So I wake up this morning,

[Krazy4Real]

Firefox was running pretty sluggish. I check the task manager to see what's up, and I see this.

Text

I start cracking up. This is the highest I've ever seen. Think I can get a tshirt or something from Mozilla? It's quite an accomplishment I think.



PS - I still like firefox.

 

[SVT Cobra]

lol that's huge.

Why don't you just restart FF and not leave it on?

Also check for a thread about the altering FF so it does a memory refresh upon minimization.

 

[Krazy4Real]

I leave my computer on all the time, and I've never had this happen before. That's why it was so weird. It usually only takes up like 150 MB not 1.4 GB. I'll have to check out that memory refresh thing. See if I can find it with the search feature.

 

[iamaelephant]

Whoa, how'd you manage that?

 

[SSSnail]

I'm in your firefox, haxin your kernel.

I notice this to when sometimes I have multiple (and by multiple, I mean A LOT) of tabs open. This persists if some tabs has something to do with flash player or adobe reader open, and even if I close the tabs, it's still there (end process tree would get rid of it).

 

[Krazy4Real]

I had one window open with six tabs in that window. I also had chatzilla running. Who knows.

*Shrug*

 

[thescreensavers]

Fixing Firefox's memory leak


I noticed a few Firefox threads here have people complaining about how much memory Firefox takes up. This is a known memory leak, and the Mozilla guys haven't gotten around to fixing it for whatever reason. But there's no reason your Firefox should take up 70,000K in memory, so here's how to fix that memory leak and keep Firefox from bloating up.

1. Open a new tab. Type "about:config" without quotes into the address bar and hit enter/click Go.

2. Right-click anywhere, select New, then Integer. In the dialog prompt that appears, type:

browser.cache.memory.capacity

3. Click OK. Another dialog prompt will appear. This is where you decide how much memory to allocate to Firefox. This depends on how much RAM your computer has, but generally you don't want to allocate too little (under 8MB), but if you allocate too much, you might as well not do this. A good recommended setting is 16MB. If you want 16MB, enter this value into the dialog prompt:

16384

(Why 16384 instead of 16000? Because computers use base-12 counting. Thus 16 megabytes = 16384 bytes. Likewise, if you want to double that and allocate 32MB, you'd enter 32768.)

4. Click OK to close the dialog box, then close all instances of Firefox and restart. If your Firefox still uses the same amount of memory, give it a few minutes and it should slowly clear up. If that fails, try a system reboot.

 

[Rubycon]

That's not a firefox memory leak, that's Vista's new "finger pointing" feature where a misbehaving component of the operating system targets another process and makes it take the heat.

 

[Krazy4Real]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
That's not a firefox memory leak, that's Vista's new "finger pointing" feature where a misbehaving component of the operating system targets another process and makes it take the heat.

LOL! Probably. I've never had this issue the whole time I've run firefox with windows xp. I'm probably just going to go back to xp. I gave Vista a shot, and I'm not very impressed by it.

 

[iamaelephant]

Originally posted by: thescreensavers

Fixing Firefox's memory leak


I noticed a few Firefox threads here have people complaining about how much memory Firefox takes up. This is a known memory leak, and the Mozilla guys haven't gotten around to fixing it for whatever reason. But there's no reason your Firefox should take up 70,000K in memory, so here's how to fix that memory leak and keep Firefox from bloating up.

1. Open a new tab. Type "about:config" without quotes into the address bar and hit enter/click Go.

2. Right-click anywhere, select New, then Integer. In the dialog prompt that appears, type:

browser.cache.memory.capacity

3. Click OK. Another dialog prompt will appear. This is where you decide how much memory to allocate to Firefox. This depends on how much RAM your computer has, but generally you don't want to allocate too little (under 8MB), but if you allocate too much, you might as well not do this. A good recommended setting is 16MB. If you want 16MB, enter this value into the dialog prompt:

16384

(Why 16384 instead of 16000? Because computers use base-12 counting. Thus 16 megabytes = 16384 bytes. Likewise, if you want to double that and allocate 32MB, you'd enter 32768.)

4. Click OK to close the dialog box, then close all instances of Firefox and restart. If your Firefox still uses the same amount of memory, give it a few minutes and it should slowly clear up. If that fails, try a system reboot.

Didn't work I'm using FF v2.0.2

 

[thescreensavers]

Originally posted by: iamaelephant

Originally posted by: thescreensavers

Fixing Firefox's memory leak


I noticed a few Firefox threads here have people complaining about how much memory Firefox takes up. This is a known memory leak, and the Mozilla guys haven't gotten around to fixing it for whatever reason. But there's no reason your Firefox should take up 70,000K in memory, so here's how to fix that memory leak and keep Firefox from bloating up.............

Didn't work I'm using FF v2.0.2

Worked for me

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
That's not a firefox memory leak, that's Vista's new "finger pointing" feature where a misbehaving component of the operating system targets another process and makes it take the heat.

:laugh:

 

[yowolabi]

Originally posted by: Krazy4Real

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
That's not a firefox memory leak, that's Vista's new "finger pointing" feature where a misbehaving component of the operating system targets another process and makes it take the heat.

LOL! Probably. I've never had this issue the whole time I've run firefox with windows xp. I'm probably just going to go back to xp. I gave Vista a shot, and I'm not very impressed by it.

You obviously didn't pay full price for your copy of Vista. They specifically made it so expensive so that nobody would feel ok about uninstalling it after realizing they hated it.

 

[eelw]

Got you beat there - Text

 

[Jeff7]

What page was open? Was some Shockwave or Java thing running?

 

[TheStu]

I noticed when I was running Vista that Firefox was incredibly sluggish, that may have been my mere 1 GB of RAM, but i think that for whatever reason, at least on my system, FF leaked a whole lot more under Vista than it ever did under XP. I have since switched back to XP since it is more compatible with what I do (older games, and Parallels Coherence)

 

[Shawn]

Stop using sh|tty extensions.

 

[Krazy4Real]

Originally posted by: eelw
Got you beat there - Text

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[eplebnista]

Originally posted by: MS Dawn
That's not a firefox memory leak, that's Vista's new "finger pointing" feature where a misbehaving component of the operating system targets another process and makes it take the heat.

rofl