topic title: Iceweasel/icedove/iceowl memory consumption
Posts: 146
Eperbab
Joined: 10 Dec 2012
#1
I just installed iceweasel etc. from experimental repo. See
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Right before install, memory usage with 3 pages opened in iceweasel was 302 MB.
After closing iceweasel, it went down to 152 MB.
After installing from experimental and reopening all pages: 254 MB.

So the experimental version uses about 2/3 of RAM, compaired to 'testing' release. With sometimes 20 pages open, it's a huge step ahead.
Posts: 609
dark-D
Joined: 02 Jun 2008
#2
mozilla has worked intensively to reduce the memory consumption of it's browser, firefox. the latest version is quite snappy and with a much lower memory consumption. the bad news is, debian is more conservative at it's use of software. as testing is frozen, apart from security and high priority packages nothing gets updated, i don't know if they will use other version than 10 esr, even doubt 17 esr is out. you can install and use iceweasel from experimental with no problem, and if a new antix will come out maybe the experimental version will be great for it.
Posts: 146
Eperbab
Joined: 10 Dec 2012
#3
The sources list should be updated for
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users. At the moment it offers
- iceweasel 23.0.1-1 unstable
- iceweasel 24.0~b7-1 experimental

At the same time
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gives 22.0~b1-1~bpo70+1, and debian testing offers 17.0.8esr-2.
Posts: 765
rust collector
Joined: 27 Dec 2011
#4
I have been using 25.0a2 for a couple of days, no problems yet...
Posts: 1,139
masinick
Joined: 26 Apr 2008
#5
If you are really interested in keeping on top of Mozilla releases of their browsers and Email clients, I recommend going to their site, downloading Firefox, Seamonkey, etc. and use their update method rather than the one provided by Debian.

I do this with the released version of Firefox, and I also grab Firefox Nightly and Seamonkey Nightly. I use Seamonkey when I want to retain Email. I use both Yahoo Mail and Google Gmail, and I can use POP3 and SMTP with Yahoo Mail to grab the mail with Seamonkey; for Gmail, I use IMAP4 and SMTP. I do this only when I want to download and save Email; the rest of the time I use Web-based services.

Anyway, I recommend the Mozilla versions, downloadable as tar.bz2 archives. Once you download them, using the tar command makes it easy to place them anywhere you want. I generally create Firefox and Seamonkey directories, sometimes multiple directories, beneath my home directory.

The command to extract these archives is tar xvf firefox-xx.yy.zz.tar.bz2 or tar xvf seamonkey-xx.yy.zz.tar.bz2; change the names to match the package archive that you download.
Posts: 18
Tom
Joined: 30 Jul 2013
#6
masinick wrote: The command to extract these archives is tar xvf firefox-xx.yy.zz.tar.bz2 or tar xvf seamonkey-xx.yy.zz.tar.bz2; change the names to match the package archive that you download.
Does"tar xvf" work or should it be"tar xvjf"?