How to precisely find the amount of memory or RAM being used by Firefox

Written on April 10th, 2011 at 20:26 pm by shredder12

Until today, I relied on system monitor & top to find out the amount of memory being used by firefox. This works fine but there is an even better way to find out the exact amount used by the browser. Visit about:memory page to find it out. It lists out detailed information about the memory used and its distribution.

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vasiauvi (not verified)
April 10th, 2011 08:57 pm
In Firefox 4 is not working, at least on my system!
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shredder12
April 10th, 2011 11:53 pm

I don't remember doing any configuration changes for it; worked out of the box.

mikelete (not verified)
April 11th, 2011 01:17 am
It works with Chromium aswell ;)
Debianero (not verified)
April 11th, 2011 02:34 pm
In Iceweasel (version 3.5.16) it doesn't work.
Kulbir Saini (not verified)
April 12th, 2011 06:55 pm
Works with chrome 8.0 but not with FF 3.6.13.4
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shredder12
April 12th, 2011 09:33 pm

Not just this. Chrome even shows the memory usage of Firefox :P

Kulbir Saini (not verified)
April 12th, 2011 10:28 pm
Actually, I guess that's the reason firefox is not able to display it. Some serious locking screwup somewhere :P

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