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Fire fox memory leak.
« on: July 03, 2010, 10:44:11 PM »
Anyone know of a patch for this.
I just had to reboot my computer after about a week because firefox was holding onto about 1.4 gigs of memory.
Its been up for about 3 hours now and its consuming 300 megs. Love the fox but this is a pain in the ass.
I'm on version 3.5.10 on a xp machine.
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Re: Fire fox memory leak.
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2010, 10:47:21 PM »
My FF has been using tons of memory, destroying the stability of everything on my computer, and crashing constantly.
I'm really growing tired of it in general.
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Re: Fire fox memory leak.
« Reply #2 on: July 03, 2010, 11:43:55 PM »
Quote from: never_retreat on July 03, 2010, 10:44:11 PM
Anyone know of a patch for this.
I just had to reboot my computer after about a week because firefox was holding onto about 1.4 gigs of memory.
Its been up for about 3 hours now and its consuming 300 megs. Love the fox but this is a pain in the ass.
I'm on version 3.5.10 on a xp machine.

Try updating to the latest version. I'm on 3.6.6
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Re: Fire fox memory leak.
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2010, 01:16:46 AM »
Quote from: Mabs on July 03, 2010, 10:47:21 PM
My FF has been using tons of memory, destroying the stability of everything on my computer, and crashing constantly.
I'm really growing tired of it in general.

Really, I've never had any problems with FF.  Maybe Mabs you should stop going to those sites about Turkish prisons and gladiators? =D =D =D
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Re: Fire fox memory leak.
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2010, 02:04:53 AM »
I've had my FF browser open for several hours now, and it's only about 125 MB (at least according to Task Manager).  And I've been streaming Pandora the whole time.  What OS you be runnin'?
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Re: Fire fox memory leak.
« Reply #5 on: July 04, 2010, 10:58:29 AM »
I usually have quite a few tabs open but thats what it is supposed to do.
Plus closing all the tabs does not reduce the memory usage.
Its an xp pro machine.

I know someone is going to chime in and say I need to install linux. Can't do that I still need a winblows machine. (I have both)

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Re: Fire fox memory leak.
« Reply #6 on: July 04, 2010, 11:33:32 AM »
Quote from: never_retreat on July 04, 2010, 10:58:29 AM
I know someone is going to chime in and say I need to install linux.


You should use Internet Explorer.   =D
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Re: Fire fox memory leak.
« Reply #7 on: July 04, 2010, 12:22:58 PM »
Quote from: Fistful on July 04, 2010, 11:33:32 AM

You should use Internet Explorer.   =D
On linux via an emulator.
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Re: Fire fox memory leak.
« Reply #8 on: July 04, 2010, 02:00:19 PM »
Quote from: roo_ster on July 04, 2010, 12:22:58 PM
On linux via an emulator.

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Re: Fire fox memory leak.
« Reply #9 on: July 04, 2010, 02:01:54 PM »
Quote from: Fistful on July 04, 2010, 02:04:53 AM
I've had my FF browser open for several hours now, and it's only about 125 MB (at least according to Task Manager).  And I've been streaming Pandora the whole time.  What OS you be runnin'?

That is about the same as mine @128 MB on version 3.6.6 as well.
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Re: Fire fox memory leak.
« Reply #10 on: July 04, 2010, 04:06:51 PM »
Mine is 3.6.6, on Win 7 Pro 64.  I'm just going by the Processes tab on Task Manager, and it has it at about 58 MB right now (just opened it ten minutes ago), versus 125 MB after several hours.  I don't know if that indicates a memory leak (whatever that is), but it's not as severe as n_r is experiencing. 
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Re: Fire fox memory leak.
« Reply #11 on: July 04, 2010, 06:06:20 PM »
Since nobody has said it.

Maybe your APS avatar is using memory as fast as Beavis uses T.P.  =D

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Re: Fire fox memory leak.
« Reply #12 on: July 04, 2010, 07:30:57 PM »
As I understand it, it isn't a leak per se but the effect is the same regardless.

I have yet to see mine go over 200K, but I don't leave mine open for days at a time. About the longest I've ever done at a single stretch is 6 hours
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