AIM 6...

[Boyiee]

wow wtf is right, what are you doing! aim shouldnt be more than 10 and firefox 20-40 tops

[Snowknight26]

Sorry, I was listing RAM usage not page file usage. Under Vista, its Memory Usage - something rather.

[Daahan]

Go to your preferences and turn off all the random crap that you don't really need, like sounds when people IM you or when you IM people. Make it so it doesn't try to load the startup page too.

[Epical]

http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/799/usageqh5.jpg

[killerx]

yah that looks kinda like how my computer turns out some times... yahoo and aim some times hit as high as 100k each i just shut them off and restart but i dont know what to do stuff seams to be such a memory hog latly.

[Bartylby]

your firefox cache set to something high?

[Snowknight26]

Switch to IE?

http://www.stfcc.org/misc/tskmgr.jpg

Notepad is about 10 more processes down.

[Epical]

Well, I usually have ~15 tabs open in Firefox at a time, but that doesn't explain why everything else is jacked up. My computer doesn't show signs of lag at all, but I'm worried now that I'm using way more juice than I have to.

your firefox cache set to something high?

Checked, it's set at up to 50MB.

[Grievear]

I noticed all the lags and strange issues with AIM 6 as well, but I got a live update for the product and now it works perfectly (I'm running Vista Beta Version).

See if you can update it before you switch to something else, it worked for me. If not http://www.oldversion.com is always around.

[Devek]

Nothing is wrong with firefox.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Reducing_memo ... e_(Firefox)

These numbers will vary because Firefox is configured by default to use more memory on systems that have more memory available and less on systems with less.

[Bartylby]

ahhhh

yea i was way off lol

[solsovly]

I actually really like the AIM 6 client. I have trillian and GAIM installed as well, made the switch over from GAIM. You can remove the ads on the top of the AIM 6 client as well.

I'm actually a really big fan of http://www.meebo.com web client, I used it all the time at my old work and it is really impressive, especially for a web app.

Another one you may wanna try if you are into playing around with windows skins, transparancies and what not is miranda. Really awesome looking, but I just didn't like the functionality of AIM with it.

[Street]

I'm actually a really big fan of http://www.meebo.com web client, I used it all the time at my old work and it is really impressive, especially for a web app.

Me too! I love it. I've been using meebo at work but after getting so many crashes at home with aim6.0, i've started using meebo at home.

[Robert]

I used 5.9 until recently but it crashes all the time now no error message just closes throughout the day