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Just me or is Firefox leaking memory like a firehose?

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    Try Flashblock[^]. Flash is a bit of a pig, but unfortunately it's used all over the place now for ads. Flashblock lets you click to load animations that you really want, while blocking them by default.

    -- modified by I Hax Life!! on 16:20 Friday 13th Smarch, 2038

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    charlieg
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    Is that going to block all of the cool CP ads? :) I really like Firefox - though it leaks, it is far more stable than IE7. I upgrade IE7 on a whim based on security issues. So, I allegedly have a more secure browser, but it is flakey and a bloated pig. Such is life...:^)

    Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams

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      Is that going to block all of the cool CP ads? :) I really like Firefox - though it leaks, it is far more stable than IE7. I upgrade IE7 on a whim based on security issues. So, I allegedly have a more secure browser, but it is flakey and a bloated pig. Such is life...:^)

      Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams

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      Shog9 0
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      charlieg wrote:

      Is that going to block all of the cool CP ads?

      Some of them. You just get a big icon in their place, so you can always click it if you want to see the ad. I'm not trying to be dumping on ads or ad-supported sites, but Flash has... problems. Especially in Firefox.

      -- modified by I Hax Life!! on 16:20 Friday 13th Smarch, 2038

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        I'm running the latest firefox - 5 tabs up at the moment: 3 at codeproject (yes, I am addicted), one at sourceforge, and the last at a t-short place (long story). In the time it has taken to type this query - about 2 minutes - firefox has grown by 1mb in mem usage. Do you Firefox users see the same thing? On the weekends, I'll leave my laptop up the entire time - Firefox grows to almost 200MB. As for IE7, ewwwwwww. I upgraded from 6.0, and it crashes more now...

        Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams

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        Kevin McFarlane
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        charlieg wrote:

        Do you Firefox users see the same thing?

        Yes. And the memory leak is a commonly reported problem in FF. There is also an argument that it's not a leak but a feature. Another argument is that it's caused by extensions.

        charlieg wrote:

        As for IE7, ewwwwwww. I upgraded from 6.0, and it crashes more now...

        It is still a Beta. Though, as it's very close to release this is somewhat disconcerting!

        Kevin

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        • C charlieg

          I'm running the latest firefox - 5 tabs up at the moment: 3 at codeproject (yes, I am addicted), one at sourceforge, and the last at a t-short place (long story). In the time it has taken to type this query - about 2 minutes - firefox has grown by 1mb in mem usage. Do you Firefox users see the same thing? On the weekends, I'll leave my laptop up the entire time - Firefox grows to almost 200MB. As for IE7, ewwwwwww. I upgraded from 6.0, and it crashes more now...

          Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams

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          Nemanja Trifunovic
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          A sad thing is that one cannot find a really good web browser on Windows platform. Opera is good but too many sites don't support it; IE is insecure and unstable; FF is a memory-leaking bloatware...

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            I'm running the latest firefox - 5 tabs up at the moment: 3 at codeproject (yes, I am addicted), one at sourceforge, and the last at a t-short place (long story). In the time it has taken to type this query - about 2 minutes - firefox has grown by 1mb in mem usage. Do you Firefox users see the same thing? On the weekends, I'll leave my laptop up the entire time - Firefox grows to almost 200MB. As for IE7, ewwwwwww. I upgraded from 6.0, and it crashes more now...

            Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams

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            Anton Afanasyev
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            charlieg wrote:

            As for IE7, ewwwwwww. I upgraded from 6.0, and it crashes more now...

            Never had any crashes with it, but do get slowdowns when sometimes switching tabs. heh, ever notice how many different reviews M$ products get? for some its nerly perfect, for others its a reason to reboot the computer....


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              I'm running the latest firefox - 5 tabs up at the moment: 3 at codeproject (yes, I am addicted), one at sourceforge, and the last at a t-short place (long story). In the time it has taken to type this query - about 2 minutes - firefox has grown by 1mb in mem usage. Do you Firefox users see the same thing? On the weekends, I'll leave my laptop up the entire time - Firefox grows to almost 200MB. As for IE7, ewwwwwww. I upgraded from 6.0, and it crashes more now...

              Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams

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              JWood
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              Just you. Do you happen to work for Microsoft? In the propaganda division?


              A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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                Just you. Do you happen to work for Microsoft? In the propaganda division?


                A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
                -H.L. Mencken

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                charlieg
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                JWood - are you being sarcastic/funny? If you are, haha, but if you are not, Lord no, I don't work for MS, and I certainly am not plugging one browser over another... they all have their warts. I was just astonished at how much memory was leaking from FF. As for IE7, well, IE has been crashing for me since 5.x, so it isn't anything new. And IE *does* consume HUGE amounts of memory... simple observations -- ymmv.

                Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams

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                • J JWood

                  Just you. Do you happen to work for Microsoft? In the propaganda division?


                  A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
                  -H.L. Mencken

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                  Nish Nishant
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                  JWood wrote:

                  Just you. Do you happen to work for Microsoft? In the propaganda division?

                  Yeah, that's why he talked bad about IE. :rolleyes:

                  Regards, Nish


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                  • J JWood

                    Just you. Do you happen to work for Microsoft? In the propaganda division?


                    A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
                    -H.L. Mencken

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                    David Wulff
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                    Again, it is hard to tell if you are really being serious here, but if so:

                    JWood wrote:

                    Just you

                    Hardly. I have never noticed it -- I am an obsessive-compulsive closer of windows that I am no longer using and never have more than 4-5 (average 2) open at a time so tabbed browsing doesn't appeal to me. I do however have many friends who, in the politest possible sense, have absolutely appalling browsing habits so they are all using Firefox for 'smallest target' security reasons. One friend is the complete opposite of myself and has upwards of twenty browser windows all tracking different sites/threads that are saved to be restored when the browser/computer restarts. If we are chatting over IM of an evening he will often go offline for a 'cleanup' because all the memory on has machine has been used up and absolutely everything is slowed down while memory is paged back and forth. You can tell when it is getting bad because his IM status keeps switching from offline to online till you have a screen full of alerts. He is at the extreme of the leak problems I've heard of - I won't go near his computer because I would only end up confiscating it - but other friends have complained that their computers run slower after they have been surfing the net for a while, even after they close down Firefox. Whether it is linked to extensions or not, the problem is with Firefox itself. It shouldn't allow bad things to happen to a users system. After all, isn't that the whole problem with Internet Explorer?


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                      JWood wrote:

                      Just you. Do you happen to work for Microsoft? In the propaganda division?

                      Yeah, that's why he talked bad about IE. :rolleyes:

                      Regards, Nish


                      Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
                      Currently working on C++/CLI in Action for Manning Publications. Also visit the Ultimate Toolbox blog

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                      charlieg
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                      Thanks Nish, thought I missed something in his post....

                      Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams

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                      • C charlieg

                        I'm running the latest firefox - 5 tabs up at the moment: 3 at codeproject (yes, I am addicted), one at sourceforge, and the last at a t-short place (long story). In the time it has taken to type this query - about 2 minutes - firefox has grown by 1mb in mem usage. Do you Firefox users see the same thing? On the weekends, I'll leave my laptop up the entire time - Firefox grows to almost 200MB. As for IE7, ewwwwwww. I upgraded from 6.0, and it crashes more now...

                        Charlie Gilley Will program for food... Whoever said children were cheaper by the dozen... lied. My son's PDA is an M249 SAW. My other son commutes in an M1A2 Abrams

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                        Kant
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                        Firefox works great for me. I upgraded to 2.0 RC1. BTW, the memory leaks in Firefox depends upon what kind of extensions you installed.

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                          Firefox works great for me. I upgraded to 2.0 RC1. BTW, the memory leaks in Firefox depends upon what kind of extensions you installed.

                          రవికాంత్

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                          _alank
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                          I only have Dom Inspector and FFClickOnce installed and I still get a leak but it still uses less memory then IE 7. So I just take the good with the bad and have IE 7 around for MS specific stuff like OWA, Project Server and Sharepoint...

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                          • J JWood

                            Just you. Do you happen to work for Microsoft? In the propaganda division?


                            A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
                            -H.L. Mencken

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                            Lost User
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                            Microsoft? Propaganda? Isnt that a contradiction? Like saying muslim and propaganda together, it makes yourself seem like a person in a mental facility.

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                              Try Flashblock[^]. Flash is a bit of a pig, but unfortunately it's used all over the place now for ads. Flashblock lets you click to load animations that you really want, while blocking them by default.

                              -- modified by I Hax Life!! on 16:20 Friday 13th Smarch, 2038

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                              leppie
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                              Whats worse are those Flash adverts that take up half of your precious CPU power :(

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                              • S Shog9 0

                                Try Flashblock[^]. Flash is a bit of a pig, but unfortunately it's used all over the place now for ads. Flashblock lets you click to load animations that you really want, while blocking them by default.

                                -- modified by I Hax Life!! on 16:20 Friday 13th Smarch, 2038

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                                Flash is bad.

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                                • D David Wulff

                                  Again, it is hard to tell if you are really being serious here, but if so:

                                  JWood wrote:

                                  Just you

                                  Hardly. I have never noticed it -- I am an obsessive-compulsive closer of windows that I am no longer using and never have more than 4-5 (average 2) open at a time so tabbed browsing doesn't appeal to me. I do however have many friends who, in the politest possible sense, have absolutely appalling browsing habits so they are all using Firefox for 'smallest target' security reasons. One friend is the complete opposite of myself and has upwards of twenty browser windows all tracking different sites/threads that are saved to be restored when the browser/computer restarts. If we are chatting over IM of an evening he will often go offline for a 'cleanup' because all the memory on has machine has been used up and absolutely everything is slowed down while memory is paged back and forth. You can tell when it is getting bad because his IM status keeps switching from offline to online till you have a screen full of alerts. He is at the extreme of the leak problems I've heard of - I won't go near his computer because I would only end up confiscating it - but other friends have complained that their computers run slower after they have been surfing the net for a while, even after they close down Firefox. Whether it is linked to extensions or not, the problem is with Firefox itself. It shouldn't allow bad things to happen to a users system. After all, isn't that the whole problem with Internet Explorer?


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                                  Dan Neely
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                                  20 open tabs. Piker. :) My home copy of Opera probably averages 30 something. I've got ~2 dozen always opens, and until it gets to about 40 the tab bar isn't cluttered enough to bother doing a cleanup.

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                                    20 open tabs. Piker. :) My home copy of Opera probably averages 30 something. I've got ~2 dozen always opens, and until it gets to about 40 the tab bar isn't cluttered enough to bother doing a cleanup.

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                                    Dfygrvty
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                                    I've left pandora.com open for 3 days straight and hit 400 Mb on FF. It stayed there, and never really went passed. Much longer and my computer starts to lock up though, even though there is more ram to be had if needed. No I haven't checked if IE does any better with the same application. meh.

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