Curmudgeonly & Skeptical presents Boned Jello: Firefox Memory Leak

Thursday, March 27, 2008

Firefox Memory Leak

“

I won't have to worry about putting gas in my car,
I won't have to worry about paying my mortgage,
you know, if I help him, he's gonna help me.

”

Good lord. It appears that blood will run in the streets IF Obama is elected, and Peggy Joseph figures things out.

Rodger the Real King of France 3/27/2008 06:50:00 PM 18 Comments

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18 comments:

Anonymous said...: uhhh why are you surfing with the administrator account?
check out http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=4196
and try the noscript addon it helped me.; 3/27/08, 7:01 PM
AnnoyedOne said...: I've always maintained that major software writers own large amount of stock in semiconductor manufacturers (i.e the people that make RAM chips).

I write (embedded) applications that fit in kilobytes of space yet Microsoft Vista takes 1GB of RAM just to run (no applications running).; 3/27/08, 7:11 PM
Anonymous said...: Opera is the best; 3/27/08, 7:17 PM
Anonymous said...: ...that major software writers...
A1, make that bloatware writers...
Lt. Col. gen. Tailgunner dick; 3/27/08, 8:29 PM
Anonymous said...: Firefox does that to me all the fookin time. Pisses me off to no end. You want to really lock up the pc? Have Firefox AND IE open at the same time. Your PC will become a true tablet - like the enscribed kind.; 3/27/08, 8:59 PM
Bob Hawkins said...: Supposedly the version of FireFox that's currently in beta, 3.x, doesn't leak nearly so badly. So hang in there.; 3/27/08, 9:01 PM
Anonymous said...: No, I don't have that problem - at all. FF is using 137k right now and IE is using 60k.

I leave both open all day - with multiple tabs (and ie acting as a music player). Also, I don't shut my PC off, I only put it to sleep when I walk away.

The only time I reboot is when a game I am playing crashes. And that's less than once a month.

I run a pretty lean startup - AVG, VPN, Sync, etc. I hate most of it, so I turn most things off.

Oh, my FF has AdBlockPlus installed.; 3/27/08, 9:14 PM
Anonymous said...: Jon, please 'splain to me how you are unaffected by the problems the rest of are. I'm serious - not being a smart ass. Is your PC set up in a certain way that ours are not?; 3/27/08, 9:24 PM
Anonymous said...: I've got FF using 88k and it's playing tunes using the Foxy Tunes extension. I don't have any problems using FF & IE simultaneously. Of course this will all change now that I've opened my big mouth. (System crash in 3...2...1....); 3/27/08, 11:11 PM
Anonymous said...: Possibly one of the Firefox add-ons has the leak, not the browser itself. Disable any that you don't really use.

If that doesn't work, try disabling them one at a time to find the culprit.

If it's the browser itself, just quit it every once in a while.

rockville; 3/27/08, 11:40 PM
Anonymous said...: You're complaining about a paltry 600mb of usage? Ha! I've caught Firefox burning over a gig with two tabs actively open. I don't install funky themes, just Ad-block, scriptblocker, etc. hell, I don't even have Shockwave/Flash installed in Firefox.

It's only saving grace when it kills my machine is that it's smart enough to re-open all the tabs I had open at crash.; 3/28/08, 7:31 AM
Anonymous said...: Has yer Majesty considered Opera?

M; 3/28/08, 9:24 AM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: Can Opera be installed and used when needed?; 3/28/08, 9:52 AM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: Oh, sorry. Opera is a browser, right? I was thinking alternative OS.; 3/28/08, 9:53 AM
Anonymous said...: Earlier complaints about FF's memory management problems strongly suggest that it IS NOT a problem with add-ons. And you're not the only one with issues with the current iteration. I'm seeing FF lock up after ~20 mins of use, or when I leave the 'puter for ~10 minutes.

Allegedly, the Beta 3 version seems to be a lot more reliable so if you're not opposed to running a beta browser that might be the right answer (normal disclaimers apply). I'm looking for a download link for the beta right now.; 3/28/08, 2:35 PM
Anonymous said...: Rodge, guys.

The new Firefox is the goods! Faster with some subtle features you will notice with time. Like a refresh on a long blog comments will just add stuff at the end, witouth the flicker.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

- PrivateRadio; 3/28/08, 3:06 PM
BobG said...: My Firefox is only using 268K, and that's with quite a few add-ons. I'm running it on Win XP, since I refuse to use that kludge they call Vista.; 3/28/08, 3:45 PM
Rodger the Real King of France said...: I just installed it Private Radio ... took all of 5 minutes start to finish. My first impression is that it now has Speed and "feel" of IE; 3/28/08, 9:27 PM

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Firefox Memory Leak

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