Nice. Next ver of FF prevents plugins from taking down the browser.

[Locut0s]

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/lorentz/

 

[zerocool84]

Chrome already does that.

 

[Locut0s]

Chrome already does that.

I don't use Chrome Nice to see it in FF now too.

 

[Newbian]

What kind of plugins causes this issue to begin with?

 

[MrMatt]

Now all they have to do is stop FF from taking down my RAM

 

[dougp]

Now all they have to do is stop FF from taking down my RAM

Yah, how many releases now and there's still that damn memory leak ... big reason why I don't touch FF with a 20 foot pole.

 

[amdhunter]

I can't remember the last time a plugin crashed IE.

 

[Krazy4Real]

I've never had a plugin crash firefox, and I haven't noticed any memory leaks. Maybe I'm just lucky?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Nice, I find certain sites such as liveleak.com totally cause flash to crash badly and it freezes the whole browser. Now I guess it wont do that anymore.

 

[overst33r]

Chrome uses just as much memory on my system if you combine all the individual processes...

 

[dougp]

Chrome uses just as much memory on my system if you combine all the individual processes...

Holy crap, how many of those are addons?

 

[Adul]

Now all they have to do is stop FF from taking down my RAM

cause the 4 or 8 gb of ram is so limited.

 

[overst33r]

Holy crap, how many of those are addons?

nine.

 

[evident]

for fucks sake. opera is totally superior to firefox and has been for the last year. i'd even use IE at this point over FF. that stupid memory leak is ridiculous and it's pathetic that it hasn't even been addressed yet.

 

[Red Squirrel]

for fucks sake. opera is totally superior to firefox and has been for the last year. i'd even use IE at this point over FF. that stupid memory leak is ridiculous and it's pathetic that it hasn't even been addressed yet.

While I like FF, I don't get why they did not fix the memory leak either. It can't be that hard to find it, using Valgrind or something.

 

[Nothinman]

Yah, how many releases now and there's still that damn memory leak ... big reason why I don't touch FF with a 20 foot pole.

I fail to see this memory leak you're talking about.

 

[Red Squirrel]

I fail to see this memory leak you're talking about.

Leave firefox open for a long time while using it every day. The memory usage always grows. Mine right now is using 591MB. Even if I close my tabs (only 2 open) and open new ones, that usage wont go down. If I close it then it will start at maybe 50MB or so.

 

[Nothinman]

Leave firefox open for a long time while using it every day. The memory usage always grows. Mine right now is using 591MB. Even if I close my tabs (only 2 open) and open new ones, that usage wont go down. If I close it then it will start at maybe 50MB or so.

I leave FF open for days at a time usually only hibernating my laptop and it's just fine. Right now I've got a dozen or so tabs open and it's at ~100M.

 

[pyonir]

If the FF "memory leaks" bothered you all that much, you could just do a bit of research.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Memory_Leak

Particularly the part called "Settings that reduce memory usage". I never get higher than 150MB. But...if that's too much work for you, enjoy your other browsers. I like FF and have no issues with it. *shrug*

 

[pcslookout]

I fail to see this memory leak you're talking about.

Same. Most of the people don't even know what they are talking about. I have no memory leak in my firefox. What exactly are you all speaking of ? Explain.

 

[pcslookout]

I leave FF open for days at a time usually only hibernating my laptop and it's just fine. Right now I've got a dozen or so tabs open and it's at ~100M.

Same here. I don't have flash installed though. Refuse to use it anymore.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I leave FF open for days at a time usually only hibernating my laptop and it's just fine. Right now I've got a dozen or so tabs open and it's at ~100M.

You must not be a "heavy browser". After a week of using FF and leaving it open all that time, my memory usage goes up to 1.5GB or more. I've had FF die once I hit about 1.8+GB of VM.

Edit: The RAM leakage isn't the worst part of it. That's the GDI handle leakage. By default, under XP, processes are limited to ~10000 GDI handles. Eventually, FF consumes all of those, and it starts displaying funny. I can sometimes close a page or two to get back enough to display the widgets properly, but eventually it dies.
IE does the same thing though, after leaving it open for a week.

If I bump up the per-process limit on GDI handles to something higher, I run into the system-wide limit of 16000, and Windows itself starts getting VERY screwy once I hit something close to that. Widgets all redraw, located at the upper-left of the screen, clip regions stop existing, etc.

 

[Locut0s]

Who leaved their browser open for a week straight? I keep my PC on 24/7 and brows the web ALL the time and I don't keep it open more than a day or more.

 

[pcslookout]

You must not be a "heavy browser". After a week of using FF and leaving it open all that time, my memory usage goes up to 1.5GB or more. I've had FF die once I hit about 1.8+GB of VM.

Edit: The RAM leakage isn't the worst part of it. That's the GDI handle leakage. By default, under XP, processes are limited to ~10000 GDI handles. Eventually, FF consumes all of those, and it starts displaying funny. I can sometimes close a page or two to get back enough to display the widgets properly, but eventually it dies.
IE does the same thing though, after leaving it open for a week.

If I bump up the per-process limit on GDI handles to something higher, I run into the system-wide limit of 16000, and Windows itself starts getting VERY screwy once I hit something close to that. Widgets all redraw, located at the upper-left of the screen, clip regions stop existing, etc.

I seen this happen before. Though sense it happens in IE too this proves it is not a Firefox problem. I had chrome crash on me as well.

So what do you think is causing it ? I can make it happen within a few hours or even a day.

 

[pcslookout]

Who leaved their browser open for a week straight? I keep my PC on 24/7 and brows the web ALL the time and I don't keep it open more than a day or more.

Why should you not be able to ? You can do it with other programs and games.