows task manager) with and without Adblock plus.
Whilst it may be relatively small - in your opinion, to need 50% of what is set for Firefox with around 10 other addons is something thats appears to be bloatware.
Hopefully its something that simply can be fixed. The only reason why the raw file size was mentioned was that with proper coding one would not have the size issue. As more sites get added to filters, then the use of memory expands.
Re: Firefox - 80MB Memory Taken
Posted: Sun May 06, 2012 1:45 pm
by Squall
Nigel1 wrote:I measure the memory by comparing the memory requirement of Firefox (windows task manager) with and without Adblock plus.
Whilst it may be relatively small - in your opinion, to need 50% of what is set for Firefox with around 10 other addons is something thats appears to be bloatware.
Hopefully its something that simply can be fixed. The only reason why the raw file size was mentioned was that with proper coding one would not have the size issue. As more sites get added to filters, then the use of memory expands.
Given byte overheads, allocation overheads and whats not, this is to be expected.