TemperingPick Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Firefox was using 1.6GB of RAM with only 5 tabs open and none of them were Flash. What's up with that? I know Firefox had some memory problems but I didn't know it was that bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹ Posted August 13, 2010 Subscriber¹ Share Posted August 13, 2010 Almost certainly down to your extensions and addons Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c3ntury Posted August 13, 2010 Share Posted August 13, 2010 Its your addons causing a memory leak. It could be flash, but that is unlikely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TemperingPick Posted August 13, 2010 Author Share Posted August 13, 2010 I didn't have an extensions. It was a clean install of Firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yakuzing Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 You should maybe bring some facts to the table like the OS and specs of your computer. Also the version of Firefox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phenom II Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 Download and install the Memory Fox plugin / RAM Back plugin https://addons.mozil...ox/addon/53880/ https://addons.mozil...fox/addon/5972/ Mem Leak plugin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/11922/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TemperingPick Posted August 14, 2010 Author Share Posted August 14, 2010 Okay. Windows 7 Pro 64bit Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 @ 2.00Ghz 4GB of RAM NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS 512MB Firefox 3.6.8 (I think, it's whatever you can download on the official site) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xendrome Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 Okay. Windows 7 Pro 64bit Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 @ 2.00Ghz 4GB of RAM NVIDIA GeForce 9300M GS 512MB Firefox 3.6.8 (I think, it's whatever you can download on the official site) Are we talking about the firefox.exe memory process, or are you looking at the Used Memory for the Operating System? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TemperingPick Posted August 14, 2010 Author Share Posted August 14, 2010 Firefox.exe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phenom II Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 Firefox.exe Use the plugins I posted - Its a well known fact that FF uses a ridiculous amount of ram, thats why people made the plugins ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TemperingPick Posted August 14, 2010 Author Share Posted August 14, 2010 Use the plugins I posted - Its a well known fact that FF uses a ridiculous amount of ram, thats why people made the plugins ! I have to wait till I get home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phenom II Posted August 14, 2010 Share Posted August 14, 2010 I use the memory fox one on my laptop and it dropped the RAM useage from over 300Mb normal use, maybe 6-7 tabs open, to well under 60Mb if not less Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soldier1st Posted August 15, 2010 Share Posted August 15, 2010 there is an easier way to fix this though it takes getting used to so here is the addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/67651/ it is called Bartab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwod Posted August 16, 2010 Share Posted August 16, 2010 Firefox 4 uses the least amount of memory out of all the next gen browsers. In some cases JS or Webpage causes some memory leaks. You may want to test some other webpage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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