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Is there an ad blocker that runs independently from a browser? I prefer chrome to Firefox because I don't want to use 1gb of RAM on a browser.

There are a few that you can search for, but from what I've heard none of them work as well as AdBlock Plus. I know a friend of mine has found a mostly-workable adblocker for Chrome, I'll ask him for the name of it and post back with it.

If Firefox is eating a gig of RAM, close some of your few dozen Youtube tabs.

are you rejecting the proper cookies?

adsweep for chrome works really good.

Don't know abut the ad blocker ( I use the Firefox setup you are asking about) but I love your signature line

1GB of RAM??? That's not right. Is that on launch of the browser?? It sounds like you're going to a website that causes a memory leak for Firefox.

With four tabs open firefox is using 110 megs of ram.

Something is wrong with your firefox. Or perhaps windows is misreporting its usage?

I am running Firefox 3.5.2 in two windows one with 10 tabs open and one with 7 open and
I have at least 17 add-ons or plug-ins active and it is only consuming about 245 megs of ram.
This is in my win XP partition by the way. My Linux version of Firefox is Version two point oh something
or other. Whenever I run that I run it in at least 5 windows with up to 30 tabs open and it uses about half the memory.

Like everybody is saying, there must be something wrong with your firefox setup. What add on have you installed? Also, have you tried FlashBlock? Flash is 1 of the worst leaker out there and using FlashBlock may be easier than the alternatives that you're looking for.

AdMuncher is one of the most effective filter I've used but it's not free. Privoxy is good and powerful but in my experience it does have issues with some sites.

There's no doubt about it... Firefox is slowing down.

I'm also not happy about them putting an office style ribbon bar in 4.

That's a WINDOWS app... I thought it was supposed to be cross platform.

Firefox doesn't have quite as bad performance as it gets a rap for. Most of the issues are memory leaks caused by a bad extension or page. Still, I join everyone else in wanting a faster browser- but with all of my bloaty features and couple dozen add-ons.

I think the design mockups we've seen for FF4 only apply to the Windows version. Windows users are the bulk of Mozilla's userbase, so they are going to focus on the Windows themes a lot more (if you've ever seen the default Mac theme, it sucks). Linux versions will probably not change dramatically in outward appearance.

It was a bit of an exaggeration, sorry to all

Thanks


Firefox has been sluggish lately, and I have had it using 256mb, only WP and pandora open.

On my computer firefox is using 92MB
IE7 is using 87MB

Both have two tabs open each, Gmail and WP

Adsweep, that's the one. There's also a proxy-based one targeted mainly at Safari users, but I don't think it works very well.

Both relatively heavy sites, especially pandora. My FF is currently at just over 400MB, but that's with 30 tabs, 19 extensions, and having left FF running a long time. Oftentimes a program starts to leak memory after being left on for a while, so shutting it off periodically might help. Webkit (Safari) is using 200MB for me, and it only has 6 tabs open, so I don't worry too much over FF hogging RAM. But then, memory isn't a huge issue for me.

I had gmail, WP, Facebook, google images open, and it was at about 130Mb,
I loaded pandora, and it went up to 161MB,
so... 256MB? Do you have any excessive extensions or plugins?
Haha, there should be a task manager just for firefox, to see what individual parts are using a total of 256MB.

Either that, or going to a website that runs a javascript that eats up that much memory. --Try turning both Java and Java Script support off?