Firefox = Titanic Memory Leaker

[thethethe]

Eeish this is insane. I've been messing around with Firefox and i pulled up a resource window to see why my computer is slowing down and I realize that with 5 tabs open, I've been using 148MB of memory. I close all but 1, and I'm still using 128MB...

EEISH!

And what's worst was I let Firefox idle for a bit, doing nothing to it, and I watched the memory usage start climbing for no particular reason.

There are 2 things that... blegh... on the internet:

1.) Mozilla
2.) Firefox

I've noticed the major memory leaks all right.

[filburt1]

Pfft.


It's peaked at around 600 MB. You know something's going on when your computer hits a brick wall and the hard drive starts thrashing (noisy with RAID 10,000 RPM drives).

[MGM]

Are you using Vista? Looks cool...

MGM out

[filburt1]

I was using Windowblinds at the time of the screenshot (a month or two ago). Now I'm just using the Windows Classic theme built into Windows XP given Windowblinds 5 broke somehow. It was buggy to begin with.

[Guest]

Been a problem for the entire time I've used firefox. Although it has yet to eat all my memory.

Currently using 113MB of memory with 4 tabs open.

[M1th]

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/ben/archives/009749.html

set browser.sessionhistory.max_total_viewers to 0... see if it'll help.


5 tabs open with lots of extensions installed... 85MB usage.

[DirectPixel]

Don't we all just LOVE digg?

[M1th]

Don't we all just LOVE digg?

Shh.

[Vile]

Try an OS with proper memory management

How amusing…a person unaware & uneducated about a topic, simply ranting based on their biased views.

As good as FF is, this was a known issue with FF that many people have had.

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=903863

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=131456

http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=989510

[thethethe]

So many browsers have a bit of memory leaks... now I'm starting to complain about IE7 (Internet Explorer 7) Beta 2!

(After 2 hours, the memory usage diaplays at least 246,081k memory usage)

[Zachery]

I've been using it for the past few days and have noticed no significant increase in ram/vm usage.

I used to have 5-9 windows open and possibly 3-4 seperate IE processes. This used to consume 100~ mb all togher, I've been working with the same window since 10 am this morning, ranging from 10+ tabs to be opened to now 3. IE is using 42mb active memory and 35 in the VM.

[thethethe]

I try opening 10 tabs (almost each day, a few for the news, some for mesage boards) and still feel it got slower.... probably I am using Authorware in some cases and maybe Shockwave player at some point, but even without it, I feel it slowing down my computer.

(Yes, I understand I am running 123 Flash Chat server too, but that's a whole different story)

[Quillz]

I was using Windowblinds at the time of the screenshot (a month or two ago). Now I'm just using the Windows Classic theme built into Windows XP given Windowblinds 5 broke somehow. It was buggy to begin with.

I used WindowBlinds for a while, but didn't like the added startup tasks it added. I much prefer to simply modify my uxtheme.dll theme, so I can run WB themes, as well.

[DirectPixel]

I used WindowBlinds for a while, but didn't like the added startup tasks it added. I much prefer to simply modify my uxtheme.dll theme, so I can run WB themes, as well.

I didn't realize it was possible for uxtheme to run WB themes? Even the new WB5?

AFAIK, you can only run Visual Styles, not WB skins...

[ManagerJosh]

So many browsers have a bit of memory leaks... now I'm starting to complain about IE7 (Internet Explorer 7) Beta 2!

(After 2 hours, the memory usage diaplays at least 246,081k memory usage)

But IE7 is in Beta 2 . You willingly and knowingly took the risk by installing it.

But we have Firefox here claiming it's stable when in reality these memory leaks are sinking our computers