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Feek
30-09-2006, 00:18
I noticed my instance of Firefox (latest patched version) was using about 180Mb of RAM. This seems a lot.

Closed and reopened and it's sitting at 78Mb and slowly rising. I have around 20 tabs open.

Does it have a known leak? If so, is there any fix apart from closing and reopening?
Mark
30-09-2006, 00:21
Firefox has always leaked a bit. They claim it's something to do with cacheing, but frankly I (and a lot of others) don't buy it.

I've also had 1.5.0.7 crash a few times. 1.5.0.6 was fine but it auto-updated.
rich99
30-09-2006, 00:28
Mine's using 488MB currently with only 5 tabs open - peaked at 512MB sometime since this morning when I opened the first tab
I usually try to close it a few times during the day to keep it under control but don't think I've done that at all today :o

1.5.0.7 here also - will close it and re-open all the tabs and see what I get


edit: using 63MB now, more than a little leaky then it would seem :p
edit2: just remembered that I was playing a java based game earlier - probably accounts for a lot of the mess
Mark
30-09-2006, 01:17
Oh yes, Java will do that for you. That'll be somewhat lazy garbage collection.
rich99
30-09-2006, 02:04
Oh yes, Java will do that for you. That'll be somewhat lazy garbage collection.

yep I can believe that - most of these games are "programmed" quite badly :undecided:
Daz
30-09-2006, 11:20
More extensions tend to make the leak worse, but yeah, FF has had memory leak issues from the first release candidates.
Flibster
30-09-2006, 13:11
FF is a buggy piece of crap tbh. Can't see the appeal.

More serious issues this year than IE. I'll stick with Opera tbh. Although IE7 is very nice to use.

Simon/~Flibster
Mark
30-09-2006, 13:26
What you think about Firefox, I think about Opera.
Haly
30-09-2006, 13:27
What you think about Firefox, I think about Opera.

Same here :D
Feek
30-09-2006, 16:36
I used Opera quite a while ago but found that as it matured, I stopped liking it. Switched to FF and much preferred it. About six months ago I tried Opera again and really disliked it.

IE7 is plain awful.
killerkebab
30-09-2006, 16:56
My firefox generally uses less than 50MB, but if I browse the net on the same window for a few hours (I generally don't keep the program open for more than 20 minutes at a time before I go off for a game of something) it will just rise and rise. Its almost as if it doesn't let go of resources it isn't using anymore, but I don't know anything about that side of computers.