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Firefox memory leak - Anyone have a good fix?
OK, well... as you know, Firefox has some important memory leaks. It has hit over 1 GB in my RAM countless times. I've heard of fixes to it... Like this one: http://www.detector-pro.com/2008/04/how-to-fix-firefox-memory-leak-... but couldn't find the exact keys.
I just want to know if someone has something good to share about this.
Thank you all!
I just want to know if someone has something good to share about this.
Thank you all!
Tags: Firefox, Mozilla, RAM, fix, leak, memory, solution
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Permalink Reply by TyphoidKitten on -
...Google Chrome?
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Permalink Reply by Tyler Brown on -
haha! Love that response! =P
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Permalink Reply by Maxime J on -
hehe :)
Yeah, well many sites weren't supported when I tried it less than a month ago.
Plus I'm waiting for it to be released for Linux..
I thought trying it with Wine, but anyway, it misses some basic features I like on Firefox.
So I stay away for now... I must say it's the first product that really deceived me from Google, but it's very promising. I hope they make it more complete soon!
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Permalink Reply by Maxime J on
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Software takes a lot, pages not... But let it opened for a week and you should be over 1 GB.
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Permalink Reply by Dean on -
I haven't had firefox really leak ram in a while. The last time, someone suggested that it was a poorly written extension and to uninstall them all and see how it goes, then reinstall them one by one until offending extensions are identified. I suppose it could also be a multimedia plugin... or it could be as you suspected and I'm wrong.
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Permalink Reply by Maxime J on
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I don't know the cause of this memory leak, but I have no extension at all... so I guess that's not it.
I also had the same problem with 3 different versions on 2 different OS. So I guess that's not the version or the OS either.
At the moment, I have 2 tabs opened and it takes 867 MB ... that's insane. Thinking about trying Chrome through Wine.
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Permalink Reply by implying implications on -
try closing it and reopening it............ i shut my pc off at night so i never had an issue.
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Permalink Reply by Maxime J on
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Yeah, that's what I do at the moment... I restart it each couple of days when it gets around 700 MB to 1.1 GB in RAM... But I wouldn't be supposed to do that. Always planning which tab I need to clear its history and create a new tab with the most recent page in it, close the other one, close as many as I can, bookmark some, restart, reopen a couple of them.. 30 min later 10+ tabs opened again, Firefox going up in RAM.. that's just not right. I know they said they worked on it recently... but that's still a major problem. I can't believe I run out of TWO GIGABYTES of RAM with only the OS and Firefox... >./body>
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Permalink Reply by HilariousFilms on -
I'd go for Safari.
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Permalink Reply by Maxime J on
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I recently tried (almost all at the same time) Safari, Chrome, Maxthon, Opera, Firefox... and was there one more?...
Safari is fun... but Firefox really stayed my favorite one while Chrome would be my second choice for speed (but it isn't ready for regular use IMO).
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Permalink Reply by Greg De Santis on -
The only two that you didn't mention that I use is one based off of FireFox = Flock 2.5.2 ( http://www.flock.com/ )and one based off of Chrome = SRWare Iron 3.0.197.0 (http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_download.php ).
If you have not tried them, they are certainly worth taking a look at.
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