The RAM on my machine has ranged from 24 - 31% today mostly FF running. Please note the 24 % is current it hit 31% about 3 hours ago and has decreased ever since ...........
FF 7.01
Win 7 64 bit
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| Author: | Fogmeister [ Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:14 am ] |
| Post subject: | Firefox Memory Leak? |
Does anyone else have a problem with FF slowly consuming more and more RAM? I just had to restart it because it was using over 1GB of RAM. I closed it and the usage dropped by about 1.3GB of RAM and my computer sped up. This is a brand new core i5 computer so not a slow coach and was acting really unresponsively with FF open. |
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| Author: | AlunD [ Wed Oct 19, 2011 1:53 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Firefox Memory Leak? |
The RAM on my machine has ranged from 24 - 31% today mostly FF running. Please note the 24 % is current it hit 31% about 3 hours ago and has decreased ever since ........... FF 7.01 Win 7 64 bit |
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| Author: | MrStevenRogers [ Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:41 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Firefox Memory Leak? |
in the address bar place about:config press enter right click (within this window) then add integer then use this browser.cache.memory.capacity set the value to -1 this will set the browser to use a percentage of memory (ram) instead of trying to use the max amount close the browser down and then restart the browser ... |
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| Author: | Fogmeister [ Wed Oct 19, 2011 2:54 pm ] | |||||||||
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Cool I've set this now. Will keep an eye on it. Thanks |
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| Author: | Linux_User [ Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:02 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Firefox Memory Leak? |
You could use Chrome... |
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| Author: | Fogmeister [ Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:26 pm ] | |||||||||
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no, chrome doesn't work with the help desk software we use at work. Otherwise I would. |
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| Author: | Linux_User [ Wed Oct 19, 2011 9:52 pm ] | ||||||||||||||||||
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Ah I see. Count yourself lucky, I'm stuck with IE6. 
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| Author: | big_D [ Thu Oct 20, 2011 4:50 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Firefox Memory Leak? |
The leak came with version 4.0, it was supposed to have been fixed with 7, but I'm still having some problems, although better than 6. Steve Gibson, on Security Now, has said that it was so bad on his machine (Windows XP), that it was using over 1.2GB of memory after the machine slept over night. Closing the open tabs would reduce it to 800MB. Quitting and restarting dropped it to around 200MB. He went back through the previous versions and is currently on 3.6.n, which is the oldest supported version and this doesn't have such a big memory leak problem. |
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| Author: | pcernie [ Thu Oct 27, 2011 10:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Firefox Memory Leak? |
I'm on 3.6 cos a lot of the add-ons I use only worked with it last time I checked, and I can't be arsed messing about these days. The newer versions haven't had much of a speed boost in any sense IME 
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| Author: | big_D [ Fri Oct 28, 2011 4:09 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Firefox Memory Leak? |
My laptop has been up for several days and FF has been running since the new start. It has had several hundred open tabs and Flash objects. It is currently using 218MB. It looks like they have finally solved the problem - the previous version would be up over 1GB used memory by now. |
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| Author: | Spreadie [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:16 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Firefox Memory Leak? |
FF7 has been a bit of a PITA of late, hogging loads of memory and crashing. So, I've uninstalled it and decided to do a fresh install. I can't connect to Mozilla though, is the site down? - can one of you nice people try? Cheers Dave |
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| Author: | JJW009 [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:30 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Firefox Memory Leak? |
Working for me: http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/ Can't find the UK address though
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| Author: | Spreadie [ Wed Nov 09, 2011 9:04 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Firefox Memory Leak? |
Yep, working for me now too. Cheers. |
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| Author: | Fogmeister [ Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:31 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Firefox Memory Leak? |
I've juts been updated to Version 8. It's only using 173MB of RAM atm. Will keep monitoring it. |
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| Author: | big_D [ Fri Nov 11, 2011 5:01 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Firefox Memory Leak? |
3 days and a couple of hundred tabs later... And it is using 193MB on my machine, about 50MB less than Firefox 7 after a week. |
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