Firefox is eating a lot of ram in Vista

[Atlantean]

I have been using vista for a couple weeks now and I have noticed a few problems with firefox... occasionally I won't be able to click on other tabs, and other times the amount of ram it uses starts to get a bit absurd. Earlier when I checked, Firefox was using 1.6 gbs of ram, anyone else having this problem?

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: Atlantean
I have been using vista for a couple weeks now and I have noticed a few problems with firefox... occasionally I won't be able to click on other tabs, and other times the amount of ram it uses starts to get a bit absurd. Earlier when I checked, Firefox was using 1.6 gbs of ram, anyone else having this problem?

I've seen the "can't click on other tabs" thing occasionally in Win2K. I'm pretty sure this is related to crappy javascript/flash ads and not FF itself.

Not sure about the high RAM usage, though. It will use a lot of RAM if you have many tabs open, since each tab runs its own renderer. But 1.6GB seems a little extreme...

 

[Shawn]

It's probably a buggy extention. I have the problem with not being able to click on tabs too though. When I look at the task manager FF is using up all the cpu power on one of my cores. I don't seem to have the problem with it using a lot of ram though.

 

[toekramp]

ie7 + addons 🙂

 

[michaels]

How do you tell how much ram an app is using?

 

[dwcal]

Is RAM usage that high right when you first run Firefox or after using a while? Sounds like a memory leak in Firefox or an extension.

 

[Nothinman]

How do you tell how much ram an app is using?

Taskmgr gives you a rough idea, but it's pretty much impossible to come up with a 100% exact number.

 

[Noema]

Sounds like an extension going berserk in there. I've never had FF use more than 400MBs, even with like 20 tabs going on and lots of flash and stuff in each of them.

 

[imported_Equinox]

Only time I can't click on a tab is when adobe messes up on a PDF.