bangbang023 Veteran Posted August 31, 2005 Veteran Share Posted August 31, 2005 Removing flash helps with CPU useage control, not memory all that much. The cache version has done almost nothing for me in terms of memory useage. Over time, Fx still uses a very large chunk of RAM and VM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l0g0ut Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 http://fusion94.org/archives/2005/07/firefox_memory.html people have been bitching about how firefox is a memory hog. Try this fix. So if you've used Firefox you've probably noticed that it suffers from what can be described as a fairly harsh "memory leak". The main cause of the problem appears to lie within the plugin for Flash content. There are 2 workarounds that I've located.The first is rather straightforward and simple but wasn't practical for me. All you have to do is un-install/remove the flash plugin and performance increases significantly. The other option (and the one I'm using) requires you to make some changes to the Firefox configuration. This is how you fix this "memory leak" problem. (It's not actually a leak, it just doesn't flush the cache it has.) 1)Type about:config into the location bar and press enter 2)Right click any line to bring up a sub-menu 3)Choose "new">"integer" 4)paste this into the dialogue that appears: browser.cache.memory.capacity 5)Next click Okay 6)Specify the amount in kb (about 60000 should do) in the next dialogue that appears 7)Restart Firefox and happy surfing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IceDogg Posted August 31, 2005 Share Posted August 31, 2005 bangbang023 is right. This isn't the answer. I use an extension (NoScript) that blocks flash and all plugins until I whitelist (allow) the site to use them. And I still get this from time to time. I don't get it as bad as some complain about. But I don't do a lot of tabs at one time and I don't leave it open for extended periods of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangbang023 Veteran Posted August 31, 2005 Veteran Share Posted August 31, 2005 To piggyback on what IceDogg said, closing Firefox when not using it is the key. If you leave it running and walk away, it starts to get a little hungry over time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l0g0ut Posted August 31, 2005 Author Share Posted August 31, 2005 hmm... you guys seems to be right.. it seems to help a little bit but not making that big a difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bangbang023 Veteran Posted August 31, 2005 Veteran Share Posted August 31, 2005 hmm... you guys seems to be right.. it seems to help a little bit but not making that big a difference. 586456875[/snapback] Thanks for the effort, though. I know I appreciate anyone trying to contribute to the community and this is clearly just that. (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orionrobots Posted September 15, 2005 Share Posted September 15, 2005 You could also use the SessionSaver extension. What this does is preserve the tabs, and history and even edits of the tabs. While it is a godsend if fx crashes sometimes, it also means that if it has started to hog too much you can just close fx, and then open it again later with all the same tabs... A very nice add on. Closing and reopening Firefox can reduce its memory usage by a reasonable amount. I find one of the worst things to do, which I often did before sessionsaver was to leave firefox running on my computer and then go to work or to sleep. In the morning, it takes a very long time to read everything swapped out to disk back into memory. The best advise - use sessionsaver, and close it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbear Posted September 23, 2005 Share Posted September 23, 2005 Is there any fix for this? I noticed that the memory leak only started to get very bad after installing 1.06. Previous versions would stop at around 150MB or so... now 1.06 keeps on going until a whopping 600MB! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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