Does anyone else have a huge memory leak in Firefox 1.5?

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trmiv

Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
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I don't have either of the extensions you mentioned and my Firefox 1.5 hogs memory like crazy. I currently have one window open with 8 tabs, and Firefox is using 524 megs of ram, and 512 megs of virtual memory. It just keeps climbing even if I just leave the browser sitting there.
 

secretanchitman

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Apr 11, 2001
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i have two tabs open, google news and AT, and its using...123,132K of memory, and 110,756 of VM. retarded. they need to patch this quickly, quite honestly. if i revert to 1.0.7, will the memory leak at least reduce a bit? i dont want to go to IE/opera because i want my extensions...
 

skriefal

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Apr 10, 2000
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Odd. I usually have 15-20 tabs open, and I saw this memory problem frequently in 1.0.7 on two PCs -- in some cases I saw memory usage climb beyond 600MB. Both PCs have been upgraded to 1.5.0, and the problem seems to have vanished on both. I'll grant that I have not being using 1.5.0 for as long as I used 1.0.7, but so far the results seem better than they did with 1.0.7. No extensions; and the same set of plug-ins with both versions.
 

secretanchitman

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okay, im seriously going to revert to 1.0.7. my home page is google news, then i went to AT via my bookmarks toolbar and it opened in the same tab. my memory and VM jumped like crazy. freaking ridiculous.
 

skriefal

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I just tried that with 1.5.0 -- I even refreshed the main AT and AT Forums pages several times. Memory usage barely budged at all. But I don't have the Flash or Ad-Block plug-ins installed...
 

daniel1113

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Jun 6, 2003
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Originally posted by: secretanchitman
okay, im seriously going to revert to 1.0.7. my home page is google news, then i went to AT via my bookmarks toolbar and it opened in the same tab. my memory and VM jumped like crazy. freaking ridiculous.

Do you have any other programs open competing for the memory?
 

Anton74

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Jun 30, 2005
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Another update. Today, I finally re-enabled AdBlock, and memory usage / VM size are now both over 170MB after several hours of normal use (~15 tabs open), and steadily climbing with further use. It appears that AdBlock is the biggest culprit, at least on my system. Or maybe it just happens to not play nice with another extension or software component I have?

It seems that FF is also becoming less responsive with the increased memory usage. This is of course somewhat subjective, but it is what caused me to look at memory usage in the first place.

I think I'll try this "AdBlock Plus" to see if works any better for me. In the meantime, good thing I'm also filtering with DansGuardian - although AdBlock is a much more elegant and convenient solution for cutting down on ads.

Anton
 

Anton74

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Jun 30, 2005
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One other thing - I noticed that extensions can be re-ordered (AdBlock is at the bottom FWIW). Does this make any difference at all in the way FF handles the extensions, or is this for aesthetic reasons only?
 

Anton74

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Jun 30, 2005
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Nope,

20mb here
WTF? 20mb? Just starting it up on a blank page uses more than that for me.
That must be due to extensions (very heavy theme maybe?) - see my prior post (the last one on page 1).

By the way,

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." -Stephen Roberts
Clever quote, but when you understand why I believe in God, you'll understand why I don't believe in any other ones. :)

"We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare and love we can spare. And in return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made." - M. Facklam
A tad cynical, but that's a good one though.

Anton
 

Anton74

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Jun 30, 2005
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Today, I finally re-enabled AdBlock, and memory usage / VM size are now both over 170MB after several hours of normal use (~15 tabs open), and steadily climbing with further use. It appears that AdBlock is the biggest culprit, at least on my system.
After an "upgrade" from AdBlock 0.5.2.? to AdBlock Plus 0.5.10, FF is now well-behaved again in the memory department - or at least like it was before.

Anton
 

n0cmonkey

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Jun 10, 2001
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8 tabs, including a couple of icky ones, and I've been opening/closing them all shift. ~120MB.
 

MrDudeMan

Lifer
Jan 15, 2001
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FF 1.5 here and my useage is at 180-200mb. did anyone find a resolution to this problem? I should add that I am not even using a single extension.
 

Tostada

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Oct 9, 1999
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My Firefox just keeps growing. It was taking up over 400MB. Now I closed every tab except the one I'm typing in right now, and it's still 311,948 K.

That's nice if it's using RAM for cache when you're not using the RAM. I've got 2GB RAM and over 1GB of it is listed as "Available Physical Memory," but I don't know if I'd trust Firefox to release the RAM if my available memory got low.
 

Tostada

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Oct 9, 1999
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Note that I've left Firefox open for several days at this point, but it's not reasonable to just keep eating more RAM like that. It actually does start to give you a delay when you click on tabs once it's over about 300MB.
 

erikistired

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Sep 27, 2000
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Originally posted by: screw3d
Memory use != memory leak. If you close the browser, memory is released. I'm not saying that it's a good thing though.

about once a week i close the browser and it doesn't release. i open task manager and it's still here with ~100mb of ram in tow. on my system i don't really notice it that much (altho if i have a problem that's the first thing i check) but on my parents' system it bogs down the whole machine. i don't know if you'd call that a leak, but it's a problem regardless. and no i don't have any plugins.
 

Noema

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Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Remove all those crappy extensions and report back. I've got 9 tabs open and I'm only using 88MB according to task manager. I've been opening and closing busy tabs for a while too.

Limit your cache a more too.

Yep.

7 tabs here, 68 MBs.

You cannot properly troubleshoot this until you get rid of the variables, i.e. Extensions.
 

secretanchitman

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Apr 11, 2001
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im using 1.5.0.2. i got it from msfn.org. i dont know what the fixes are though...

yes the memory leak is still there. its probably down about 5-6K at best.
 

cKGunslinger

Lifer
Nov 29, 1999
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Originally posted by: secretanchitman
im using 1.5.0.2. i got it from msfn.org. i dont know what the fixes are though...

yes the memory leak is still there. its probably down about 5-6K at best.

I've had FF open all day: Text
 

secretanchitman

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Apr 11, 2001
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Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Originally posted by: secretanchitman
im using 1.5.0.2. i got it from msfn.org. i dont know what the fixes are though...

yes the memory leak is still there. its probably down about 5-6K at best.

I've had FF open all day: Text

lol...if you have 512MB if ram, it slows down the comp at times and thats a lot to me.
 

EKKC

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May 31, 2005
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holy crap i have 2GB of RAM and my firefox is running at 557MB NOW!!!

i'm pwned!