Firefox memory leak?

[kmillerusaf]

Hey what's going on everyone,

I just noticed how much resources my firefox is using after only three hours of being open. I love to open more than one tab and leave them open but it is eating a lot of resources to do that (currently over 113K). Is there a fix for this or a browser out there that has the same functions as firefox but doesn't have this problem? There's no way I am going back to firefox though....

[Alaron]

This is an issue with Firefox for many users. Just to be sure, do you have the latest version? 2.0.0.1

[kmillerusaf]

Jeez, I thought I did but I have 1.5.0.9... Does the new version address this?

[Alaron]

I don't see it in the release notes. But I had the same issue with FF1.5. I have yet to try 2.0.

Check out this article on memory issues with Firefox: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Memory_Leak

[kmillerusaf]

Just read the very same page 5 minutes ago... It says to download 2.0 to fix it but I am not sure that it will do exactly that. I don't have any additional extensions, themes, or plugins though so I am not sure why 4 tabs would use so much memory.

[ztx]

Its more a feature, since Firefox uses whats called FastBack, it caches the pages you visit to memory so you can go back/forward quicker.

Restarting Firefox will bring its memory back down, if it gets pretty high.

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/009749.html

[kmillerusaf]

That made a lot of sense, thanks man. I set my value to '5' which still may be a lot considering how many times I actually hit the back button but it's better than the default '8' for 1gb of RAM. Thanks again ztx

[glc]

Don't complain - Opera is worse. You pay for that speed.

[faulkner132]

I stopped using FF at work because it would consistently take up 150 MB+ of memory. IE7 takes up maybe 60 MB with the same pages loaded.

I'll sacrifice a second or two for 90 MB of memory.