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02-17-2007, 07:23 PM
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Firefox memory leak?
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....
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02-17-2007, 07:26 PM
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This is an issue with Firefox for many users. Just to be sure, do you have the latest version? 2.0.0.1
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02-17-2007, 07:29 PM
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Jeez, I thought I did but I have 1.5.0.9... Does the new version address this?
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02-17-2007, 07:34 PM
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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 |
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02-17-2007, 07:39 PM
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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.
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02-17-2007, 07:55 PM
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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 |
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02-17-2007, 08:09 PM
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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
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02-18-2007, 03:39 AM
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Don't complain - Opera is worse. You pay for that speed.
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02-18-2007, 11:03 AM
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Come in Ray...
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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. |
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