-
Firefox memory leaks?
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.
-
-
Quote:
Originally Posted by
hk_mp5kpdw
That is good news for the forthcoming MKbulletin -- "The most resource heavy forum software in the universe!" :p
-
@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.