First 64-bit Firefox build released, promising speed boost and beefier web gaming

[Tonylu1595]

sounds like you should close some tabs once your'e done

but I do it eats more ram than it should, having ~15 tabs open (8 being youtube) takes up about 5GB of my ram

I'm guessing that if you close those youtube tabs, ram usage will go back down. Youtube videos get loaded into the ram you know  

[Lynx]

I dont want this... I want MSE support so I can actually watch Youtube Videos @ 1080p and 60FPS in firefox

You could already do this on Firefox, just follow this workaround http://www.ghacks.net/2014/07/25/enable-mse-h2-64-support-youtube-firefox-right-now/

[Lord Baal]

Completely incorrect, the only time i have seen this is if FF crashed and your restore your 300+tab session. then and only then does it re-load the tab when you click it.

So every 10 mins then? Firefox used to crash on me about that often.  Also what upside is there to using a 64bit browser? I've used both 64bit and 32bit and never once noticed a upside to the 64bit versions. 

[kameshss]

Firefox uses less RAM less than Chrome. I've tested a lot. I agree that Chrome is faster than FireFox. But now a days I love using Firefox!

[Technous285]

So every 10 mins then? Firefox used to crash on me about that often.  Also what upside is there to using a 64bit browser? I've used both 64bit and 32bit and never once noticed a upside to the 64bit versions.

32-bit browsers crapout on you once you nudge the 3.5-4GB RAM usage zone (like how 32-Bit Windows such as XP wouldn't use more than 3.5-3.75GB of SysRAM+VRAM unless you played around a lot with tweaking it), since the max value of a 32-bit integer comes out to 4GB (4*1024*1024*1024*8). And that's them being generous!

As I've mentioned before - what takes me 16GB of SysRAM in Chrome can be compacted down to 8-9GB in Waterfox (6GB Pages, 2-3GB Flash & Java), and even if I shared my Waterfox profile with regular 32-bit Firefox and tried to open my usual loadout of webpages (thank you TabMixPlus!), 32-bit Firefox flips its shit and crashes, pushing me back to Waterfox.

[Lord Baal]

32-bit browsers crapout on you once you nudge the 3.5-4GB RAM usage zone (like how 32-Bit Windows such as XP wouldn't use more than 3.5-3.75GB of SysRAM+VRAM unless you played around a lot with tweaking it), since the max value of a 32-bit integer comes out to 4GB (4*1024*1024*1024*8). And that's them being generous!

As I've mentioned before - what takes me 16GB of SysRAM in Chrome can be compacted down to 8-9GB in Waterfox (6GB Pages, 2-3GB Flash & Java), and even if I shared my Waterfox profile with regular 32-bit Firefox and tried to open my usual loadout of webpages (thank you TabMixPlus!), 32-bit Firefox flips its shit and crashes, pushing me back to Waterfox.

Cheers I went back to chrome about the same time I built this machine and started going nuts with open tabs lol so that would explain why I never noticed a single upside of the 64bit browser over 32bit firefox.  Now days I'm always getting low memory alerts due to so much going on in chrome lol. 

[Lord Baal]

Firefox uses less RAM less than Chrome. I've tested a lot. I agree that Chrome is faster than FireFox. But now a days I love using Firefox!

I used to love firefox/waterfox but there was a phase where the damn thing would crash every 10-20mins even with just a single tab open to something like facebook. So I went back to chrome now I've just gotten so used to its UI that firefox/waterfox just feel kinda shitty. 

[kameshss]

I used to love firefox/waterfox but there was a phase where the damn thing would crash every 10-20mins even with just a single tab open to something like facebook. So I went back to chrome now I've just gotten so used to it's UI that firefox/waterfox just feel kinda shitty. 

The Crashing thing is the only reason that I hate in FireFox!

 

 

For me it crashes only when YouTube videos! I watch those a lot.

[Snickerzz]

I'm guessing that if you close those youtube tabs, ram usage will go back down. Youtube videos get loaded into the ram you know

i didn't know that... that's dumb