http://www.pcmech.com/article/firefox-memory-leak-issues/ Helping Normal People Get Their Geek On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 10:29:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.pcmech.com/article/firefox-memory-leak-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-10336 Mark Beifuss Thu, 15 May 2008 13:46:50 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/firefox-memory-leak-issues/#comment-10336 I can do better than that. Stock FF (no plugins etc) consumes more than a gig of memory according to task manager with Marketwatch, Bigcharts, Ebay, 3 search pages on ebay after 2-3 days. I believe Marketwatch may be the cause for the bulk of the problems as it updates itself every couple of minutes. But over a gig come on. Restarting with the same tabs results in 90-110mb. So there is 900mb of waste here and with that much it slows down not only the browser but my system as well. I can do better than that. Stock FF (no plugins etc) consumes more than a gig of memory according to task manager with Marketwatch, Bigcharts, Ebay, 3 search pages on ebay after 2-3 days. I believe Marketwatch may be the cause for the bulk of the problems as it updates itself every couple of minutes. But over a gig come on. Restarting with the same tabs results in 90-110mb. So there is 900mb of waste here and with that much it slows down not only the browser but my system as well.

]]> http://www.pcmech.com/article/firefox-memory-leak-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-7856 David Risley Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:36:07 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/article/firefox-memory-leak-issues/#comment-7856 This is a problem with Firefox, but actually your video barely scratches the surface. After using Firefox daily in my routine work on Windows, I routinely see Firefox using up over 300 MB of memory. As I type this on my Mac Pro, Firefox is using 251 MB of memory under OS X. Granted I haven't closed the browser in 2-3 days, but it still is a beast. This is a problem with Firefox, but actually your video barely scratches the surface. After using Firefox daily in my routine work on Windows, I routinely see Firefox using up over 300 MB of memory. As I type this on my Mac Pro, Firefox is using 251 MB of memory under OS X. Granted I haven’t closed the browser in 2-3 days, but it still is a beast.

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