Firefox memory usage balloons up

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supernova_00

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Mozilla devs acknowledge that there might be some sort of problem. BUT, people always just bitch and bitch saying that Firefox is using too much memory...barely anyone runs the programs that would analyse the memory useage and all kinds of other technical stuff but these people never run the programs (which are small download and freeware btw) and send the report to mozilla. Its like the people are just making this crap up because I along with lots and lots of other never had/have a problem with memory useage. and the people that do bitch never send in these reports to help the devs out.

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amERICa

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I don't use skins.

And why would that be the problem?

I have heard many reports that skinning it makes it slower in general. Lets hear it for inefficient programing.

Riddle me this, how much memory for firefox take up if we were still in the days of 1024 k memory?

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morficus

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Kindly report the OS you are using as well. No memory problems here using Gentoo Linux, but every Windows box I have ever used it on experiences this.

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yeah, that's why I don't biatch about it too much - 'cause I know that widows it self doesn't handle memory in the best way.

But anyhow, I've got 512mb of RAM(soon 1GB), and when I use apps likes Paint Shop Pro, Flash MX or Visual Basic (that take a a LOT of memory) - I'm not on the web. It's work or play -not both :p

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Mozilla devs acknowledge that there might be some sort of problem. BUT, people always just bitch and bitch saying that Firefox is using too much memory...barely anyone runs the programs that would analyse the memory useage and all kinds of other technical stuff but these people never run the programs (which are small download and freeware btw) and send the report to mozilla. Its like the people are just making this crap up because I along with lots and lots of other never had/have a problem with memory useage. and the people that do bitch never send in these reports to help the devs out.

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supernova_00

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? i guess your meaning something about crap hitting the fan?

I for one am one that could help with the memory issues but no one ever submits enough info for us to be able to figure out what is causing the leakage. Ok memory leaks or is hogged on your PC, not everyones, so each instance is seperate because its not like everyone is expirencing the same issue caused by the same thing.

I do know that some of the memory hogging is caused by images not being unloaded from the cache. though and that is being worked on.

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Raum

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I've had FF take up to 300 megs of memory. This was with no more than 10 tabs open. Usually it's between 50 and 120 megs for me, but occaissonally it gets to ridiculous amounts such as this.

Also, 1.0 is the least stable build I've used, on my system.

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supernova_00

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you probably had a bunch tabs open that had lots of graphics. unstable? its the stablest build ever. Try a clean install and new profile. The older profiles with tweaks and such caused some problems which cause firefox to lag and crash from old extensions that left footprints in the profile.

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supernova_00

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I have been using Firefox since its conception and only had memory issue back then. Never had any issues after at least phoenix 0.5 and I have always extensively smoketested Firefox, phoenix and firebird. So you probably have some hack on your OS that screws up the memory management or you changed some setting in Firefox that you shouldn't of.

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heres what i've noticed about mem useage ;)

mine generally runs at 10 - 30mb with one tab open this depends on how many pages i've loaded on that one tab add another tab and it will increase by about 7mb every tab after that seems to take about 1mb.

viewing flash content esspecially flash content with embedded FLV's will take up lots of memory (this is detailed on macromedias site and various other flash related sites FLV's are held in memory.

Other plugins/extensions also take ram i'm currently using a VRML plugin and that grabs 20mb when it loads and however much else it needs for the scene. To be honest though its not big deal minimise then maximise and it uses less (for some reason)

If your really bothered why use it? or failing that increase your page file buy more ram (i know buying more ram isn't always an option for everyone)

Really though memory useage is never something that can be exactly measured it all depends on what the system is up to at a given time its generally adviserable to stop some of the system services you never use always frees up memory and closes threads.

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dragon2611

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my firefox mem usage is 33mb atm and rising (btw minimising does drop the mem usage quite a bit)

if someone wants to reccomend a tool for analising the mem usage and tells me the best way to about it id happily submit the data to the mozilla devs to look into :)

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why is it auto update cant update my firefox to the latest version for me :( seems a bit pointless if it never downlaods program updates when they are avaliable

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Raum

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you probably had a bunch tabs open that had lots of graphics. unstable? its the stablest build ever. Try a clean install and new profile. The older profiles  with tweaks and such caused some problems which cause firefox to lag and crash from old extensions that left footprints in the profile.

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No, they were all average pages, like xangas, forums and so forth. I don't even know of any graphic intensive sites I visit on a regular basis anyways. Also, it was around 10 tabs max when that happened, anymore open than that and FF tends to crash on me.

When 1.0 was released I did a completely fresh install. Deleted profile etc. Still, I get at least a crash a day and it's sluggish as hell for me. If I'm at a page with say, some thumbnails of photos from a party, and I click 5 or so at once to open in tabs, the browser is rendered unusable for 10-20 seconds more often than not, because it's sitting there loading.

I've had many times where FF simply freezes and the only thing to kill it is end process in taskman. I even had onetime I was using it where it just terminated itself out of no where with no warning.

Often when I'm typing somehting, like this reply, FF will go back for no reason. I won't accidently hit a hotkey or click a mouse button...it just goes back for no reason.

All this happens to me and I'm quite positive I'm free of viruses, spyware and the like. All using a clean install of 1.0, completely updated on a machine with over a gb of ram etc.

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supernova_00

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yes please do Raum so things like that can be worked out. Actually I basically have the crashing problem on a computer at college. Computers are all set up exactly the same, all are using the same user.js file and same settings for everything, same theme, and same extensions and yet only one computer always has problems. I'm completly confused on why it does and even after repeadted fresh clean installs the same thing.

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