Firefox memory leaks?

[supernova_00]

Hmm I'm thinking prefetch needs to be disabled by default. You are probably still expirencing fastback cacheing that is holding onto the memory. Try going to 5 small pages afterwards like yahoo, google, msn, hotmail, ebay and watch the memory go down each page load. make sure you do this in one tab though.

[ThePitt]

Firefox memory leaks?

Memory leaks in Firefox? Nooo... That never happend :whistle:

try to reduce the cache... Or Disable some extensions. Or move to opera :p

[supernova_00]

ThePitt: read the first post

[Midnight Mick]

I guess the reason why no one wants to give out the URL's they visit when they suffer memory leaks is cause they are porno sites! :shifty:

[supernova_00]

Probably. Well at least pm them to me. I don't care if you are surfing porn sites. We need to fix these bugs even if the bugs are only on porn sites.

[em_te]

I guess the reason why no one wants to give out the URL's they visit when they suffer memory leaks is cause they are porno sites! :shifty:

Ditto

[supernova_00]

Like I said the other day if the links are porn links, please pm them to me. needs fixed no matter what kind of sites the leaks occur on. Plus just because the leak happens on that site for you doesn't mean the same type of link isn't occuring on another site but not on th same scale because might not have as many pics.

[lordtinuviel]

i just have to say this:

since i found this topic i did the following:

update to 1.5.0.1

erase my profile

get rid of adblock

start using again the usercrome,usercontent,&users to customize,tweak firefox

i use to have like 20 extensions

now i am using only 7 and i teste it one by one

and the result is that i dont have anymore problems, yes from time to time ff get to use like 60-75mb of memory but i think its acceptable and it doesnt hog anything on my pc and the embbeded media problems tha i used to hacve dissppear so now i'm sure it was an extension

thanks supernova_00

I'm using:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

my extensions:

bbcodextra

download statusbar

fireftp

imagetoolbar

miniize to tray

superdrag&go

tabmixplus

themes:

cristal dream

[supernova_00]

Donno if you disabled fastback cache and pipelining but it sounds like what a few of us have confirmed, that ad block is a huge culprit. Adblock plus works great though (same backend but developed by different folks)

[lordtinuviel]

i didi this:

network.prefetch-next to false

i look for this browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers but didnt find it, how do i add that entry?

i wasnt using adblock; i was using adblockplus, but i get rid of it and just add these to my usercontent

anything else i can do?

[supernova_00]

So disabling prefetch helped a lot then? Which site was you browsing when you tested with prefetching and with it disabled?

[lordtinuviel]

let me think.....well funny thing right now i have 64mb with just this window open....let me check few sites and i get back to u...in the mean time could u tell me how i add:

browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers

i know i have to go to about:config and right click, new but then what i have to choose?

[supernova_00]

new then integer, set it to 0

[Subaru]

Set 'browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers' to 0, default is 5

GOSH !!!

Mine was at 50 :|

I have no idea HOW it changed from 5 to 50 :pinch:

[supernova_00]

Wow I bet you had some serious memory hogging huh?

[AltoidBox]

My max_viewers thing was set to 50 as well. And this is on a fresh install. So maybe someone accidentally set the default to 50 instead of 5.

[supernova_00]

You guys must have installed an extension that changed it to 50 or you have some tweak in your userchrome.css file to changed it. How is the memory useage doing now?

I know you said fresh install but you might of had a profile already on your computer from a previous installation.

also maybe you was looking at the wrong preference browser.sessionhistory.max_entries and is the number of pages to store in the session history (Go menu, Back/Forward menus)

you guys want browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers

[bigbear]

No 'browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers' is at -1 you want

'browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers'

I don't have "browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers" but have this instead: browser.sessionhistory.max_entries, with value at 50. Should I change this?

[TYT]

Looking at my config, I noticed that I have a browser.sessionhistory.max_entries that is set to 50, but I had to manually enter browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers and set that to 0.

Dont mess these up.

[supernova_00]

You guys are getting confused.

browser.sessionhistory.max_entries = 50

browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers = 0 (Will have to add this as an integer = to 0 if you are having memory issues and don't care if back/forward navigation is a half second faster)

browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers = -1

[AltoidBox]

Ah. You're right. I was looking at browser.sessionhistory.max_entries, I didn't have one for .max_viewers, but have now added it. Though after ditching the prefetch and getting rid of Adblock, my memory usage is about half what it used to be. Now its around 100MB combined RAM & VM with seven tabs open, though none of them are graphically intensive.

[+Neyht Subscriber²]

Don't confuse the "browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers" pref with "browser.sessionhistory.max_entries". max_viewers is the pref that needs to be set. You must create "browser.sessionhistory.max_viewers" so it holds an integer value (5 is a good start) as by default it's unset.

Got that from another site so max_viewers has to be created if it isn't there--max_entries is something else.

[lordtinuviel]

well cant say this site or another one, but after surfin a while i went to:

yonkis and then to WinCustomize and firefox jump from 30mb to 49mb and then to 69mb and from that point it justs keeps going up

now after that it stays around 60, right now i just add it the browser.sessionhistory.max_entries and i'm surfin to see if something happens

[supernova_00]

I'll check out both of those sites to see if something is leaking

[lordtinuviel]

after adding browser.sessionhistory.max_entries memory usage is really low, 4-5 tabs open and just 38mb, great!!!