Firefox 8.01 Mem Usage into the Stratosphere - Any Ideas?

[Beck]

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[sailorman]

Same here, but currently close to a gig. Only does it on my Windows 7 laptop, not on my Vista PC, thought I don't know if that's relevant. I shut it down every now and then to free up memory. I also get asyncronous typing, eg., characters appear on the screen behind the keystrokes; annoying. Hoping there's a bug fix, I've never had the problem before.[ATTACH=CONFIG]340919[/ATTACH]

[deanmass]

The Security Now! podcast had a bit about this last week- memory leak in some of the plugins, or something cached. But, this is like the 4th version of Firefox to have this issue. I have dumped it in favor of Chrome.

[Jimbroni]

Seems like a year ago I was on FF 3.???.

 

Now all of sudden they are going thru major revision levels faster than a Kardashian marriage.

 

Seriously what are they doing over there?

 

I installed Firefox 7.??? about a month ago on my newest Win 7 build, and IMO it works very well. Browsing is way faster than what I had with XP and 3.??.

 

I'm just curious, why all the changes. I understand incremental change for security and bugs, but 5 major rev changes in less than a year seems like something is out of whack.

[Anderton]

Remember - it's the even-numbered updates that are always jinxed

[Philter]

 

Seems like a year ago I was on FF 3.???. Now all of sudden they are going thru major revision levels faster than a Kardashian marriage. Seriously what are they doing over there? I installed Firefox 7.??? about a month ago on my newest Win 7 build, and IMO it works very well. Browsing is way faster than what I had with XP and 3.??. I'm just curious, why all the changes. I understand incremental change for security and bugs, but 5 major rev changes in less than a year seems like something is out of whack.

 

I stopped updating at Firefox 3.6. Firefox 4 was a dog.

 

The major number changes doesn't mean what it used to. They decided to move to a naming scheme that was more in line with what the mobile browsers were doing.

 

I'm going to hold off updating as long as I can and then consider switching browsers. Right now 3.6 is working great for me.

[Philter]

I

[Phait]

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/111065/Hands_on_A_look_at_Firefox_s_memory_issues?taxonomyId=86&pageNumber=2

 

http://lifehacker.com/5687850/speed-up-firefox-by-moving-your-cache-to-ram-no-ram-disk-required

[A. Einstein]

Remember - it's the even-numbered updates that are always jinxed

 

and I love the stratosphere,

 

stratosphere has been bery bery good to me!

[veracohr]

Wow, I had 235MB and 1.19GB virtual memory on OS 10.5.8. That was more than the kernel_task. Quit Firefox, restarted, 66MB to begin, went up to 91MB fairly quickly and seems to be slowly creeping up now.

[Beck]

Thanks for the comments and links so far. I think I'll call firefox and tell them I want my money back! Why are browsers free anyway?

 

I notice plugin-containers are back in 8.01 as well, and I had gotten rid of that junk in earlier versions. I was having problems before in 7.something as well. It wasn

[sailorman]

I disabled the comcast constant guard add on and the memory usage is around 125-175K and stable. Funny, I don't remember installing that thing Considering what a POS their email app is, I shouldn't be surprised.

[Philter]

Yeah to be fair, you have to take a look at the addons you're running.

[UstadKhanAli]

Opera is supposed to be a really light browser. I don't know how good it is or how secure it is considered, but it may be worth looking into.

[Inazone]

Opera is fantastic. It has been my browser of choice for a few years now, and the only reason I keep Firefox around is because some sites (band webmail, Yahoo, a few others) don't support Opera. My personal experience has been that Javascript is the source (or at least the "enabler") for most spyware, and Opera has a "Quick Settings" menu that lets you disable Javascript, cookies, plug-ins and other miscellaneous stuff without having to sift through pages of settings. My XP box has never been so secure, and Opera is indeed light on system resources.

[Beck]

I only had one add-on... that is that I actually added on knowingly. It was called deskcut, and added the IE like feature of being able to right click and save Internet links to the desktop. The regular way of adding favorites/bookmarking never worked for me. Strange to me after all this time firefox doesn't do that without a third party thing.

[elsongs]

Yeah, here's the solution: https://www.google.com/chrome/

[veracohr]

I've been thinking about going Chrome. I downloaded it and it seems good, but I've been using Firefox so long I have everything set just how I want it.

[Beck]

Just an update. Tonight I was on facebook with a few windows open, chatting and inboxing. I opened a youtube video and boom! My pc did a hard reboot with no warning and I had to sit there waiting for the file check and all that before getting back on. I'm still messing with memory settings and whatnot from the links here. Time for Dr. Watson maybe. I don't even have it installed... guess I better.