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After recent update to 3.0.11 i am seeing a lot of memory usage by Fx.
For opening just 10 tabs, it is around 300Mb. [it gets higher, and reaches as high as 500mb].
Response is very slow at that point. Anybody else having similar problems?. I have a lot of extensions installed(firebug,webdeveloper,aadvark,etc,). Could that be causing the problem?.
I am experiencing very high CPU usage with Firefox on Linux (that caused slowdowns). I think it's due to the flash plugin, though. I installed a flash blocker and haven't noticed any slowdowns since then.
If you can reproduce the slowdowns at will, you can just disable those extensions one by one and see.
I can't seem to get the "When Firefox starts: Show windows and tabs from last time" option to work correctly... it only shows a blank page. I've only got noscript as a plug-in/extension.
Thanks for the replies.
I tried disabling all plugins still no improvement.(It starts with 50Mb initially and goes high like crazy). Time for a reinstall i guess..
Firefox leaks, but it's a slow & gradual thing. Flash accelerates the process. (This is under Linux...) Session manager makes life easier - close firefox, open firefox, restore last session. Memory under control, for a while. (Like, a couple of days.) It's using about 150-200MHz worth of CPU at the moment.
I'm not sure if my firefox leaks memory. Memory usage does increase over a few days, but my number of tabs increases linearly, too. I usually close it and restart at about 40 tabs.
Pretty much every build I've used has leaked... which is why I don't use Fire "Opps where did that pointer go?" Fox.
When you have 4GB of RAM, the problem is a bit more bearable :D.
Also, the 3.x was a massive improvement over 2.x. My own experience has been pretty much leak-free since I upgraded.
FYI, Firefox 3.5 RC1.
That is good news for the forthcoming MKbulletin -- "The most resource heavy forum software in the universe!" :pQuote:
Originally Posted by hk_mp5kpdw
@cyberfish: I usually close my firefox (well, iceweasel) when I have about sixty tabs, I think . . . .
I have quite a bit of memory, so I don't mind when firefox takes a lot of it. What annoys me is firefox's plugins (usually flash) taking a little bit of my CPU time. You can usually SIGSTOP or SIGTERM the flash plugin without hurting firefox itself, though, fortunately. :)
You could also create a new Firefox profile to clean up the old should you experience problems with it. It cleans up most errors, though not memory leaks from Firefox itself, of course.
A lot plugins are known to have leaks, though.
But I can tell you that you are not alone with Firefox eating a lot of memory and being sluggish at times.
Well, have any come across memory leaks on IE. I seem to stangly see them on my machine. I use IE at work. It just takes a hell lot of memory which brings the whole system down.
-ssharish
There's a very famous leak in IE6's handling of JavaScript/DOM interaction. It's there in a less discoverable way in IE7, too.
Jeez, what are you guys doing to have 40+ tabs open at once? Surely there can't be that much smut worth looking at.
Firefox works fine for me, I've never noticed any slow downs in all the years I've used it. Can't stomach any other browser. Done enough web design to put me off IE for life, Opera sucks and Google Chrome doesn't even have smooth scrolling.
The browse issue has been there for me for a long time. I always realise that my browser is pretty slow in rendering. I don’t know if this is to do something with the html download from the internet or just the rendering. Really annoying while loading up the page.
What I’m thinking is that there might be some Trojan or any other processor sitting behind somewhere eating my memory.
Is there any free tool to check if there her anything still hanging around and antivirus software i could probably scan and find out.
Cheers guys!
-ssharish
>> What I’m thinking is that there might be some Trojan or any other processor sitting behind somewhere eating my memory.
It's possible. IE has *lots* of security holes. You should avoid it like the plague. Another problem with IE is that it doesn't really give you full control over what components are installed, and as a result so many objects loaded at once (even if their all legitimate) can bring the browser to it's knees. I use Firefox, and strictly limit what components are installed and enabled, and the browser runs like the gentle wind for me. Besides the browser itself, though, processes running on your system can have a signifgant effect on your browsing experience. I always keep a tight grip on what non-system processes are allowed to run in the background or loaded on startup (usually 0), as well as the services that are loaded (usually 5 or 6). The only time I ever have performance issues these days is when running Flash or Java. Otherwise, my system is always snappy and responsive.
>> Is there any free tool to check if there her anything still hanging around and antivirus software i could probably scan and find out.
I don't use any antivirus software myself, as I've found that most seem to have negative effects on the system. I'm sure there are exceptions to this, though. Personally, I've found a "do-it-yourself" approach to most effective. Tools like Sysinternals Filemon, ProcessMon, RegMon, PortMon, etc allow you to monitor in real time what's going on in your system, and I've found them immensely useful in keeping everything running optimally. Unfortunately, Microsoft bought them out, and only offer a handful of the complete suite, so you'll either have to find them elsewhere (such as the WayBackMachine) or else use some other product.
Running Firefox 3.5 (actually Shiretoko... wait, did they just change the unbranded name? EDIT: nvm, that's the official codename) with 18 tabs open. Flash disabled (I use a plugin that disables all flash animations until I click on them). Memory usage is fine (~150MB). CPU usage isn't, though, at almost constant 50%, and I'm not touching anything (not loading any pages, etc). This is certainly not good for laptop battery life...
Taking suggestions for a new browser (Linux). I want to give Konqueror a try, but I run GNOME, so it's not integrated well.
>> Running Firefox 3.5
Yeah, I tried it out myself and it seemed to run slower and was more CPU-intensive than the earlier release. Hopefully, that won't be the case with the final release.
>> Taking suggestions for a new browser (Linux).
Have you tried Opera? I haven't used it in a while, but I remember it being pretty good. It has a lot of cool features, too, like mouse-motion and voice-enabled browsing.
Heh, Luckily I didn't install 3.5, although i was considering to install it soon. But with beta releases who can say what would happen?. Only very few i know had worked well(*cough* windows *cough* 7).Quote:
Originally Posted by cyberfish
btw, I use chrome whenever i find fx working sluggishly but only use it as a secondary browser.
I will try Opera next. I was trying to keep my computer open source... but well... it's free =P.
Will also try Chrome once the Linux version matures (the current Linux preview is reportedly missing a lot of features)
Still a 3.0 here, but with 24 tabs, after loading, the CPU goes down to 0% as it should. (600MB RAM - but those are very heavy pages I have open.)
Trying out Opera right now. Loving it so far. Just so much snappier (scrolling, changing tabs, etc), even on my slow laptop. But why does it have a "Download Opera" link in the default bookmark list...
And I love SpeedDial!
I tried Opera for a week or so. Not much better in terms of resource consumptions compared to FF. I think I will go back to FF (since I use GNOME, and FF is better integrated).
Maybe it's my desktop environment... I will give XFCE a try.